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Welcome to June! Perhaps though I should sarcastically say something like "Welcome to November!" because the temperatures don't really reflect late spring or early summer. Yup, it's chilly out there.
A few years ago, I put up this article for the Les 5-4-3-2-1 cover of the immortal "Bond Street", originally created by Burt Bacharach in 1967, and it was a track on the 1996 compilation "Sushi 3003 - A Spectacular Collection Of Japanese Clubpop". I don't know much about what Japanese club pop is, but hey, Shibuya-kei is something I know a little about.
Regardless, the final track on "Sushi 3003" is a pretty hip-swiveling number called "Kiss" by now-retired actress/singer Chiharu Iwamoto（岩本千春）who was active in the geinokai between 1986 and 2015. In 1990, she released her one-and-only album "Kagami"（かがみ...Mirrors） and that's where "Kiss" originated. Written and composed by Pizzicato Five's Yasuharu Konishi（小西康陽）, "Kiss" is a martini-friendly lounge number with a nice dollop of Latin here and a spritzer of jazz trumpet there. Plus, Iwamoto provides the nearly de rigueur kittenish voice popular in Shibuya-kei. Also, what about those irresistible bongo drums at one point? It's almost enough to get me up to cut a rug.
It is about 14 °C degrees today and believe it or not some people have already complained that they are feeling hot. It is easy for me to catch a cold this time a year because this when people start blasting the air condition on high even though they do not need it in my opinion. But then again in my home town back where I am originally from it is already 35 °C.
ReplyDeleteWe're currently at about 12 degrees C at 11 pm, so not too bad. For those people who feel hot at 14, I can't recommend them to visit Tokyo in the next few months. They'd melt!
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