[WORLD GROOVE] Currently listening to Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers – Singers Limited – Golden Mood Hits!
January 18, 2008 by Dennis Amith
ARTIST: Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers
ALBUM: Singers Limited – Golden Mood Hits!
LABEL: JUSTA RECORD/RhythmZone
CATALOG #: RZCD-45442
DURATION: 59:12
RELEASE DATE: September 13, 2006
- Daydream Believer – Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers feat. Ryoji & Rankin’ Taxi
- ICE BALL – Kaori Takeda
- Kitto Ieru – Furuichi Toko
- I FOUGHT THE LAW – Hazime Ohmori
- Your Eyes – BONNIE PINK
- Something- Yukihiro Takahashi
- ONE STEP FORWARD – Kaori Takeda
- luna cruise -Maki Nomimiya
- One on One – Yukiko Hayashi
- You’ll Never Get to Heaven – Kaori Takeda
- Maken Samba II- Ken Matsudaira
- Inori – Moodmakers Remix – Keyco
- Yoku aru koto jyanai – Akiko Wada
- CRY MOON – Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers
The best album featuring TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA’s bass player Kawakami Tsuyoshi released his reggae themed album “Singers Limited – Golden Mood Hits!” featurings artists such as BONNIE PINK, Furuichi Toko, Wada Akiko and many others singing covers of songs by The Beatles, The Monkeys, Hall & Oates and many more.
A lot of the songs were featured on previous albums, CD singles and other artist’s albums that collaborated with Kawakami.
His Moodmakers was formed back in 2001 and features musicians from TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA, Little Tempo and Reggae Disco Rockers.
The first track “Daydream Believer” features Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers feat. Ryoji and Rankin’ Taxi doing a cover of the popular The Monkeys classic and giving a reggae and Japanese reggae and hip-hop spin to the song.
The second track “ICE BALL” sung by Takeda Kaori features an all English song and was released as a 7-inch CD single back in July 2005. The song was also featured on the album “mood in”
The third track “Kitto Ieru” by Furuichi Toko is a cover of the 1973 hit song by Arai Yumi. The song was featured on the album “moodmakers’ mood”.
The fourth track features Ohmori Hazime singing an English cover of the popular The Clash hit “I FOUGHT THE LAW”. The song was originally featured on the album “London Punk 1977 Tribute Album”.
The fifth track is a reggae version of BONNIE PINK’s “Your Eyes” from her album REMINISCENCE and was originally by Yamashita Tatsurou.
The sixth track “Something” is a cover of the popular George Harrison Beatles song which is sung by Takahashi Yukihiro (lead vocalist of YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA) and was originally featured in the album “moodmakers’ mood”.
The seventh track “ONE STEP FORWARD” is by Takeda Kaori and was released as a 7-inch CD single back in September 2005 by Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers. Also, the song was feature on the album “mood inn”.
The eighth track “luna cruise” features lyrics by Nonimiya Maki (Pizzicato Five) and was originally from her album “Lady Miss Warp” (2002).
The ninth track “One On One” is a cover of the Hall & Oates classic sung by Hayashiyukiko and was original featured on the album “moodmakers”.
The tenth track “You’ll Never Get To Heaven” is a cover of the popular Burt Bacharach song. The song was sung by Takeda Kaori and was originally featured on the album “moodmakers’ mood”.
The eleventh track “Maken Samba II” is a reggae remix of the popular Ken Matsuidaira song and originally featured on the album “Maken Samba II Remix Tracks”.
The twelve track “Inori (Moodmakers Remix)” is sung by Keyco and from her 2002 album “Impressions”.
The thirteenth track “Yoku aru koto jyanai” is a reggae remix of her song featured on Wada’s “RAGGA AKIKO” album.
The fourteenth track “CRY MOON” is sung by Takeda Kaori and was originally featured on the album “mood in”.
The CD insert booklet features the lyrics to the songs, musician credits and a message from Yamaguchi “Gucci” Yoshihiro of RAKSTONE RECORDS.
I’m always interested in hearing works from musicians and members of TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA and for Kawakami Tsuyoshi, I liked his works with incorporating reggae music to Japanese songs and featured on this album are very cool songs and covers of the original songs from his previous albums and albums of other artists.
There is a cool all-star line up of sorts with legend Wada Akiko and Takahashi Yukihiro and the reggae-fied versions of the original songs from BONNIE PINK and Arai Yumi are very cool and well done.
All in all, the music is top notch and definitely an album that has kept in rotation in my CD player for many months.
All in all, a very cool album worth checking out if you are a fan of Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers or Kawakami’s works in general. Definitely worth checking out!
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