For a brief period in my childhood, I had a fascination with labyrinths or mazes whether they showed up in puzzle books or in huge parks. So, you could imagine that one of my favourite old-timey game shows from the 1970s was "The Money Maze" which was hosted by Nick Clooney who was none other than George Clooney's father. You'd be surprised at how much faster a human being could be over a mouse when $10,000 is involved.
I recollect that there was a Hall & Oates' song "Method of Modern Love" which was a big hit in the mid-1980s. Strangely enough, I've come across this opening track from jazz singer Eri Ohno's（大野えり）1985 album "L'eveil" (Awakening) which is titled "Maze of Modern Love". I think a maze of modern love would be truly messy and complicated (more so than a method) but I'll just leave it at that.
Written and composed by Joe Rinoie under his pseudonym of（李家毅）, "Maze of Modern Love" has some of that City Pop but I think it also makes use of some of those upbeat American pop arrangements of that particular time in the 1980s. I keep thinking of Melissa Manchester and Madonna because of those rhythms.
李家毅 is Takeshi Rinoie AKA Joe or Joseph Rinoie — one of the other songs he wrote for Eri Ohno's L'eveil was covered in 1986 by Shizuko Izumi on a (quite good) private-press EP/mini-album called Melting Midnight that he also produced and his name is rendered in romaji on that record's credits. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks very much, ourplesound, for correcting me there. Joe Rinoie has got a couple of articles on the blog, so I'll have to make some adjustments right now.
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