The last time I wrote about Ritsuko Kazami（風見律子）, it was for the mysterious and panther-y "Yoru no Subete"（夜のすべて）from her 1985 debut album "Kiss of Fire". It has quite the bass synthesizer thrumming throughout the song which seems to have some of that City Pop and some of that throwback exotic kayo.
Well, another track from "Kiss of Fire" is "Karui Kankei" (Slight Connection) which takes things a little more into the blippity-bloppity technopop while filtering some chugging train-like jazz rhythm. Not surprisingly, words and music were provided by Haruo Chikada（近田春夫）who knows something about the eclectic stuff. Some nice harmonizing between Kazami and who I think is Chikada himself on background vocals.
Yamaha RX-11.
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Yes it is, but it's rarely heard both in Western and Japanese music. If you listen to late Soviet (or Eastern European) pop/rock/dance songs from 1985-89, you could hear it a lot. 90% percent of music from perestroika-ara USSR used the RX machines.
DeleteHello, YMOfan04. Speaking of those Soviet dance songs, I was listening to those bands that you recommended to me several weeks ago. Considering my impressions of the Soviet Union and their society back then, I was surprised to hear how free and imaginative their take on dance music was with some of the bands. I'd been afraid that the KGB was out to get them.😊
DeleteThis is a bit epic and it sounds like the bgm to some 1980's adventure movie.
ReplyDeleteHello, Brian. I'd probably go even further back and say that with an older arrangement, it could even adorn a 1940s adventure movie.
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