Well, it's about this time of year that folks in Toronto will be heading out on Fridays for some food, beer and good company on the patios of restaurants. Luckily, with a transit strike averted, many people will be even more energized to do so now. It's possible that I may be doing this as well in the next several days if our plans pan out; it will involve many skewers of yakitori.🐔
Anyways, I found out this song by singer-songwriter Rie Aono（青野りえ）who's been keeping the Neo-City Pop sounds nice and healthy. It was a few years ago that I first discovered her brand of music which had me posting her "Rain Rain" from her 2022 album "Rain or Shine". I've got another track that I actually first heard on a compilation somewhere else on YouTube but happily, it has its own video. With lyrics by Aono and music by Yoshihiko Seki（関美彦）, "Waiting for you" is a groovy and dreamy tune that mixes in a bit of jazz and rock with the City Pop as opposed to "Rain Rain" which adds Latin and R&B along with some jazz there. It's all pretty listening on a Friday night.
"Neo-city pop"? I either haven't heard of this term or more likely I simply did not pay attention to the term it was used. Either way I am going to keep this term in mind from now!
ReplyDeleteStrangely enough, the term even has its own article on J-Wiki. Ironically, the man who has been seen to have led this genre starting from the 2000s, Cunimondo Takiguchi from the band Ryusenkei, has never enjoyed being given that label probably because he thinks that it's an unoriginal label for fresh music.
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