An amazing song by this japanese Trio, Cosmos:
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Here in the comments we find some interesting info by the user seaboatsk:
Ms. Keiko Matsui, one of the three memembers of the band, is now teaching at a
college in Japan. She has been in USA for some years and has been awarded for
her excellence by a US smooth jazz committee in 2000 and 2001. In Japan in
80s, so many TV and radio programs put songs of smooth jazz bands, such as,
Cosmos, Casiopea (Japanese), Fruitcake (Dutch), Mezzoforte (Icelandic), and
Shakatak (UK), on air.
Broken piano jazz for you
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CREATE MACHINES
CREATE MACHINES
CREATE MACHINES
CREATE MACHINES
CREATE MACHINES
CREATE MACHINES
CREATE MACHINES
CREATE MACHINES
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Found Phantasia by chance. I wanted to buy the CD. Hard to find a 1981, right?
It looked pretty obscure.
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Then I read the description:
This project is a heartfelt tribute to the golden age of Japanese jazz fusion.
Through storytelling, music and AI, we aim to reimagine a lost era and evoke
the timeless beauty of this genre.
Yes. C i t y p o p.
What a hit:
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EDIT:
Actually there are more layers of complexity… SHAMBARA has a connection with
Casiopea. If you check the wiki you’ll
find that Akira Jimbo and Tetsuo Sakurai from Casiopea formed SHAMBARA together
with the rest of SHAMBARA members.
Lately, I’m into Citypop. As everyone else.
It’s familiar. It’s groovy. It’s soothing. It connects with a lot of people and
gives you a very positive feeling.
I follow the YouTube Channel Music Radar Clan
which is an excellent channel where the creator does small documentaries on a
variety of topics related to music and musicians. If you understand Spanish, I
highly recommend it.
In his video on Citypop he showed
how this genre was the portrait of a growing economy and positivism that
Japan lived in the 80s. Consumerism was everywhere, all was good as there was
money and things to do with it. It was a golden age for the people living there
apparently.
Susumu Hirasawa appreciation post. Yet another electrical hit from Kaku P-Model.
I really appreciate how the works alone by Susumu Hirasawa are completely
different from Kaku P-Model, yet they share a lot of things. Like two sides of a
coin.
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