Mother's Songs: Japanese Popular Songs [Import]

Ohno Tadasuke (Composer), Yoshinao Nakada (Composer), Ryutaro Hirota (Composer), Ikuma Dan (Composer), Kosaku Yamada (Composer), Minoru Kainuma (Composer), Haseo Sugiyama (Composer), Kunihiko Hashimoto (Composer), Sada Yanada (Composer), Fumihiko Fukui (Composer), Kozaburo Hirai (Composer), Ryoichi Hattori (Composer), Megumi Oanka (Composer), Rentaro Taki (Composer), Yoshikazu Mera (Performer), Natsuko Uchiyama (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Yoshikazu Mera, Natsuko Uchiyama
• Composer: Ohno Tadasuke, Yoshinao Nakada, Ryutaro Hirota, Ikuma Dan, Kosaku Yamada, et al.
• Audio CD (August 7, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bis
• ASIN: B0000016PZ
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #330,623 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Evening Primrose

2. I Found A Tiny Autumn

3. Being Scolded

4. Autumn Field

5. Red Dragonfly

6. Autumn In A Village

7. I Talked With The Fog

8. Being Kept Waiting In Vain

9. An Outgoing Ship

10. Lullaby

11. Flowery Town

12. Mother's Song

13. Plover

14. Rain In Johga-Sima

15. Over There, Over Yonder

16. Dried Gourd Shavings

17. That Child, This Child

18. Suzhou Nocturne

19. An Old Road

20. Strolling Around An Old Castle In Komoro

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ..a little more information, August 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mother's Songs: Japanese Popular Songs (Audio CD)

Mera is a male countertenor from Japan. He appears to be quite young and may be just starting his career. Whereas most countertenors I've heard have a boy-soprano, brassy sound, Mera has a mellow, mezzo sound with a nice vibrato. I've never heard a male voice like it.

All songs on the album are sung in Japanese. There are no translations of the songs, but there are summaries which give you an idea of what the song is about. The Japanese lyrics are included, so if you can read/translate them, you'll know more than I do. (If you do translate them, please contact me. I'd like to have copies.)

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, August 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mother's Songs: Japanese Popular Songs (Audio CD)

Mera has the most beautiful voice I've heard in a long time. Sounds like a female mezzo but with a little mellower sound. Anyway, this album has lighter fare than his Japanese art songs album, but it's still lovely to listen to. He sings some familiar and some not so familiar folk songs.

If you like this album, you might try his other album "Nightengale" (Japanese art songs).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars just beautiful, May 12, 2007

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Julia Byriel (NC, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mother's Songs: Japanese Popular Songs (Audio CD)

When I first bought this CD I was addicted for a while. The singing is beautiful and the music is too. I had hoped for more traditional japanese instruments but it is still beautiful.