Year 2012 is considered "complete". If you notice any omission or mistake, please contact me.
120125
Maki Nomiya 30 ~Greatest Self Covers & More!!!~
Sony AICL-2343 1.25.12
TRACKS: 2. The night is still young 4. Baby Portable Rock 5. Superstar 6. Sweet Soul Revue 7. Magic Carpet Ride 9. They All Laughed 11. Triste 12. Message Song 13. On the sunny side of the street 15. Portable Rock: Sweet Renaissance SEE: Lost & Found
NOTES: Self-cover album by Maki Nomiya. Included as a bonus track is a rare recording by Portable Rock (Maki Nomiya's 80's band) for which Konishi wrote lyrics, "Sweet Renaissance" remained unreleased until this album. (Pizzicato Five cover tracks listed for reference.)
NOTES: Live album by Portable Rock (Maki Nomiya's 80's band), except for these two studio tracks which were previously unreleased. Both had lyrics written by Konishi.
120425
MEG La japonaise
Starchild KICS-1763 4.25.12
TRACKS: 9. Rouge no dengon (from "Kiki Delivery Service")
NOTES: The Scooters is a band led by Mitsuo Shindo (art director for Pizzicato Five and many Shibuya-kei artists), which came back in 2012 after 30 years since their previous original album "musumegokoro wa Scooters" (1982). The Konishi-written song's music video shows the English title "I heard it through the grapevine". The album's Japanese title is "onna wa nando mo shōbu suru".
120808
SMAP GIFT of SMAP
Victor VIZL-1011 (Limited edition) ; VICL-64111 (Regular edition) 8.8.12
TRACKS: 1. Fly Me To The Moon (Bart Howard) SEE: Brilliant Ideas Works Of Yasuharu Konishi 1986-2018 2. Cry Me A River (Arthur Hamilton) 3. Johnny Guitar (The Spotnicks) 4. Lullaby of Itsuki ~ The Shadow of Your Smile 5. Summertime (George Gershwin) 6. Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma) 7. Sway (Pablo Beltran Ruiz) 8. watashi wa naiteimasu (Lily) 9. One Rainy Night In Tokyo (Wada Hiroshi & His Mahinastars) 10. saikai (Matsuo Kazuko) 11. tada sore dake no koto (Ibuki Jirō) 12. Over The Rainbow (Julie Garland)
NOTES: First jazz album by famous enka singer, entirely produced by Konishi. All are covers of songs from the world and Japan. Japanese title: "yoru no Album".
121024
Kyoko Koizumi Koizumi Chansonnier
Victor VIZL-499 (Limited edition) ; VICL-63932 (Regular edition) 10.24.12
NOTES: The limited edition contains a bonus remix CD.
121128
Original Soundtrack Tokyo zenryoku shōjo
Vap VPCD-81758 11.28.12
TRACKS: 1. Pianist ga Wild ni naru 2. mae o muite arukō 3. kono Groovy na sekai de 4. toshokan no ongaku 5. mijikai toshokan no ongaku 6. Grand gekijō 1974 7. mizumore tenshi 8. watashi mitai na Type ni datte nayami wa aru 9. Mexican Rock 2012 10. New Vaudeville Sound 11. kanashimi no toshokan 12. tantei gokko 13. okkake Rock 14. Drum o tatake 15. suiyō yoru 10ji no Suspense 16. Tokyo zenryoku shōjo no seishun 17. konshū wa Happy End de 18. Tokyo wa Merry Go Round 19. Pianist futatabi