I may have mentioned this before but singer-songwriter Yuko Kawai（河合夕子）was someone that I discovered because of my work on the blog and the good folks at YouTube. Did not know of her existence in all my years in Japan. My impression of her thus far is that she was one of the more eclectic and fun-loving singers out in the pop field when it came to her showmanship and compositions.
Case in point: her "Persian Rouge", a track from her June 1983 4th and final album to date "Fumin Shoukougun"（不眠症候群）which basically means "Insomnia". She was behind words and music with Masao Urino（売野雅勇）also helping out on the lyrics, and "Persian Rouge" has that playful mix of technopop and exotic kayo as if Kawai was out on the Silk Road somewhere with her synthesizer and a camel.
About 3 years later in 1986 Anzen Chitai would release their very different「プルシアンブルーの肖像」so it would seem that some Japanese artist liked the term Persian for some reason. Neither Anzen Chitai's song nor Yuko Kawai's "Persian Rouge" sound very Persian to my ears but both are great songs. Anyway, I wonder what the deal was with the term Persian?
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