From dduarte@clari.net Sat Oct 19 07:34:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!clari!dduarte From: dduarte@clari.net (Diego Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Oct19.073402.7003@clari.net> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 07:34:02 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Diego Duarte "They will send a copy in my place." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / Linux 1.2.13 From dpopov@rwth-aachen.de Mon Oct 21 03:20:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!dpopov From: dpopov@rwth-aachen.de (Dong-hyun Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Oct21.032002.4787@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 03:20:02 GMT References: <1996Oct19.073402.7003@clari.net> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct19.073402.7003@clari.net>, dduarte@clari.net (Diego Duarte) 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. -- Dong-hyun Popov | dpopov@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: 81E0 110D B995 2762 "Keep the channels open." From msuzuki@uu.net Mon Oct 21 11:17:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uu!msuzuki From: msuzuki@uu.net (Mikhail Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Oct21.111702.6815@uu.net> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:17:02 GMT References: <1996Oct19.073402.7003@clari.net> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct19.073402.7003@clari.net>, dduarte@clari.net (Diego Duarte) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Mikhail Suzuki Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ssato@kiae.su Tue Oct 22 03:24:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!ssato From: ssato@kiae.su (Sergei Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Oct22.032402.4347@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:24:02 GMT References: <1996Oct19.073402.7003@clari.net> <1996Oct21.032002.4787@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct21.032002.4787@rwth-aachen.de>, dpopov@rwth-aachen.de (Dong-hyun Popov) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Sergei Sato "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / NEXTSTEP 3.3