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Hello everyone,

Five of Seiko's new songs on the album "20th Party" are produced by Shinji Harada... 
"Shanghai Love Song"(#3), "Tsuyoi Mukaikaze no Naka de"(#4),
"Hitoshizuku no Namida"(#6), "Pretty Baby"(#7) and "Natsu-monogatari"(#10).

Before this album, he composed music of some songs on her albums;
The first works were "Pineapple Island"(#2) and "Pink no Scooter"(#6) on the "Pineapple"(1982),
the next ones were "Vacancy"(#1) and "Yozora no Story"(#6) on the "The 9th Wave"(1985),
and the last ones were "Honki ni SORRY"(#7) and "Morning Beach"(#11) on the "We Are Love"(1990).

Shinji Harada is really a musician(singer, guitar & piano player, song-writer)
and have released his original singles and albums since his debut in 1977...
Especially as for the above songs "Pineapple Island" and "Morning Beach",
it seems that he also sang the cover versions of them later
by rewriting the lyrics on his albums...

In a recent magazine interview, Seiko said that
when she was in high school before her debut as a singer, 
she was a big fan of him and used to love his music...
So now on the album "20th Party", it is interesting that
she tried a man's song "Tsuyoi Mukaikaze no Naka de"(#4)
which he originally sang on his album two years ago,
and that she performed a duet song "Natsu-monogatari"(#10) with him...

Besides it seems that he will join this year's Seiko concert tour
"20th Party" as a guest musician, on the other hand, Seiko also
as a special guest singer, will participate in a charity concert
which he plans for the evergreen forest of tutelary shrine
as a part of the conservation of nature(?), so he and she will perform
an open-air live show at the Meiji shrine("Meiji Jingu"), Tokyo on August 26...

Anyway, the Seiko concert tour "20th Party" will start next week, at Fukuoka on July 25...


Yaji from F.B.Tokyo