[Stylish & Electro]
No.42 "Say Goodbye" By Hiroshi Sato
Hi. Today's song is "SAY GOODBYE" by "Hiroshi Satoh".
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Index
1. Song data
| Title | SAY GOODBYE |
|---|---|
| Artist | Hiroshi Satoh |
| Album Title | Awakening |
| Track No. | 10 |
| Duration | 3:26 |
| Released | 1982 |
| Publisher | Alfa records |
| Lyricist | Lorraine Feather |
| Composer | Hiroshi Satoh |
| Arranger | Hiroshi Satoh |
Lorraine Feather is an American singer, lyricist, and songwriter.
For more details, please check the wikipedia.
Cover art today
3. Sound impression
Middle speed relaxing "city-pops", but touch Techno or Electro.
Because the large part of backing are created by multi-track recording of computer controlled instruments, such as sequencer, midi synthesizer. (⇒Wikipedia, MIDI)
In fact, he was a real pioneer for using those technologies for music creation.
In this album, Hiroshi Satoh mede use of "Linn LM-1 Drum computer" from USA, which was the state-of-the-arts sequencer at that time.
Different from expectations, the sound is warm and human-touch, not an artificial electronic tone.
By the way, the voice of the vocoder part is an American(from Canada) singer "Wendy Mathews".
This seems one of the earliest album she participated as a lead vocalist, and you can listen her charming voice in the other songs in this album.
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| Linn LM-1 Drum computer Photo by Ekwatts, English Wikipedia Public domain |
4. Reference
Wikipedia page for "Hiroshi Satoh" is below.
5. About the artist
- A pianist created a modern J-pop history -
Hiroshi Satoh debuted in 1976 with his first album "SUPER MARKET". Since then, 19 singles, and 23 original, 9 best albums has been released until now.
(Ref: Wikipedia-jp, Hiroshi Satoh)
He was a known pianist and keyboardist in Japanese popular music scene by his outstanding playing skills.
And in addition to that, he was also famous as a former member of legendary pop rock group "Tin pan allay", which gave a significant impact on the later J-pop.
He started his professional activity from around 1970, since then, he continued to be a top player in the J-pop world.
His talent for music is rather special. For example, the album like "awakening" picked up this time, features superb quality smooth jazz melodies, difficult to believe they were produced in 1982.
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Due to lack of time, we would like to continue this topic on the next occasion sometime in the future.
6. Samples from online music stores
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Amazon JP(en)
recochoku.jp
Apple Music(jp)
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7. Japanese Letters
| Song Title | SAY GOODBYE |
|---|---|
| Artist | 佐藤博 (Hiroshi Satoh) |
| Album Title | Awakening |
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