Naomi Chiaki
Sotto Oyasumi
Columbia (Japan) 1976
PP-7005 (LP) w/obi (SPSE/TOC: tear and tape repair on bottom), Insert.
sleeve : VG+ (SPSE/TOC: 16cm tear and tape repair on top, some wear on side and corners)
media : EX-/EX- (some slightly surface noise. light scratches that do not affect playback)
An album released in 1976 by Naomi Chiaki, one of Japan's leading female singers, who, after rising to fame in the early 1970s with "dramatic kayō" hits like "Kassai," "Gekijō," and "Yakan Hikō," continued to absorb various musical styles and left behind numerous masterful performances before ceasing activities in 1992. This is a classic mood kayō masterpiece featuring adult arrangements by Makoto Kawaguchi. It includes covers of "Bed de Tabako o Suwanaide," a hit song sung by Tamaki Sawa in 1966 and later covered by Lily in 1978, and "Shiritakunai no," an American popular song with Japanese lyrics by Rei Nakanishi, sung by Yoichi Sugawara in 1967. Chiaki's captivating singing, hardly believable for a 29-year-old, centers on famous songs from the 60s. This is the last album produced by Columbia before the historically famous album "Amagumo" was released the following year, and her expressive power is truly extraordinary. B1, which covers a masterpiece by Seiji Hiraoka, a vibraphonist and singer-songwriter active from the 1950s to the 1960s, is particularly superb.
A1: Bed de Tabako o Suwanaide
A2: Tsume
B1: Tabako no Kemuri
B6: Sotto Oyasumi