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Haruomi Hosono - Rose and Beast

Banji Kaicho 052

https://www.wrir.org/2021/12/27/052-pizzicato-five/

Pizzicato Five / Tout Va Bien (Banji-Jump From Corcovado)
Pizzicato Five / Summertime, Summertime
Pizzicato Five / Temptation Talk
Pizzicato Five / Satellite Hour
Pizzicato Five / Let's Go Away For A While (Concert Arrangements)
Pizzicato Five / Telepathy
Pizzicato Five / Twiggy Twiggy
Pizzicato Five / Icecream Meltin' Mellow
Pizzicato Five / Nata Di Marzo
Pizzicato Five / Week-end
Pizzicato Five / All About The Married Life
Pizzicato Five / Couples (Sitar Version)
Pizzicato Five / On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Pizzicato Five / Groovy Is My Name
Pizzicato Five / I Hear a Symphony (Album Version)
Pizzicato Five / I Hear a Symphony (Single Version)
Pizzicato Five / Mon Amour Tokyo
Pizzicato Five / Tokyo, Mon Amour
Pizzicato Five / A Message Song
Pizzicato Five / Arigato We Love You
Pizzicato Five / The International Playboy & Playgirl Beats
Pizzicato Five / Happy Sad
Pizzicato Five / Triste
Pizzicato Five / Silent Night
Pizzicato Five / 12月24日
Pizzicato Five / Serial Stories
Pizzicato Five / The Night Is Still Young (Studio Live)
Pizzicato Five / Magic Carpet Ride

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PIZZICATO FIVE

Banji Kaicho 048

https://www.wrir.org/2021/11/29/048-geinoh-yamashirogumi

Geinoh Yamashirogumi / キリエ
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / わらべうた抄
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / わたしの亜麻畑
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / 婚礼のアッハワッシュ
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / 花束によせて
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / ニハーベント旋法の唄＜トルコ、芸術合唱曲＞
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / 瞑想 Dark Slumber
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / おうちの人
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / べんとう
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / 栗の収穫の唄＜台湾、高砂族＞
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / ウヒミラ・イセカナカリ・ナスクンベ＜タンザニア、スクマ族＞
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / 熟壊［近・現代］Catastrophe
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / Tetsuo
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / 舟こぎ競争の唄
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / 翠生 Primordial Germination
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / 山城節"狸"
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / 解逅［近未来］Disco
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / Winds Over The Neo-Tokyo
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / チャー
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / 恐山
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / 黄金鱗讃揚
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / Requiem
Geinoh Yamashirogumi / トドラは夢見る

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Geinoh Yamashirogumi 芸能山城組

Banji Kaicho 047

https://www.wrir.org/2021/11/22/047-ichiko-hashimoto

Ichiko Hashimoto / Runnin'
Ichiko Hashimoto / Their Daily Lives
Ichiko Hashimoto / L'Oiseau
Ichiko Hashimoto / Flower
Ichiko Hashimoto / The Girl From Ipanema
橋本一子 × AQ / Bossa Cruise
Ichiko Hashimoto / 風の宮殿 ～フランボア～
Ichiko Hashimoto / 羽根の気持ち
Ichiko Hashimoto / Tamare Kurawanka
Ichiko Hashimoto / Avant,Ren Dez Vous
Ichiko Hashimoto / Frozen Ecstasy
Colored Music / Angel
Colored Music / Love Hallucination
Colored Music / Heartbeat (Alternate Version)
Ichiko Hashimoto / Katun No Sadame
Ichiko Hashimoto / Someday My Prince Will Come
橋本一子 Ub-X / Rin
Ichiko Hashimoto / good girl
Ichiko Hashimoto / A Few Memories
Ichiko Hashimoto / 12Years
Ichiko Hashimoto / Solitudes
Ichiko Hashimoto / Gnossienne No.3
Ichiko Hashimoto / Strange Paradise
Ichiko Hashimoto / II. 悲しみは甘く柔らかな記憶
Ichiko Hashimoto / Triste
Ichiko Hashimoto / Out Of Limit
Ichiko Hashimoto / 空
Ichiko Hashimoto / Yume No Tamago

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Ichiko Hashimoto 橋本一子

Banji Kaicho 046

https://www.wrir.org/2021/11/15/046-toru-takemitsu

Toru Takemitsu / Ruined Map
Toru Takemitsu / Requiem For Strings (1957)
Toru Takemitsu / Crossing (1969)
Toru Takemitsu / Valeria (1965)
Toru Takemitsu / Stanza II, for Harp and Tape (1971)
Toru Takemitsu / Echo I (1973)
Toru Takemitsu / Water Music (1960)
Toru Takemitsu / Rain Tree for 3 Percussion Players (1981)
Toru Takemitsu / Rain Dreams For Cembalo (1986)
Toru Takemitsu / Sky, Horse And Death (1958)
Toru Takemitsu / Static Relief (1956)
Toru Takemitsu / Dodesukaden
Toru Takemitsu / The Inheritance
Toru Takemitsu / Longing Or Once A Rainy Day
Toru Takemitsu / Attendance At the Funeral / Flute of Darkness
Toru Takemitsu / Ending Credits
Toru Takemitsu / Waltz (From The Face Of Another)
Toru Takemitsu / 東京戦争戦後秘話 = He Died After War
Carmen Maki / 死んだ男の残したものは
石川セリ / めぐり逢い

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Toru Takemitsu 武満徹

Banji Kaicho 045

https://www.wrir.org/2021/11/08/045-susumu-yokota

Yokota / Good Morning
Susumu Yokota / Aerial Chateau
Stevia / Fruits of the Planet
Ringo / Renkon
Ebi / San
Yin & Yang / Step
Frankfurt-Tokio-Connection / Luminescent Avatar
Tenshin / Sirius Vamp
Anima Mundi / Hebula
Susumu Yokota / Spacious House
Susumu Yokota / Meijijingu
Prism / Ocean Blue
246 aka Susumu Yokota / Deck Up
Susumu Yokota / Go Ahead
Susumu Yokota / Rabbit Earring
Susumu Yokota / Sky Blue
Susumu Yokota / Long Long Silk Bridge
Susumu Yokota / The Colour of Pomegranates
Susumu Yokota / Nisemono No Uta
Susumu Yokota / Amanogawa
Susumu Yokota / Lost Ring
Susumu Yokota / Stitch
Susumu Yokota / Legendary Stream
Susumu Yokota / The Reality of Reincarnation
Stevia / Cherry Girl
Prism / Bloody Marys Step
Susumu Yokota / Hisen
Susumu Yokota / Nacre
Yokota / Wait For A Day
Susumu Yokota / Sleepy Eye
Susumu Yokota / After Falling Twice
Susumu Yokota / Symbol of Life, Love and Aesthetics

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Susumu Yokota 横田進

Banji Kaicho 044

https://www.wrir.org/2021/11/01/044-hiroshi-yoshimura

Hiroshi Yoshimura / 森の夜明け
Hiroshi Yoshimura / 小川にそって
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Street
Hiroshi Yoshimura / 午後の散歩 = Afternoon Walk
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Tokyo Bay Area
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Dance PM
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Rain Dance (Rain Mix)
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Kamakura Sound Logo 2
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Ojigisou
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Green Shower
Hiroshi Yoshimura / 音の島 (Island Mix)
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Hoh River
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Terraca3 水のささやきA
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Time After Time
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Umineko
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Maple Syrup Factory
Hiroshi Yoshimura / To • Ki • Me • Ki (Heart Beats)
Hiroshi Yoshimura / Creek

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Hiroshi Yoshimura 吉村弘

Pizzicato Five - Moderns

大瀧詠一/指切り

towa tei-Free(Sweet Robots Against The Machine)

From "Hosono House" - 1973 - Bellwood Records/King Record

Haruomi "Harry" Hosono - Bara To Yajyu

ピチカート・ファイヴ 
ボサ・ノヴァ2001

Bossa Nova 2001 is one of the defining albums of the Shibuya-Kei scene of the 1990's. P5's prior albums had something of a ticky-tacky quality, but Bossa Nova 2001 burst forth as a fully realized masterpiece. (An aside: The album was released in 1993, and the "2001" in the title was a reference to the retro-futurism of the 1960's.) Pastiche blends seamlessly with an astute pop sensibility to create the "new stereophonic sound spectacular" that became the core of P5's sound. While certain later albums were spectacularly experimental at the time, Bossa Nova 2001 remains the P5 album with the most genuinely timeless sound. "Sweet Soul Revue", one of the band's biggest hits in Japan, blends girl-group nostalgia with funk and soul, a synthesis that presaged the wonderful potential of the Shibuya-Kei scene. The album's best song, the dreamy fantasia "Magic Carpet Ride," would become the final song ever performed live by Pizzicato Five, and no fan could have asked for a better selection.

Pizzicato Five - Bossa Nova 2001

Pacific

Haruomi Hosono Shigeru Suzuki Amp Tatsuro Yamashita - Saigo No Rakuen 1978

ピチカート・ファイヴ
オーヴァードーズ

Overdose occupies an awkward space between the widely acclaimed Bossa Nova 2001 and Romantique 96. Keitaro (K-Taro) Takanami, one of the founding members of P5, left the band during the Overdose sessions, and the album had to be dramatically re-cut in anticipation of its release. The result is a mixed bag of some of the all-time P5 classics ("Happy Sad," "Groupie"), and a few head-scratchers, most notably the bizarre 11-minute remix of "The NIght Is Still Young" which seems to exist for the sole purpose of occupying space. Ultimately, though, fans will find in this album some of the most satisfying deep cuts of the band's career, most notably the anthemic "Superstar". The album's closer, "On the Sunny Side of the Street", remains one of the band's most poignant moments.

Pizzicato Five - Overdose

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Energy Flow (U-Zhaan Rework)

1. 西城秀樹 Hideki Saijoh - "かぎりなき夏 (Kagirinaki Natsu)"
2. 石橋和子 Kazuko Ishibashi - "イーヨー (Iyo)"
3. アン・ルイス Ann Lewis - "imagination"
4. 中原理恵 Rie Nakahara -  "Sentimental Hotel"
5. 杉真理 Masamichi Sugi - "スキニー・ボーイ(Skinny Boy)"
6. 西城秀樹 Hideki Saijoh - "Through The Night"
7. 岩崎宏美 Hiromi Iwasaki - "カサノバL (Casanova L)"
8. 遠藤京子 Kyoko Endo - "銀色の夏 (Giniro No Natsu)"
9. 二名敦子 Atsuko Nina - "Hi-way 1"
10. 竹内まりや Mariya Takeuchi - "恋の終わりに (Koi No Owarini)"
11. 池田典代 Noriyo Ikeda - "冷たい雨 (Tsumetai Ame)"
12. 当山ひとみ Hitomi Tohyama - "ラヴ・コンペティション (Love Competition)"
13. 八神純子 Junko Yagami - "夜空のイヤリング (Yozora No Earring)"
14. 尾崎亜美 Ami Ozaki - "Love Is Easy"
15. 濱田金吾 Kingo Hamada - "Midnight Boxer"
16. 桑名晴子 Haruko Kuwana - "そして電話のベルは (Sosite Denwa No Bell-Wa)"
17.しばたはつみ Hatsumi Shibata - "セクシー・ブギ (Sexy Boogie)"
18. 吉田美奈子 Minako Yoshida - "愛は思うまま (Ai Wa Omou-mama)"
19. 河合奈保子 Naoko Kawai - "Manhattan Joke"
20. 菊池桃子 Momoko Kikuchi - "Off Limits"
21. 八神純子 Junko Yagami - "Communication"

PIZZICATO FIVE

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