Moon Riders Mega-Post 2

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Found these originally on the VAULT (RIP). J approves any re-posting of his ups.

Chris アーティスト - Poodle (1984)

Here's an album from Chris, with some of the Moon Riders as back-up band. Not bad. The sugary 50s-worshipping pop jams are more successful than the more rock-influenced tracks. More info here: http://diskunion.net/progre/ct/detail/IND06493

TRACKLISTING:
01.春のめざめ 　
作詞：柴山俊之　作曲：ＰＡＮＴＡ　編曲：岡田徹
02.夏にLai Lai I Like You 　
作詞：高橋修　作曲・編曲：岡田徹
03.あこがれファンタジア 　
作詞：鈴木博文　作曲・編曲：鈴木慶一
04.似てない似顔絵 　
作詞・作曲：近田春夫　編曲：白井良明
05.プードル 　
作詞：高橋修　作曲：鈴木慶一　編曲：白井良明
06.クリスの日曜日 　
作詞：高橋修　作曲：鈴木慶一　編曲：岡田徹
07.クリスはサーティーン 　
作詞：ＫＵＲＯ　作曲：西岡恭蔵　編曲：白井良明
08.家には帰れない 　
作詞：柴山俊之　作曲：ＰＡＮＴＡ　編曲：岡田徹
09.ミッドナイト・ロックンロール・パーティー 　
作詞：梅本洋一　作曲・編曲：鈴木慶一
10.クリスのララバイ 　
作詞：ＫＵＲＯ　作曲：西岡恭蔵　編曲：岡田徹

TRACKLISTING:
01. Spring Awakening
Lyrics: Shibayama, composer: PANTA, arranger: Toru Okada
02. Summer, Lai Lai I Like You
Lyrics: Takahashi Osamu composed/arranged by: Toru Okada
03. Longing for Fantasia
Lyrics: Masami Suzuki, composition, arrangement: Keiichi Suzuki
04. Do Not Like the Caricature
Lyrics/music: Haruo chikada arrangement: Yoshiaki Shirai
05. Poodle
Lyrics: Takahashi Osamu music: Suzuki Keiichi arrangement: Yoshiaki Shirai
06. Chris Sunday
Lyrics: Takahashi Osamu music: arranged by Suzuki Keiichi: Toru Okada
07. Chris is Thirteen
Author: KURO composer: Nishioka, storage arrangement: Yoshiaki Shirai
08. Go Home
Lyrics: Shibayama s., composer：PANTA arranger: Toru Okada
09. Midnight Rock 'n' Roll Party
Lyrics: Y. Umemoto, composition, arrangement: Keiichi Suzuki
10. Chris Lullaby
Author: KURO, composer: Nishioka, brewery arranger: Toru Okada

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Moon Riders Mega-Post

Used to be you could find these albums in a bunch of different places on the web. Now it seems like a lot of the blogs are gone and the leftover links dead. Here's a bunch of Moon Riders records. Not too much for me to report here, the Riders seem reasonably documented elsewhere.

MODERN MUSIC (1979)



CAMERA EGAL STYLO (1980)



MANIA MANIERA (1982)



AMATEUR ACADEMY (1984)

Rajie - 真昼の舗道 (1980)

A few days ago I posted Rajie's Quatre. Here's another album from Rajie, 真昼の舗道 from 1980. Alternately titled Pavement at Noon, A Midday Paved Road, or Le Trottoir Dapres-Midi, this album was originally released by CBS-Sony. A lot of the same YMO-family figures from Quatre appear, with the addition of Keiichi Suzuki and others.

01. ラスト・シーン/ Last Scene (Yoshitaka Minami/ Etsuko Kisugi)
02. 真昼の鋪道/ Pavement Midday (Yukihiro Takahashi/ Taeko Onuki)
03. 霧の部屋/ Room Mist (Etsuko Kisugi)
04. 偽りの鐘/ Bell Fake (Yukihiro Takahashi/ Kenji Omura)
05. アパルトマン/ Flat (Taeko Onuki)
06. ラジオと二人/ People and Radio (Sugi/ Shigesato Itoi)
07. ヨジレアン・ツイスト/ Yo Gillet Anne Twist (Keiichi Suzuki/ Shigesato Itoi)
08. みどりの声/ The Voice of Green (Akiko Yano)
09. 秋の嵐/ Storm in Autumn (Keiichi Suzuki/ Taeko Onuki)
10. 忘却/ Oblivion (Taeko Onuki)

Album Personnel (likely incomplete):
Production, drums, string arrangement: Yukihiro Takahashi
Synthesizer, bass: Goto (except 2,3,6,10)
Bass: Haruomi Hosono (2,6)
Guitar: Kenji Omura (except 3)
Keyboards: Toru Okada (except 3)
Synthesizer, keyboards: Ryuichi Sakamoto (2)
Keyboards: Akiko Yano (3,8,10)
Violin: Takashi Toyoda (1)
String arrangement: Nobuyuki Shimizu (3,6,9)



Discogs
YMO Works
Rajie Bio
Japan Wiki
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Rajie/ ラジ - Quatre (1979)

Here's an eclectic 1979 album from Rajie/ ラジ, alias of Honda Junko, member of Moonriders spin-off group Pony Tail. The album is listed as Quatre (Cattle) in some places. Some really nice early technopop jams here, like track six, "星に乗って", and track eight, "月の光". I'm not as keen on the ballads and fusion songs here, although they're certainly sure-handed representations of form. The final track, "キリンのいる風景", is a really nice conclusion, sounding both cosmic and minimalist, and recalling the opening jam, "キャトル". Junko's classicist vocals float effortlessly through the album, almost defiant of form.

The technopop songs here definitely have the YMO sound, as Yukihiro Takahashi produced the album. YMO Works says Akiko Yano and Sakamoto worked on the album. Discogs and Wiki don't offer much information. Yoshitaka Minami is the second voice on duet "ときと き魔法". Thanks to Youtuber "slimglam", here's some YMO/YEN-heavy information about some of the tracks:

02. "ときとき魔法"
Vocals: Rajie, Yoshitaka Minami
Drums: Yukihiro Takahashi
Bass: Tatsuya Honda
Guitar: Masaki Matsubara, Yuuji Toriyama
Keyboard: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Production: Yukihiro Takahashi

05. "風の道"
Vocals: Rajie
Piano, Synth: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Production: Yukihiro Takahashi

07. "クリスマス"
Vocals: Rajie
Drums: Mikiya Kazama
Bass: Tatsuya Honda
Guitar: Yuji Toriyama
Keyboard: Hiroshi Matsumoto
Keyboard: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Production: Yukihiro Takahashi

09. "一枚のフォトクラフ"
Vocals: Rajie
Lyrics: Kazumi Yasui
Production: Kazuhiko Kato
Production: Yukihiro Takahashi
Production: Ryuichi Sakamoto

If readers have more information I'd be very interested to learn more about Rajie. This biography doesn't cite any sources, but states Rajie worked with Yukihiro Takahashi, Tsugutoshi Goto, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Akiko Yano, Keiichi Suzuki, Yoshitaka Mitami, Taeko Onuki and Masamichi Sugi. You can check out her earlier album Heart to Heart over at Fenikon's Fusion World, where Fenikon claims that her early work was a big influence on fusion-lord Toshiki Kadomatsu.

Discogs
YMO Works
Rajie Bio
Japan Wiki
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