#tetsuya komuro

[postpunkindustrial]

Tetsuya Komuro – Vampire Hunter D LP

Halloween Season - Vampire Soundtracks

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Sheena Ringo and Kodama Yuichi with Komuro Tetsuya at the backstage of her show in Saitama Super Arena, November 23, 2024.

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中森明菜 - 愛撫 Akina Nakamori - Aibu Akina's 28th single (MCA Victor) Composed and arranged by Tetsuya Komuro

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Koda Kumi con H Jungle with t (Tetsuya Komuro y Hamada Masatoshi) en el GOBU GOBU FESTIVAL 2024

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25th Anniversary

Ami Suzuki: SA (1999.03.25)

Like clockwork, as soon as Tetsuya Komuro got bored with his latest protege, he moved on to the next one. In 1998, he hopped from Tomomi Kahala to Ami Suzuki, who made her debut in July of that year with the single "love the island." She released five more singles after that until finally dropping her debut studio album SA in March of 1999.

Despite a public weary with his trademark style, now done to death with artists like hitomi, Tomomi, and Namie, not to mention his other projects like dos and globe, TK doubled down on his signature sound, particularly on the opening track "nothing without you": the keyboards, the synths, the funky rhythm and background vocals. Longtime collaborator Cozy Kubo's arrangement brings it all to a satisfying wistful lead-in to the second track. Anyone not already a fan can stop right there.

In terms of numbers, this album did really well for a debut, as expectations were high to for TK's next "It" girl, but in terms of quality, the music couldn't be a better representation of how dull, hackneyed, and by-the-numbers his music had become by then. The album still pulls out some solid songs that remind me how fun TK was at his best, songs like "alone in my room" and "white key" that do a great job of taking you back to J-pop circa 1996. But there are too many lazy melodies that don't get rounded out by the high-quality production we had come to expect. Mentally, I think TK was done with J-pop and ready to board the electric train right on out to Cyber TRANCE compilation town (you can especially hear this on the outlier "all night long," a sonic precursor to a song like "try this shoot," which he would write and release with globe two years later). He just couldn't compete with the rise in R&B and hip-pop that was beginning to sweep the charts with artists like Hikaru Utada and Mai Kuraki. It doesn't help that Ami Suzuki, like so many of the women he wrote music for, wasn't a good singer. Not as bad as Tomomi Kahala, and sufficient for the music we're dealing with, but noticeably patchy in places, and downright bad in others.

I sound really sour about this album, an album that for all my whining went #1 and ended up being the ninth best-selling album in Japan that year. To be honest, I still have a soft spot for this one, because it really sounds like TK is struggling to recapture a kind of magic that came so easily for him half a decade ago. There are parts of this that take you back to hitomi's early albums, and yet, the fight never stops being audible.

I still get nostalgic hearing TK's brand of 90s J-pop, and while there are still some good songs on here, I can objectively see that this was the last feeble roar of a dying dinosaur. It also really tells you nothing about Ami Suzuki as a person or performer, as she had both the good luck and misfortune to work with a producer so big, that it would take several more years for her to develop a light outside of his shadow. In many ways, she never did, as she always seemed to be at her best working under names as big as Yasutaka Nakata, RAM RIDER, and the others who featured on her best albums to date. In a really sad twist, the only way people got to know her as a person outside of music was during the scandal that followed her lawsuit against her management company. But that was years later. In 1999, while it may not have been fresh for any one else, it must have all still been new and exciting for her to get the chance to debut with a legend in the industry, and that hope and enthusiasm still shines through, albeit not easily, on SA.

Catalog Number: AICT-1050

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did you watch and search for them?

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Takanori Nishikawa with t.komuro - FREEDOM and “Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM” Collaboration MV

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華原朋美 I'm proud

このPVはヘリコプターの存在感がすごくあるイメージだったけど、改めて眺めてみると、その姿はそれほどでもないね

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C+C + TK - Silent Lover (1995)

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篠原涼子 with t.komuro / 恋しさと せつなさと 心強さと 2023 [MV]

しのりょうは相変わらず変わらないですが、合間に入るストⅡ初期からのメインキャラも時代の変遷とともに年を重ねたことに気付きます

▽ Youtube

https://youtu.be/oBE4lGvGUVg

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翠玲 - 恋をするたびに傷つきやすく… Suirei - Koi Wo Suru Tabi Ni Kizutsuki Yasuku... NURSE ANGEL Ririka SOS - 1st Opening Theme

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SixTONES - GOBU GOBU Festival

[postpunkindustrial]

Tetsuya Komuro - Fukkatsu

Halloween Season: Vampire Soundtracks

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"CHRISTMAS CHORUS," Tetsuya Komuro, 1989.