This year2013 is the 25th anniversary year of the career ofSing Like Talking, and members' 50th birthday. The closing of this anniversary year is Chikuzen's first Christmas album.
There are a lot of Christmas songs of all kinds of music in the world. And in the Occident, various musicians make release of Christmas albums. In our country, there are compilation albums of Christmas songs by various musicians. But this is the first album specialized in Christmas by one musician in Japan
. Even so, Chikuzen declares on his microblog that he never loses himself in commercial projects
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And Christmas has been thought to be an event for lovers, and a merrymaking season to enjoy year-end parties. So a funny sense of obligation prevail that single people must find someone to spend Christmas together. evaluation of Christmas and New Year's Eve is reverse in the Occident and Japan, and about the background how commercialized Christmas has infiltrated, I suspect that one of the backgrounds is thatDecember 23, the day before Christmas Eve, is a national holiday from quarter century ago, and that makes people feel as if Christmas season is extended. Excuse me for sidetracking...
Chikuzen hopes that mature way to spend Christmas season will be common in Japan
; Enjoying time with family, giving thoughts of people, world, and peace... So he tried to create an album suitable for time with hospitality
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First, he selected six songs to cover by message of the lyrics. He focused on images of Christmas uncommon in Japan. Standard songs like "Winter Wonderland" are included, too. He wrote two new songs for this album; "Christmas Moon" and "Julie In arranging those songs, he expressed warm atmosphere like chamber music
. Don't worry about the language barrier; all the songs including two songs he wrote are English. Chikuzen plans to keep on creating a series of Christmas albums in the future, so I hope even one of his those songs will be new standard Christmas songs someday, like Tatsurou Yamashita
's " Christmas Eve