From sokonkwo@delphi.com Sun Nov 06 04:21:40 1994
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From: sokonkwo@delphi.com (Steve Okonkwo)
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Subject: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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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?

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Steve Okonkwo
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From hrodriguez@unam.mx Mon Nov 07 23:53:40 1994
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From: hrodriguez@unam.mx (Hugo Rodríguez)
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Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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In article <1994Nov06.042140.3068@delphi.com>, sokonkwo@delphi.com (Steve Okonkwo) 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.

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Hugo Rodríguez
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From dvasiliev@clari.net Tue Nov 08 19:30:40 1994
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From: dvasiliev@clari.net (Dmitri Vasiliev)
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Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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In article <1994Nov07.235340.9705@unam.mx>, hrodriguez@unam.mx (Hugo Rodríguez) writes:
> The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu.

The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu.

Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice.

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=== Dmitri Vasiliev ===
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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."