‘Music’ Archives
TULIP, a POP music band of 70′s to 80′s
There used to be a Japanese POP music group called TULIP. This band is no longer in live act, and the boom time of them are from 70's to 80's of Japan. Their main fans are teenage girls at the time, however, some boys also liked them for the beautiful melody of TULIP. They named Tulip because they thought the sound of the name resembled [...]
Off Course,an old POP music lives on
When I was a student in Tokyo, a very popular music group, Off Course, was active both in producing new numbers and in giving concerts. I myself didn't like it very much, as opposed to a lot of fans around me. One of my close friends, one day, brought me an album called WE ARE. As I wasn't interested, I left it on the shelf for a long [...]
Esophageal Cancer attacked 2 music icons of Japan
Esophageal cancer is not an unusual disease in the recent times of Japan. We often hear an strange name of a disease called Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease on TVor at hospitals in Japan, however, it had been a strange illness for some recent years. By the upsurge of oily Western food consumption in Japan, this strange disease has been on [...]
King Crimson Moon Child ?
Recently I often listen to a CM song on TV. But it reminds me of a song called Moon Child by King Crimson, which was released in their first album back in 1970 or 1969. Actually this CM song is partly quoted from a full version, so the total image of this song is not like Moon Child but this part is really similar to Moon Child. Many of [...]
Favourite Jazz Pianist, Bill Evans
There was a vote for favourite Jazz pianists on the internet in Japan. The top popular pianist was Bill Evans. As opposed to our expectation, recent popular pianists like Kieth Jarret or Chick Corea were not in to top 5 group. Bud Powell, Winton Kelly, Oscar Peterson, and Herbbie Hancock were liked by Japanese next to Bill Evans although Bill [...]
Far Sighted Rock Fans !
Recently a lot of magazines in Japan fade away with the reason of losing readers. In this internet informative society, magazines or papers have more or less have fatal ending. Onlylimited target magazines could be alive probably. Otherwise, we don't want to pay charge to information because we can get it by internet. Today, a rock music [...]
Riverside Hotel – Yosui Inoue
Yosui Inoue is a really strange singer/songwriter of Japan. He came up at the time of new generation movement of early 1970's. Beatles made a ig impact on him and he gave up follwoing his father's business as a dentist. His songs are really unique. Maybe his voice leads us to his atmospher. When we hear his music, we feel we are in Japan. But [...]
KITARO still goes on SILK ROAD
I like a Japanese musician called KITARO. Some may know this guy as he won Grammy award several times in the USA. His music is a synthesizer based music but its sound is really warm and it has human sensitivity without mechanical image. 30 years ago or so, Japanese national TV station, NHK, had a popular program telling about SILK ROAD, [...]
Bob Dylan is on tour in Japan now
Starting from March 11th, Bob Dylan is now on his concert tour in Japan until 29th of March. I like him, but I didn't touch his music so often. Maybe I think he is an artist rather than a singer or musician. I like to hear his words, and I like to know how he thinks of today's world. It's a kind of measure of our life today, I think like [...]
Monkey Magic by Godiego
There used to be a good music group called GODIEGO. Back in 1980's, GODIEGO was probably one of the top hit makers in Japan. The band members were all nice musicians with high music technique and music knowledge background. They made some hits, especially when they produced a TV program song album in Japan, they had the big time. MONKEY [...]
