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No.61 "Ryuu-sei no Highway" by Izumi Kato
Hi. Today's song is "Ryūsei no Highway"(Shooting star highway) by "Izumi Katō".
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Index
1. Song data
| Title | Ryūsei no Highway (Shooting star highway ) |
|---|---|
| Artist | Izumi Katō |
| Album Title | skinny (PCCA-00565) |
| Track No. | 7 |
| Duration | 4:56 |
| Released | 1994 |
| Publisher | Pony Canyon |
| Lyricist | Ken Takahashi |
| Composer | Ken Takahashi |
| Arranger | Ken Takahashi |
About the creators
The lyricist, composer & arranger of this song is Ken Takahashi. He is a singer-songwriter debuted in 1979 with his first single record "Natsukashi-no 4-gousen" (The nostalgic route No.4). Then, he has released 2 albums until now.
Since 1983, he is working as a creative staff, and produced a notable young rock singer like "Ayumi Nakamura" to date.
"Ken Takahashi" has produced a few of J-pop singers including "Izumi Katō", and therefore, nearly 90% of "Izumi Katō"'s song line up are the produce of "Takahashi's.
Now, "Ken Takahashi" is constantly holding a concert titled "acoustic tour", at a small venue in a friendly atmosphere together with "Izumi Katō"
The event is being held fairly regularly in all over Japan at the moment. So, please join if you like.
Cover art today
- Sound impressions
Relaxed & comfortable
This is a relaxed soft pop-rock in comfortable middle speed.
After the moderately fast slumming of the acoustic guitar(Ovation?), the drums, bass, lead guitar, Keyboard, trumpets and the percussion join and start an ensemble.
The string synthesizer sound reminds us a starry sky, and the melody of flute is like phrasing a expressive face of the heroine's.
Izumi Katō's voice is natural and restful, and we can unwind at the end of the day.
- Reference
Wikipedia page for "Izumi Katō" is below.
About Google translate
- About the artist
Slim cutie
Izumi Katō debuted in 1991 with the album "Saint-Exupéry(alb)". Since then, 19 singles, and 14 original, 6 best albums has been released until now.
(Wikipedia, Izumi Katō)
She had been a popular face among the singers came out during the "Girls pop(music) movement" in the '90s, aiming at promoting female singer-songwriters more as a characters.
in such circumstances, her natural voice attracted the fans, and cute looks charmed young men. She became a bit of TV character, and was being active until recent.
Now, she has formed an office together with the colleagues, and been having a small concert in all over the country.
If you have a chance, please join.
Tight supply
Now, accessing for her albums isn't an easy job. Both New CDs and digital music are not available, and the used CDs are the only source at the moment.
(Except very recent 2-3 albums, on sale at fantasista.)
So, we would like to update the blog if there are any changes.
By the way, on Youtube, we have found a live clip of this song performed in 1994.
We cannot directly link it since it does not look like an official video.
But the clip itself has no problem as far as we tested. You can access to it by "googling" the song title in Japanese letters, or this(2dqkPx1DfXk).
Plase make sure you are jumping to the "Youtube", since a lot of suspicious website appears on the search results.
- Samples from online music stores
About the samples
Please go to the page below, and just play or click track No.7.
Trial button is on the left side of the song title.
AD : Free listening samples
hmv.co.jp
neowing.co.jp
Amazon JP(en)
7. Japanese Letters
| Song Title | 流星のハイウェイ (Shooting star highway ) |
|---|---|
| Artist | 加藤いづみ (Izumi Katō) |
| Album Title | skinny |
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