[Mellow & breezy]
No.57 "Glass no kakera" by Mai Yamane
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1. Song data
| Title | Glass no kakera (A piece of glass) |
|---|---|
| Artist | Mai Yamane |
| Album Title | The Day Before Yesterday |
| Track No. | 5 |
| Duration | 4:40 |
| Released | 1984 |
| Publisher | Teichiku records |
| Lyricist | Mai Yamane |
| Composer | Ken Satoh |
| Arranger | The band of nite family |
About the creators
Mai Yamane is not only an excellent vocalist but lyricist too.
She had written less lyrics in the early albums, but later, the most of lyrics for her songs had come to be written by her and her younger sister "Eiko Yamane".
Ken Satoh is a known composer and arranger, with his number of works produced for the various J-pop artists.
Information about "The band of nite family" is limited, but it seems a support band for "Mai Yamane", which 8 fine musicians were teamed up.
"Akihiko Noguchi" is a core member of the team. He is known as a original member of the legendary band "Sugar babe" together with "Tatsuro Yamashita" and "Taeko Ōnuki".
Other members like "Mitsuyasu Tomohisa", "Keizō Kondō", and so on are mostly the members of a long-running rock group "The Jaywalk".
Cover art
- Sound impressions
Relaxed & mellow pop song
This is a relaxed mellow pop song at a middle speed in 8 beat.
An ensemble of the drums, bass, and the acoustic guitar creates a refreshing rhythm, and the keyboard and synthesizer add a pastel-colored image to the song.
Mai Yamane's husky, but touchy voice fits with the sentimental lyrics and projects the other kind of cuteness.
- Reference
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- About the artist
A piquant artist of rock-a-ballad
Mai Yamane, who is addressed as "A-sha" recently, debuted in 1979 with single "Gozen 0 ji(AM0:00)". Since then, 4 singles, and 14 original, 1 best albums has been released until now.
(Wikipedia, Mai Yamane)
The timing of her debut, namely 1979, was a period nearing the peak of the "City-pop" boom.
Mai Yamane was also expected to be a singer in this category, and the production office provided high quality staffs like "Makoto Matsushita", "Minoru Mukaiya" for the recording of her albums.
Thanks to the effort of the team, her 1st and 2nd albums turned out as a superb quality city-pop records which are still praized as masterpieces.
But it appeared that her flair was more in the soul, rock-a-ballad field. Her music style moved gradually in that direction.
She continued to release good albums, and became a star of the rock-a-ballad, having an attractive husky voice and a shout.She looked like maintained a strong interest for spirituality.
After traveling all around the world, she married with "Takao Yamada", of a famous meditation specialist, and learned esoterica from him.
Regrettably, Mr. Yamada passed away in 2003. She inherited his spilit and continueing the activities as an instructor after that.
At the same time, she is continueing more conceptual music named "Awakening Music" focusing on the nature of the human.
- Samples from online music stores
About the samples
Please go to the page below, and just play or click track No.5.
Her earlier albums are difficult to get, since the supply is unstable and rather expensive. The 4 albums on the apple music seems to be a only realistic commercial source of her music at the moment.
Just for your information.
Trial button is on the left side of the song title.
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7. Japanese Letters
| Song Title | ガラスの破片 (Garasu no kakera) |
|---|---|
| Artist | 山根麻衣(now 山根麻以) (Mai Yamane) |
| Album Title | The Day Before Yesterday |
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