This slicked-up, smooth-jazz vocal version of “Sōranbushi,” an old traditional folk song of the Japanese O-Bon Festival season, is one of the top tracks on Camaru’s 2006 debut CD in Japan, Just As I Am. Video stills selected from Wikimedia Commons.
Singer Camaru’s website: http://camaru.info
“Just As I Am” Album:
http://cart05.lolipop.jp/LA03653850/?mode=ITEM2&p_id=PR00101346725
All about “Sōranbushi” on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dran_Bushi
“Sirius [True Mind Version]”
The original music and lyrics of “Sirius” were composed by Nobuyuki Mizuoka.
Mizuoka-san has a bottomless creative capability that may very well catapult him to great heights as an international-caliber composer-arranger. And how wonderful it would be for that to happen in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics!!
The melodies of Composer-Pianist Nobuyuki Mizuoka are routinely featured in the background music of the TV-Asahi Channel's weekly “秘湯ロマン (Hot Spring Romance)” program in Japan.
