I was doing my usual browsing through "Obscure City Pop CDs 1986-2006" and found this one entry showing an album with a young well-to-do fellow making like a character from "Miami Vice" as he enjoyed his tropical life while standing by his white convertible. The fellow is singer-songwriter Koichi Kawamura（川村康一）and the album is his May 1989 debut "Have a Good-Time" and he certainly looks like he's having one.
One track is "Out Of The Night" and although I'm not sure if it's a City Pop tune, I think it feels like a summery AOR song, fitting for that album cover. Written and composed by Kawamura, there's a really breezy and bluesy guitar this side of George Benson helping the singer along with his story of the good life. Have a good time, indeed.
Kawamura hails from Tokyo and his music career had begun in the early 1980s with the rock bands MOZANBEEK and HOO-CHII-KOO before he embarked on a solo career from 1984. Basically, his release of singles and albums started in 1989 and he's continuing to release material now including his latest album "Magical Pop Tracks" which only came out a few weeks ago.
Hello, I'm glad to hear that we are reading the same book.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the content of this book, I used to collect production videos and upload them to YouTube a few years ago. Unfortunately, my YouTube account was later deleted due to copyright reasons. I had to transfer the content to Bilibili instead.
I created around 300 videos related to the content of the book. Later on, I used Bilibili's article feature to organize them by chronological order.
Here are the relevant links:
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv41673836/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv41673793/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv41673714/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv41647919/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv41700937/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv42312044/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv42189348/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv42143235/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv42142886/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv42075153/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv41749994/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv41749930/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv41749888/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv41749768/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv41750044/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv41761047/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv42001192/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv42001164/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv42001116/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv42001222/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv42001242/
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv42483552/
Glad to read that you've also been perusing the same guide all this time. Sorry to hear that your YouTube channel has been deleted but I'm not surprised...the powers-that-be do go on search-and-destroy missions from time to time.
DeleteYouTube made this video completely unavailable both on this blog and at YouTube. BUT someone else uploaded this song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRWZsPdrJEQ, and so I got a chance to listen to it. This song has those late 80's vides and maybe very early 1990's kind of reminds me of Milli Vanilli.
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