Showing posts with label Naoya Matsuoka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Naoya Matsuoka. Show all posts
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Yumi Seino -- Rio no Mahoutsukai（リオの魔法使い）

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Wikimedia Commons   KKP readers may be noticing that I've started the usual Friday Urban Contemporary articles a tad early on a Thursda...
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Friday, August 1, 2025

Naoya Matsuoka & Wesing -- Santa Monica Frwy

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  Whenever I talk about how Japanese City Pop came about, part of my answer usually includes what the Japanese back in the 1970s dreamt of w...
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Friday, July 4, 2025

Naoya Matsuoka & Wesing -- American Highway

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Wikimedia Commons via Junkyardsparkle   Happy 4th of July to those American readers of KKP down south. Hope you are enjoying the beginning ...
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Friday, May 23, 2025

Naoya Matsuoka -- Cosmos Avenue（コスモス アベニュー）

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  As with Kayo Grace above, I was also eating sushi with a couple of friends at a place that I'd never been to before, Jyugyoya in the ...
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Sunday, January 21, 2024

Naoya Matsuoka -- Knock wo Shinakatta Santa Claus（ノックをしなかったサンタクロース）

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  Well, I guess today being a Sunday , it will be a cocktail-related instrumental day for "Kayo Kyoku Plus" . My previous article ...
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Friday, October 13, 2023

Naoya Matsuoka -- 2500-nen: Takeru no Ai（2500年 - タケルの愛）

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  Usually the fifth article on Urban Contemporary Fridays is set aside for the weekly Yutaka Kimura Speaks translation, but I did want to ...

MASH -- Poreus

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  Just a couple of days ago on Wednesday , I provided Part 1 of The Works of Nobuyuki Shimizu （清水信之） and there I included one of his brief ...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Issei Okamoto -- Coat ni Sumire wo（コートにすみれを）

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  As a present from one of my students years ago, I was given a small sheaf of gift certificates worth about 10,000 yen that I could spend a...
Friday, March 4, 2022

MASH -- LOVE

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  The first time that I heard about this group, I couldn't help but be reminded of the old CBS sitcom-turned-dramedy "M*A*S*H"...
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Friday, May 7, 2021

Asami Kado -- Kibun wa Mou Menthol（気分はもうメンソール）

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  Although the usual period during the 24-hour cycle that City Pop evokes is early evening into night, I have encountered some songs that b...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Naoya Matsuoka -- A Song on the Wind (Remember Me)

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  Back in the dog days of summer, I provided a little something in the form of "Touch The New York Pink" by Latin jazz musician ...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Naoya Matsuoka -- Touch The New York Pink

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Since I got on the New York kick with Terumasa Hino's（日野皓正） "High Tide-Manhattan Ecstasy" for my last article, I've d...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Naoya Matsuoka & Minako Yoshida -- Lovin' Mighty Fire

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Found this one not in the "Light Mellow ~ Twilight" as you can see above but in the "Breeze" CD. Naoya Matsuoka（...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Pedro & Capricious -- Gafieira Night

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I realize that there is still more heat on its way before autumn finally arrives, but I've been enjoying the past few days since they...
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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Naoya Matsuoka -- Higasa no Kifujin（日傘の貴婦人）

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This particular small aspect of Japanese pop culture is definitely something that I could put into the quaint category, but I often used ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Yumi Seino -- Natural Woman

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Another recent acquisition is Yumi Seino's（清野由美） "Natural Woman" from 1981 . I first found out about her through some of h...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Naoya Matsuoka -- One Last Farewell

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Thank the heavens for Van Paugam's streaming City Pop radio. I've been able to discover some new stuff on it ever since the rad...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Rie Hatada -- Terminal （ターミナル）

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Having listened to aidoru throughout the 80s , I've come to a couple of opinions. One is that the really early 80s aidoru tunes  up...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Akina Nakamori -- Meu Amor e （ミ・アモーレ）/Lonely Journey （ロンリー・ジャーニー）

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This is the article which is a sequel of sorts from what I wrote about her album, "D404ME" since it contains her 11th single , ...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Aoi Sankaku Jougi -- Taiyo ga Kureta Kisetsu （太陽がくれた季節）

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Been trying to find this one for ages although I think it's somewhere in one of my compilations. Aoi Sankaku Jougi (青い三角定規...Blue T...