Showing posts with label Ikki Matsumoto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ikki Matsumoto. Show all posts
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Reimy -- Saigo no Yasashisa（最後の優しさ）

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  Haven't seen singer-songwriter Reimy（麗美） in a while, so it's nice to have her here right at the beginning of this new year. As I...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Chiaki Ogami -- Glass Shojo（ガラス少女）

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  Last month, I introduced brief-careered  80s aidoru Chiaki Ogami（尾上千昌） and one of her singles "Tokimeki Highway" （ときめきハイウェイ） fro...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Chiaki Ogami -- Tokimeki Highway（ときめきハイウェイ）

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  Ahhh... the early 80s aidoru arrangement: lots of wailing electric guitar and twinkling synthesizers, plus the adorably (or not) off-tune...
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Monday, August 11, 2025

Akemi Ishii -- Celebration

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Amazon.jp   Welcome to the continued dog days of summer , and yep, it's still plenty torrid here even in Toronto . I can't even imag...
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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Akemi Ishii -- Celebration

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  When it comes to the oeuvre of singer Akemi Ishii（石井明美） , I've always pictured her as being someone resolutely linked with the mid to...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

SHIHO -- Distance

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  I've known my fair share of ladies named Shiho including one of my students-turned-friends back in Tokyo . We also have a few of them ...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Step -- Memorial Song（メモリアル・ソング）

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  This particular song popped up a mere few days ago on YouTube channel "Kimi no Station: The Home of City Pop", and usually it...
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Saturday, November 5, 2022

The Works of Ikki Matsumoto（松本一起）

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  Through the Mixi news feed yesterday, I read that lyricist Ikki Matsumoto had passed away on November 4th at the approximate age of 73. A...
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Joe Hisaishi -- Fuyu no Tabibito（冬の旅人）

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  When I think of the Japanese dramas of the late 1980s , my mind usually goes to the trendy dramas in which the young and beautiful reside ...
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Saturday, June 11, 2022

Tomoko (Rinco) Mayumi -- Sentimental Natsu Shojo（センチメンタル・夏少女）

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  With summer approaching, I have to start digging more for those seasonally appropriate tunes. Since urban contemporary was the thing yest...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Mayumi Abe -- Tsumi to Batsu（罪と罰）

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  A few months back, I wrote about a singer from Aichi Prefecture named Mayumi Abe（阿部真弓） who was one-and-done with her singing career in th...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Yu Hayami -- MERMAID 1984

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  This could come down as one of the bigger coincidences that I've ever experienced but this particular song by 80s aidoru Yu Hayami（早見優...
Friday, February 19, 2021

TOSHITARO -- Tight Night

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  Welcome to Friday ! The photo above is of the Toki no Kane (The Bell of Time) , one of the landmarks in the city of Kawagoe, Saitama Prefe...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Wataru Kuniyasu -- Gypsy Queen（ジプシークィーン）

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  Happy first weekend of 2021! So far, so quiet today although I did catch that "Doctor Who" New Year's special (I've b...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Jun Miyazaki -- Shin-Romantic/Second Virgin（新･ロマンチック・セカンド･ヴァージン）

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  When it comes to the 1980s aidoru , I've usually split it down in the middle: the early 80s aidoru with folks like Seiko Matsuda（松田聖子...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

Yoshinori Monta -- Aisarenai Show Time（愛されないShow Time）

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Couldn't finish off today's articles without tackling this one here since it's so funkalicious! When it comes to Yoshinor...
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Sunday, August 11, 2019

Mami Ayukawa -- Cancel no Yoin（キャンセルの余韻）

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The first Mami Ayukawa（鮎川麻弥） song that I put onto "Kayo Kyoku Plus" back in early 2017 was the breezy City Pop -feeling "...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Honey & B-Boys -- Back To Frisco

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Still loving those surprises while working on the blog. One of those surprises involved the realization that Canada's own David Foste...
Saturday, October 6, 2018

Satoko Ishimine -- Doyoubi to Pen to Udedokei（土曜日とペンと腕時計）

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Satoko Ishimine （石嶺聡子） is a name that I found among the CDs of the "Good Times Diva" series, and if memory serves, she has oft...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Yu Hayami -- Isoide! Hatsukoi（急いで!初恋）

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It's been over a year since I wrote about the Hawaii -loving aidoru of the 1980s, Yu Hayami（早見優） , and I did listen to that first dis...
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