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Wow, animarorecords - this blew me away! An excellent display of exactly what Band-in-a-Box can be capable of. This is a first class production, and I actually don't think anything could be done to make it better. Easy to listen to and get lost it - it's truly captivating. Excellent, excellent work  Keep 'em coming!
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Hello, Noel
Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your very very kind words and your continuous supports.
Your comments are always very welcome.
Yes, Natsuki is a very good vocalist. I always appreciate her very much.
And I also appreciate my music circle friends.
Thanks to learning music with them I can still continue music now.
Best regards.
Shigeki Adachi
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Hello, Deryk
Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your very very kind words.
Yes, Band-in-a-Box is a really wonderful application.
MIDI styles or RealTracks, I always get a lot of inspiration from them.
I would like to continue to post my songs to this forum.
Best regards.
Shigeki Adachi
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I so love this track. What a beautiful voice. I'd love to hear an English version of these songs. Fabulous. Added to my Soundcloud listening.
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Hello, lambada
Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your positive feedback.
I am very glad you like this tune and Natsuki's vocal.
I would like to produce my songs in English someday, but it is too hard to write English lyrics for Japanese.
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Shigeki Adachi
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I could listen to the vocals all day. it's such a beautiful song! I love when lyrics are written in such a way that anyone can relate, and you have done this beautifully. I could have easily believed this song was written about me! I guess that just proves how talented you guys are.
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Ember
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Hello, Ember
Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your positive feedback.
And many thanks for your comment to the lyrics.
The lyrics were written by Chisato, a female lyricist belonging to the amateur lyricist group named "Escargot" with deep interaction with our music circle.
We are constantly making a lot of works jointly.
This song is one of them.
I am very glad you like this tune and Natsuki's vocal.
Best regards.
Shigeki Adachi
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This is absolutely one beautiful song! My type of song, nice and smooth. Everything blend perfectly.
This is a keeper.
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Shigeki, smooth and lovely!! the vocal on this is wonderful!! Thanks, Torrey
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Hello, Mario and Torrey
Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your positive feedback.
I am very glad both of you like this tune.
Best regards.
Shigeki Adachi
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Dear Shigeki...
I "fell in love" with Bossa Nova at such a young age that I can hardly remember which of the most famous tunes in that genre I heard first, but I'm reasonably sure it was Antonio Carlos Jobim's album on the Verve label titled, "Antonio Carlos Jobim, the Composer of Desafinado, Plays."
Listening to your compositions has convinced me that you are a musical "chameleon" who absorbs everything you've heard, and then, you take what you've listened to and make something very and distinctly your own with it.
Your Bossa Nova composition, "Precious", is just another example of the fruitful results of what I described above. Your instrumental arrangement is a coolly rhythmic and perhaps even danceable piece of Bossa Nova elegance.
Forum member "VideoTrack" made an amazingly insightful comment about Ms. Yoshikawa's singing that I wish I had thought of first: "She holds a conversation with the vocals in this song". Nothing could be more true, Shigeki. Her voice is as clear, as expressive, and as playful as a young girl's, yet at the same time delightfully sensuous. It's the waves above the undercurrent of your luxurious music.
I don't know where her own piano playing began and ended in your track, but wherever it came in, it only added to the jazzy "Brazilian-ness" of your song. Each stanza of the lyrics are like some new kind of musical "haiku."
The late jazz music "critic" Barry Ulanov described the title track of a Dave Brubeck album, "Time In', as "a fine thing, a sweet thing, a twilight thing." Those are deliciously descriptive and evocative words to communicate the essence of the feel of a piece of music, but I couldn't stop them from rising out of my memory as I listened to "Precious." I hope he won't mind that I borrowed them and offered them to you and Ms. Yoshikawa.
Sincerely,
"bluage" (a.k.a. Loren)
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Dear Loren,
Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment.
I much appreciate your very kind words.
I am very happy you like this tune.
And many thanks for your nice comments to the vocal, piano and lyrics.
Tom Jobim is one of my favorite composers.
I have studied his music continuously.
In the meantime I gradually became aware of something like Bossa Nova's trick.
I would like to challenge various genres of music from now on.
Sincerely,
Shigeki Adachi
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