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Friday, October 17, 2025

Native Son -- Super Safari(スーパー・サファリ)

 


I would have thought that a song with that title would have the band standing in front of a well-worn jeep in the middle of some vast savannah with a ton of animals such as elephants and tigers.

Well, such as it is, we have here the fusion band Native Son(ネイティブ・サン)gallivanting on a beach somewhere on the cover of their 1979 single "Super Safari". Composed by central member and keyboardist Takehiro Honda(本田竹広), it's a footloose and fancy-free tune that could make for the accompanying theme for any good-hearted if bumbling detective on a Japanese suspense-thriller. Kinda nice to have the boys back since it's been over three years since I last wrote about them back in 2022.

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