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Naomi & Goro

CD (2006)

333Discs      Naomi & Goro : Home (for 1+Stylers) (JAP,2006)***°

This duo plays stylish and warm interpretations of various known (and mainstream) covers. The female vocalist has a beautiful clearwater silver voice, and the guitarist’s almost classical, stylish jazzy playing of the guitar is like gold. Their interpretations are made and done for and come often close to perfection. Their pronunciation of the different languages they sing in is also remarkably well done. The bossanova songs, as well as the re-established rock and pop songs fit very well together so that I can imagine them being performed well on a sophisticated concert evening, with a duo not to far away from a selected public and occasion.

Tracks : "will you dance?" (Janis Ian), "goodbye" (Paul McCartney), "Les Copains d'abord" (George Brassens), "me,japanese boy I love you" (Hal David/Burt Bacharach), "ecountant la pluie (rhythm of the rain)" (John Clausde Gummoe), "top of the world" (John Bettis,Richard Carpenter), "beauty & the beast" (Howard Ashman, Alan Menken), "estrada branca" (Vincencius de Moreas, Antonio Carlos Jobim),"over the rainbow" (Harburg, Harold Arlen).

Homepage : http://www.naomiandgoro.jp/index_e.html

with Japanese info on album : http://www.naomiandgoro.jp/disco/pages/origi05.html

and label info with audio : http://www.333.ro/releases/026/index.html

Another project by Naomi & Goro in combination with other side-projects is reviewed on http://www.psychemusic.org/JAPANreviews3.html#anchor_82

Goro Ito's solo project is called Moose Hill. This is reviewed also reviewed on the same page on http://psychemusic.org/JAPANreviews3.html#anchor_76

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