Around 5 1/2 years ago, I posted an article regarding "Kanariya"（カナリヤ）by singer-songwriter Tamao Koike（小池玉緒）. I didn't know and frankly still don't know a whole heck of a lot about her aside from the fact that she hails from Tokyo alongside the information that she had released a couple of singles in the early 1980s along with one original album in 1992.
Koike has contributed her fair share of songs though on various compilations with different singers, mostly under the YEN label, a recording company created by Yellow Magic Orchestra's Yukihiro Takahashi（高橋幸宏）and Haruomi Hosono（細野晴臣）, itself under the aegis of Alfa Records. One of those compilations is "YEN BOX VOL.2" which is a massive collection of 18 CDs released in December 1996. "Kanariya" itself is a track on Disc 18 which has a mix of previously unreleased songs by Koike and karaoke versions of songs by other artists such as Miharu Koshi（越美晴）.
For this article, I have "Sexanova" which sounds like the perfect title for a punk or post-punk/New Romantic song of the 1980s, and as I mentioned for "Kanariya", perhaps "Sexanova" is something that had been created back in, let's say, 1983 for the sake of argument. Written and composed by the late Toshio Nakanishi（中西俊夫）of the New Wave band The Plastics, the song is actually a light and smooth tropical tune with Koike's vocals nicely bouncing about after having a couple of margaritas. You can even hear some water lapping on the shore along with some ungulate bleating away.
Like Zard who came after 小池玉緒 started off as a model, become singer, and then a legend (a living one).
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