Keiichiro Shibuya: Top 5 songs

Keichiro Shibuya

渋谷慶一郎
Musician

Electro-acoustic composer, head of label ATAK, designer, auteur... Is there no end to this man's talents?

Hibari Misora: Ringo Oiwake
美空ひばり『リンゴ追分』
'Hibari’s voice and the melody sound like they are bound together so tightly. Her voice sounds like the melody. I've not listened to this song for quite a while, but it remains in your heart. It sounds like Japan.'

Akiko Yano + Yuji Takahashi: Michi De Battari
矢野顕子＋高橋悠治『みちでバッタリ』
'This song was written to be included on Akiko’s album. It sounded extremely original to me when I first heard to it. The melody has a Japanese aspect but the whole song is based on a synthesizer. "Goodnight” is also another song with the same combination, and I might like “Goodnight” better, but I chose this one. I don’t know why.'

Ringo Shiina: Kuki (STEM)
椎名林檎『茎 (STEM)』

'I like Shiina Ringo’s voice. I downloaded this song via iTunes and it's great, but I think that her voice, the scale and the way she expresses herself - it's hallucinatory. This kind of amplitude is very Japanese for me, in a modern way. I like her other songs but this song is special for me.'

Kiyoshiro Imawa: Slow Ballad
忌野清志郎『スローバラード』
'Kiyoshiro is a vocalist that I like a lot. I like his other songs as well. This song, and his “Ameagari No Yozorani”, have caught the interest of my foreign friends, in fact. I watched “Hitotudake” on YouTube, which was written by Kiyoshiro together with Akiko Yano, and I thought that was great, too.'

Soutaiseiriron + Keiichiro Shibuya: Blue
相対性理論＋渋谷慶一郎『BLUE』


'I like the above four songs but it is true that I haven’t listened to them, excluding Ringo Shiina, for quite a while. I just tried to remember typically Japanese songs from memory. Perhaps this means that there are few songs that sound typically Japanese. "Blue" is one of my songs. I chose this one because we plan to start music downloads on the overseas market through "Our Music" shortly and I was interested to know how foreigners would react to it.'