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No.2 "Rainy Walk" by Tatsuro Yamashita
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1. Song data
| Title | Rainy walk |
|---|---|
| Artist | Tatsuro Yamashita |
| Album Title | MOONGLOW |
| Catalog Number | BVCR-17016 |
| Track No. | 3 |
| Duration | 5:08 |
| Released | 1979 |
| Publisher | AIR RVC |
| Lyricist | Minako Yoshida |
| Composer | Tatsuro Yamashita |
| Arranger | Tatsuro Yamashita |
About the creators
A lyricist Minako Yoshida is a first generation singer-songwriter, and a pioneer for establishing J-pop since the early '70s.
Her soulful & powerful vocal is very well known, and her ability to create brand new music is outstanding.
In the '70s, she often wrote a nice lyrics for Tatsuro Yamashita and this is one of the fine example.
Tatsuro Yamahshita is also a pioneer of modern J-pop and one of the most revered artist as a creator of refined popular music.
In the late '70s, as a newbie, and a trailblazer of the stylish pop music, he was having a trying time.
Thanks to the smash hit of the last single "Bomber", his career prospect turned positive, and it allowed him to try more interesting ideas on this album.
As a result, this album became a long seller, and luckily received the 22nd Japan Record Awards, Best Album Award.
And this auspicious event later brings on a big hit of his next album.(Ride on time).
Cover art today
- Sound impressions
Simple & natural
This is a refreshing, simple & natural pop music in moderated speed, let us feel like really walking in a drizzle.
After the twinkling sound of the wind chimes, the drums and the bass start playing a very accurate rhythm.
In the middle of the song, a elegant string sound and Tatsuro Yanashita's falsetto chorus collaborate, and brings into a serene atmosphere.
Chorus work
One of the distinctive feature of Tatsuro Yamashita's songs are their beautifully designed multi track choruses. He is keen to creates self multi-track choruses, and later he released few of no instrumental "A cappella" albums.
In this context, this album "Moonglow" seems to be a start point of his such unique trials as far as we have listened.
- Reference
- About the artist
The craftsman of sound
Tatsuro Yamashita debuted in 1975 with single "Down Town". Since then, 50 singles, and 25 original, 1 live, and 1 best albums has been released until now.
(Wikipedia, Tatsuro Yamashita)
Tatsuro Yamashita is one of the most prominent artist for the Japanese popular music, who maintains his popularity for nearly 40 years.
He started his career by forming a unique pop music group "Sugar babe" whose songs are much ahead of the times in those days.
After started solo career in 1976, he has been releasing challengingly brand new pop music until now.
His such pioneer spirits moderately but well communicated to the listeners. He experienced a bit of testing time in the early stage of his career, but soon earned a popularity, and has been in a leading J-pop artist position for a long while .
His approach to the music is sometime seemed perfectionist like. His music is always very much amusing and enjoyable stuff, but to do so, they say he pays delicate attentions for lyrics, melodies, performance, recording and mixing.
His such professional attitude must have brought him a title of "Craftsman of sound".
Brilliant backing musicians
By the way, the backing musicians of this song is another remark on this song.
The drummer is "Yukihiro Takahashi", and the bassist is "Haruomi Hosono". They are members of famous "techno-pop(electro)" group "YMO"(Yellow Magic Orchestra" which left a dramatic history on the J-pop.
And, the keyboardist was Hiroshi Sato" , who was a former member of a '70s super pop-rock group "Tin Pan alley".
Finally, the guitarist was "Masaki Matsubara" who was a top guitarist in j-pop throughout '80s and the '90s.
Now, we would like to continue a talk about him in the next time sometime. Thank you.
- Samples from online music stores
No samples
The most of Tatsuro Yamashita's songs are not on sale in digital music shops. And, the music samples do not seem to be available either.
It may be his policy, or the publisher's strategy, we don't know.
If there are any news, we would like to inform and update the page soon.
Thank you.
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7. Japanese Letters
| Song Title | RAINY WALK (レイニー・ウォーク) |
|---|---|
| Artist | 山下達郎 (Tatsuro Yamashita) |
| Album Title | MOONGLOW |
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