Showing posts with label Hiroshi Narumi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hiroshi Narumi. Show all posts
Friday, December 5, 2025

Mariko Tone -- Setsunai Yoru（せつない夜）

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  When I think of singer Mariko Tone（刀根麻理子） , I usually think of her as a 1980s artist but she was releasing singles into the 1990s. In fac...
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Friday, June 20, 2025

Hiroshi Narumi -- Oyasumi（おやすみ）

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  Around a month ago, I highlighted the late Hiroshi Narumi's（鳴海寛） "Ame Agari" （雨あがり） which first got onto  his 2017 album ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Hiroshi Narumi -- Ame Agari（雨あがり）

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  Singer-songwriter and musician Hiroshi Narumi（鳴海寛） , one-half of the City Pop/old-timey pop duo Tohoku Shinkansen（東北新幹線） , passed away a...
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Friday, May 24, 2024

Just for Fun...The J-C AI Gallery: Tats, Narumin and Junk

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  As I first did last Friday , I'm back with the AI gallery but I figured if I could do so with some of the female representatives of Ci...
Friday, September 15, 2023

Hiroshi Narumi -- Around the Thru Traffic

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From Apple   I guess it's been a good week for new City Pop discoveries. Last night, I found out about  CHiLi GiRL and then even the d...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Kyosuke Kusunoki -- Just Tonight (album)

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  Back on Monday, I wrote about singer-songwriter Kyosuke Kusunoki's（楠木恭介） old band Camel Land（キャメル・ランド） and their single "Koi no C...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Tohoku Shinkansen -- Kokoro no Mama ni（心のままに）

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  Earlier today, both Rocket Brown and I got together to make our latest album-centered podcast on "Come Along Radio" . The targe...
Friday, February 5, 2021

Melting Pot feat. Hiroshi Narumi -- Nakushitamono ga Ohsugiru（なくしたものが多過ぎる）

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  May have to look a little more closely next time around at the liner notes for "Thru Traffic" , the one-off classic 1982 City Po...
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Friday, June 26, 2020

Kyosuke Kusunoki -- Get Down

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Y'know...I really felt like pulling out another J Utah driving video when I listened to this one. However, the song itself is only f...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

frasco -- Honno Sukoshi no Ai ga Areba（ほんの少しの愛があれば）

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Taking a shine to band frasco's brand of breezy pop through their 1996 song "Kaze ni Notte ~ breeze" （風に乗って） because of its...
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Monday, September 2, 2019

Kyosuke Kusunoki -- Sugar Dance

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We've been having newscasters all day reassuring the lot of us that just because today is Labour Day , it doesn't mean the summer...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Tohoku Shinkansen -- Strange Wine（ストレンジ・ワイン）

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Ahhh... Tohoku Shinkansen's（東北新幹線） "Thru Traffic" , the urban contemporary gift from Japan that keeps on giving. Still cool...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Kyosuke Kusunoki -- Nagisa ni te ~ Close To You（渚にて）

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Well, I decided that it was time for another spending binge on the music that I love, and one of the albums that I had been aiming for wa...
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Kyosuke Kusunoki -- Come To Me Again

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Another wonderful track from the "Highway" compilation of the "Light Mellow" series to go along with Miki Asakura...
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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Tohoku Shinkansen -- Thru Traffic (Follow-Up)

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Wasn't quite sure whether I would get another crack at talking about this album since I basically covered all of the songs there whic...
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Thursday, December 28, 2017

Cindy -- Angel Touch

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About 18 months ago, I was first made aware of the lovely stylings of the late singer-songwriter Cindy . Never heard of her or saw her on...
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Monday, July 10, 2017

Tohoku Shinkansen -- Thru Traffic

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Well, this album will most likely end up being my most coveted release this year, and I was indeed very happy to get this one last week. ...
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Friday, May 19, 2017

frasco -- Kaze ni Notte ~breeze~ （風に乗って）

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A bit more seasonal than some of the torrid weather we had gotten over the last couple of days but still sunny and pleasant out there tod...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Tohoku Shinkansen -- Up and Down

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The song isn't in this collection. Yesterday, I had a commenter remark about how much he loved the works of singer-songwriter Etsuk...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Tohoku Shinkansen -- Summer Touches You

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Yup, summer is indeed coming to an end for another year, and though I'm not sure how the season was where most of you are, outside of...
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