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Blue Selection
''Blue Selection'' is the studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released shortly after its predecessor ''Cassis''. Like ''The Night Without a Guide is the studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yosui Inoue, released in November 1992. The album comprises the newly arranged versions of the songs that Inoue himself had already recorded on his albums or singles, except "Just Fit" which was ...'' album came out in 1992, it includes renewed renditions of his previous released songs. Those interpretations features the jazz-influence arrangements, and they were recorded by his then-touring band. The lead-off track "Kazari ja Nai no yo Namida wa" was released as a single prior to the album, but it was almost disregarded. Likewise, ''Blue Selection'' itself managed to reach the top-20 on the chart, and has been one of the least successful albums for Inoue. Track listing All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise noted #"" - 4:05 #"" (Inoue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to use piano and dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassis (album)
''Cassis'' is the 20th solo studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released in July 2002. The album includes "Kimerareta Rhythm", which was featured on the Academy Award-nominated motion picture ''The Twilight Samurai'', directed by Yoji Yamada. The song "You are the Top" was originally contributed to the same-titled musical by Kōki Mitani. Two singles were cut from the album: "Kono Yo no Sadame" and "Final Love Song"; both songs were featured on the TV advertisings of Kirin Beverage starring Inoue himself. Track listing All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise indicated #"" - 4:23 #"" - 5:00 #"Final Love Song" - 4:25 #"" - 4:28 #"" - 6:18 #"" - 3:19 #"" (Inoue/Natsumi Hirai) - 3:10 #"" (Inoue/Hirai) - 2:28 #"You are the Top" (Inoue/Hirai/ Kōki Mitani) - 4:28 #"" - 4:47 #"" - 4:13 Personnel *Yōsui Inoue - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, hand-claps *Tsuyoshi Kon - electric guitar, acoustic guitar *Haruo Kubota - electric g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Complex
''Love Complex'' is the 23rd studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released in June 2006. The album features "Atarashii Koi", a song co-written by Kou Machida. It was used on the TV ad of Suntory's Old Whisky that starring Inoue, and released as a single before the album came out. Flip side of a single was "Nagai Neko", a song that Inoue's daughter Sarasa Ifu wrote the lyrics. Track listing All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise noted #"11;36 Love Train" - 3:54 #"Psychedelic Love Letter" - 4:09 #"Navigation" - 5:32 #"Mystery " - 4:17 #"" (Inoue/Akiko Yano is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer born in Tokyo and raised in Aomori and later began her singing career in the mid-1970s. She has been called "one of the major musical talents of the Japanese popular music world", and her vocals an ...) - 5:18 #"" (Inoue/ Kou Machida) - 5:09 #"" (Inoue/Chiharu Mikuzuki) - 3:19 #"" (Inoue/Sarasa Ifu) - 3:37 #"" - 3:20 #"" - 4:25 #"" - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yōsui Inoue
is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, guitarist and record producer, who is an important figure in Japanese music. "Hailed as the Bob Dylan of Japan .. He is renowned for his unique tone, eccentric lyrics, and dark sunglasses which he always wears. Under the stage name Andre Candre, Inoue debuted in 1969 and released a single "Candre Mandre" by CBS Sony Records. After he changed his stage name and signed onto Polydor, he recorded his first studio album ''Danzetsu'' in 1971, and the album was acclaimed by critics. Inoue gained recognition as a folk-rock singer-songwriter through his 1973 ''Kōri no Sekai'' album, which became the first long-playing record that sold more than a million copies in Japan alone. His early work has been compared with the music of Paul McCartney and Roy Orbison. Mark Anderson writes in the ''Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture'', "His music was smart, melancholy and melodic. ..Inoue's work of the early 1970s ..is widely thought to have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Without A Guide
is the studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yosui Inoue, released in November 1992. The album comprises the newly arranged versions of the songs that Inoue himself had already recorded on his albums or singles, except "Just Fit" which was written for ''Mis Cast'' album by Kenji Sawada in 1982. Inoue stated that over 20 songs were re-recorded during the sessions. Rest of them excluded from the album have not been released, except "No-ichigo" appeared on the flip side of a single "Musubikotoba". Track listing All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise noted #"" - 4:32 #"" - 4:32 #"" (Katz Hoshi/Inoue) - 5:31 #"" - 4:11 #"" (Kei Ogura Kei Ogura (Ogura Kei, 小椋佳, born January 18, 1944, in Ueno, Taito, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese singer, songwriter and composer. He was also a bank clerk of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, after graduation from the University of Tokyo. His musical car .../Inoue) - 5:18 #"" - 4:07 #"Just Fit" - 4:26 #"" - 5:13 #"" - 5:10 #"" - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
