I remember reading about this 1992 Mikiko Noda（野田幹子）album "Cute" while I was reading through my "Obscure City Pop CDs" book in a freezing Castle Frank subway station in downtown Toronto one February night in 2024 before meeting up with Larry Chan for dinner. It's not easy leafing through a fairly thick tome with gloves on, let me tell you that. But it was from reading on that particular album that I posted up the snazzy first track "Kakete Miyou"（駆けてみよう）, a really nice sophisticated pop tune.
Then, recently, I encountered this lovely mid-tempo track from the same album. "Kono Eki kara" (From This Station) was written by Mayumi Horikawa（堀川まゆみ）and composed by Hiroshi Sato（佐藤博）, and like a lot of songs that I do like, it's got a number of genres mixed into it: soul (quiet storm), jazz and pop. Of course, I'm a sucker for some of that keyboard work...maybe done by Sato himself...and the bluesy guitar solo. I don't think I'm exaggerating too much if I can say that "Kono Eki kara" could be the musical equivalent of a a really smooth Godiva chocolate bar.
The powers that be have made sure that I am unable to see this video regardless of whether I try from the blog or whether I hop over to YouTube! There is even a very redundant disclaimer: Video Unavailable. This video is not available. Well, I can find a number of 野田幹子 songs and performances on YouTube, but for whatever reason I cannot find この駅から, by her, I can find この駅から sung by other singers.
ReplyDeleteThat's too bad about Japan not allowing those videos to be seen. The video comes from the channel "Mikiko Noda -- Topic" and provided by Sony Music. I think it's the latter organization responsible for spoiling the party.
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