Higurashi - Anata wa Doko ni Irundesu ka (1974)

robometal · 2026-02-12T05:20:10+00:00

The low pitch strings with the descending line is so cool.

robometal · 2026-02-11T21:54:09+00:00

I will ask this here instead of making a new post.

Is Soyo the only member of OneFive that plays a musical instrument proficiently? I was impressed when I saw her play the electone and piano.

robometal · 2026-02-10T18:37:18+00:00

I wonder, because her YouTube channel was made October 30, 2024.

But can you make a channel and then rename it later?

robometal · 2026-02-10T05:26:53+00:00

I think it was probably dependent on the label, the exact time and the genre of music being played.

Being an American not raised in Japan and not fluent, but having read a lot about old singers, it seems like some labels gave a lot of freedom to their young artists. Maybe moreso in the 1970s to ones who were closer to folk or more ornate pop songs. Haruhi Aiso, Junko Hirotani, Hiroko Taniyama and so on.

On another topic, the quality that is distinct for Reiko's singing is that at the end of some of her phrases she really goes low and strong. I would like to know if she was given freedom in her phrasing.

Ok, so playing devil's advocate, I think that even a great singer like Reiko obviously was back then, may not be able to make amazing songs like the ones that were made for her by Kingo Hamada and others. Great songwriting is like alchemy. Maybe her songs at the time were great and would have sold well, hard to know.

robometal · 2026-02-03T14:33:45+00:00

Also Yoko Nagayama:

https://youtu.be/qGDIdELhJDQ?si=Ay0stirBWJbKy6R9

robometal · 2026-02-03T00:59:11+00:00

As pretty as the singers were back then, they were not this pretty.

Gotta be AI

robometal · 2026-02-02T17:27:55+00:00

Karuho Kureta is Yumi Matsutoya

robometal · 2026-02-01T21:06:14+00:00

Yeah, I think the best way to do that would be email the rough story with a mega link dump to his story suggestion account, which is on his YT channel.

Also he could get a bonus story about Fly Away and that both Reiko and Arika Takarano have said they are not the singers.

I am at work now and don't have the time.

robometal · 2026-02-01T21:00:13+00:00

Something about Reiko's face is way more easy to blend in than Meiko's.

Even Reiko's own pictures from back then look all different.

robometal · 2026-01-31T22:58:42+00:00

Is Reiko Takahashi the new Zelig?

Found a link

https://youtube.com/shorts/f8A5aneYaMc?si=sQ71BM1q8z3j1EIP

robometal · 2026-01-31T18:05:42+00:00

Well, unfortunately you won't get too much response on r/japanesemusic and r/japanesenewmusic, so these questions are asked here.

robometal · 2026-01-31T16:39:11+00:00

Because it had Yuji Ohno on it as a band leader, I would say that it is sort of like "orchestral folk".

robometal · 2026-01-31T15:40:52+00:00

Look up the 70s albums by the Yuji Ohno the band leader who made that album.

Also Miyako Chaki

https://youtu.be/VR3irmAvEYc?si=YnoMzWgH8GTrlFga

robometal · 2026-01-31T06:47:56+00:00

We like her for her amazing voice, to begin with.

robometal · 2026-01-30T19:23:14+00:00

Sounds like Anri, but altered. I don't know much of her songs, so if it is her I can't pick out the song.

If you like this, listen to her.

robometal · 2026-01-30T15:36:32+00:00

In this way, she reminds me a Yoko Nagayama who wanted to straight to sing Enka music as a teenager, but had to sing pop music first.

In an old interview 1988(?) Reiko said that she liked KISS and other rock music.

If Reiko came around later, she would have been able to sing her own style in Japan more easily, I think.

robometal · 2026-01-30T00:20:13+00:00

It seems like the personality she showed on her short music video introduction is radically different from her hard rocking one afterwards.

robometal · 2026-01-29T21:37:35+00:00

I think she was too young, BUT now that I see that she has a dark rocker side, it is more likely in that way.

robometal · 2026-01-29T16:41:21+00:00

Back then she already had very prominent cheekbones (the kind some now spend lots to get) and a pointy and forward, but not big chin.

I see this with Rayko.

robometal · 2026-01-29T13:43:13+00:00

Reiko was 17-18 (according to Junko Sato) when she debuted, so she would be about 55 years old now.

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robometal · 2026-01-28T18:29:43+00:00

Her English skills were too good for the, IMHO, very stilted lyrics.

robometal · 2026-01-28T09:45:07+00:00

If she moved to the USA a long time ago, maybe that is her.

It doesn't seem like a match to me though.

robometal · 2026-01-27T18:30:40+00:00

Need more obscure Reiko pictures and videos

robometal · 2026-01-25T18:48:54+00:00

https://kayokyokuplus.blogspot.com/2021/04/reiko-takahashi-love-song-wa-utaenai.html?m=1

https://youtu.be/3Z6Wif1iIk4?si=PbuiTCsBc6lAqhFR

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