Commenter mopuchino2 reminded me of the Eriko Tamura（田村英里子）file when he left his thoughts on one of her singles "Process"（プロセス）a few days ago.
I hadn't posted an Eriko song in many years so I decided to take a look at the song "Soyokaze no Prologue" (Breezy Prologue) which mopuchino2 had recommended. It is a track on her 2nd album from February 1990, "Myself", and hearing it for the first time, it reminded me how fresh and optimistic she sounded through other songs that I had heard by her. Yoshiko Miura（三浦徳子）was behind the lyrics and Koji Makaino（馬飼野康二）, under his pen name of Mark Davis, composed the melody as a synthpop-driven aidoru tune of the times although some of that rumbling made me wonder about throwing in the Eurobeat tag.
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Didn't want to write this at the beginning of the article since I would be bringing the atmosphere down a ton but as a longtime "Star Trek" fan, I was absolutely gutted on hearing of Sir Patrick Stewart's death earlier this afternoon. It was bad enough that we lost Walter Koenig a few days ago and now we lost him. Not only was he Captain Picard of the USS Enterprise but he was also Professor X in "X-Men", two huge characters in pop culture. Catching "Avengers: Doomsday" is gonna feel very different now.
I will try to pay tribute to him tomorrow. Nope, he doesn't have anything to do with Japanese pop music but I'd like to call my choice a "Captain's Prerogative".
Guess what there is a a second version! Namely the Istanbul Version. Basically it seams that Tamura revisited the song six months later. And., Her third album, Behind the Heart, released September 5, 1990, contains: そよ風のプロローグ（イスタンブール・ヴァージョン. It is a different recording and arrangement, credited to Mark Davis himself rather than Ryō Kawakami. I heard that the anime: Idol Densetsu Eriko is loosely inspired by the real Tamura's emerging idol career.
ReplyDeleteI saw that Istanbul version on YouTube and was wondering what that was all about.
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