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Scooters / Hair / Lupin
Today I picked these 3 excellent CDs. They seem to coincidentally be under a theme of "groovy returns".
Scooters "Complete Collection"
The Scooters was formed in 1978, and are "Tokyo's Motown Sound".
The band changed members 5 times, but currently consists of 5 female vocalists, one who also plays saxophone, and 5 other members (keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, MC/percussions), including SHINDŌ Mitsuo (art director for Contemporary Production (C.T.P.P.)).
This album is, as its title says, a complete collection of all their recordings and more (live versions and two previously unreleased songs). I had heard just a little bit of this CD while shopping in a store the other day and I was hooked.
The band seems still active as they recorded the song "Pillow Talk" two years ago for "A Tribute To Terry Johnson".
ŌNO Yūji et Kahimi Karie "Lupin Trois"
This is the soundtrack to the Lupin the 3rd TV special that was aired on August 1st. The ending theme, "le soleil d'or" features Kahimi Karie on vocals. The French lyrics were written by herself.
The soundtrack is written and produced by ŌNO Yūji, composer of the original and famous "Theme of Lupin the 3rd".
Hair "ROMA o mite kara, shine."
This is the latest album produced by KONISHI Yasuharu, released on his label Readymade International. Hair is Ai SATŌ, together with varying musicians and collaborators. This album features YOKOYAMA Ken (Crazy Ken Band), NOMOTO Karia, YOSHIDA Tetsuto (programmer for KONISHI Yasuharu) and many others. This is the first Hair album in 7 years!
This is a picture I took of Hair at Readymade Festival on July 19 at HMV Shibuya.
Posted on August 20, 2003 at 23:28 | Tweet
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