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Welcome to June! Perhaps though I should sarcastically say something like "Welcome to November!" because the temperatures don't really reflect late spring or early summer. Yup, it's chilly out there.
A few years ago, I put up this article for the Les 5-4-3-2-1 cover of the immortal "Bond Street", originally created by Burt Bacharach in 1967, and it was a track on the 1996 compilation "Sushi 3003 - A Spectacular Collection Of Japanese Clubpop". I don't know much about what Japanese club pop is, but hey, Shibuya-kei is something I know a little about.
Regardless, the final track on "Sushi 3003" is a pretty hip-swiveling number called "Kiss" by now-retired actress/singer Chiharu Iwamoto（岩本千春）who was active in the geinokai between 1986 and 2015. In 1990, she released her one-and-only album "Kagami"（かがみ...Mirrors） and that's where "Kiss" originated. Written and composed by Pizzicato Five's Yasuharu Konishi（小西康陽）, "Kiss" is a martini-friendly lounge number with a nice dollop of Latin here and a spritzer of jazz trumpet there. Plus, Iwamoto provides the nearly de rigueur kittenish voice popular in Shibuya-kei. Also, what about those irresistible bongo drums at one point? It's almost enough to get me up to cut a rug.
