From mwatanabe@tum.de Thu Jun 08 03:16:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!mwatanabe From: mwatanabe@tum.de (Matthias Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jun08.031635.6977@tum.de> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 03:16:35 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Matthias Watanabe Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Technische Universität München. ------------------------------------------------------------ From hhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Jun 09 21:48:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!hhughes From: hhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Heather Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jun09.214835.9870@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 1995 21:48:35 GMT References: <1995Jun08.031635.6977@tum.de> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun08.031635.6977@tum.de>, mwatanabe@tum.de (Matthias Watanabe) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. > It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Heather Hughes | hhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: 4276 AE8B A2C1 6804 "Keep the channels open." From hjohansson@mit.edu Sat Jun 10 21:17:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!hjohansson From: hjohansson@mit.edu (Hana Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jun10.211735.8851@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 21:17:35 GMT References: <1995Jun08.031635.6977@tum.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun08.031635.6977@tum.de>, mwatanabe@tum.de (Matthias Watanabe) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Hana Johansson "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Acorn RiscPC 600 / FreeBSD 2.1