Salon Music -- Hunting on Paris

 

I began the New Wave duo Salon Music file almost a couple of years ago with their July 1983 single "Duet ni Muchuu"（デュエットに夢中）and found it to be a nice slice of the genre this side of Sparks. Quirky and refreshing, it is.

Tonight, I give you the follow-up single to "Duet ni Muchuu", "Hunting on Paris" which was released in October of that year. Vocalist and bassist Jin Yoshida（吉田仁）and vocalist and keyboardist Hitomi Takenaka（竹中仁見）retain the New Wave but go a bit more into the rock zone and the author of the article on Fond Sound hit the nail on the head when the reference was made to The B-52s regarding this song. Sung totally in English, this really is a hunt on the City of Lights since Yoshida and Takenaka are making like a couple of hardcore Francophiles who love everything about the French. The author of the Fond Sound article also states that "Hunting on Paris" was the breakthrough song for the pair, getting them that deal with Pony Canyon.