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lisa wrote:no idea - just a photographer's model

dang.....here I thought you knew everything.

From her intimate knowledge and confidence I suspect that Lisa is Yuka!

John Trevethan wrote:From her intimate knowledge and confidence I suspect that Lisa is Yuka!

That would be awsome

haha, very funny you guys! ... so then i could even be david, mick, steve, richard, rob, masami... david rhodes, simon n.b. ... or any number of associates, tour personnel or company staff. but actually i'm just me which isn't so bad! aren't we all no more than six degrees from anyone else? often less. so one hears and one learns over the years which, lets face it, are more than we'd care to admit.

Is it Yuka's voice at the beginning of Nostalgia on Brilliant Trees?

from a 'persian' recording i think - perhaps influenced by Czukay's 'movies' track 'persian love'?

It was definitely Yuka on Still Life In Mobile Homes, wasn't it?

I'm not sure if that is her, but she does appear in the Visions of China video

lisa wrote:no,no,no... there are no real vocals on this track, they were all lifted from real ethnic recordings. it's a co-write between jansen and sylvian. yuka has NEVER contributed vocals to any japan recording except for spoken word. she said the line 'my tin drum' at the end of the track 'talking drum' from the album 'tin drum'. let's keep it real here.

One of the vocalists is Sandii, though not credited on the record; the male vocalist may be David or maybe Makoto Kubota. Compare it to some of her vocals on "Dhyana Pura" from "Heat Scale" and "Oinori" from "Eating Pleasure". The track has been included in a discography of her session work. To be fair, I did think for over 20 years that it was probably an archive recording.

About Yuka, I believe it's her voice on both Talking Drum and Still Life In Mobile Homes; but not on Nostalgia, as the voice comes from one of Holger Czuckay's tapes. If you see "The Secrets of Japan" you can see him manually "playing" the tape (which looks like a really strange format BTW) to make the sound wow and flutter. No way would he be able to make it sound the same twice. I think the doc shows him recording "Weathered Wall" but the same effect must have been applied on Nostalgia.

karnsculpture wrote:

lisa wrote:no,no,no... there are no real vocals on this track, they were all lifted from real ethnic recordings. it's a co-write between jansen and sylvian. yuka has NEVER contributed vocals to any japan recording except for spoken word. she said the line 'my tin drum' at the end of the track 'talking drum' from the album 'tin drum'. let's keep it real here.

One of the vocalists is Sandii, though not credited on the record; the male vocalist may be David or maybe Makoto Kubota. Compare it to some of her vocals on "Dhyana Pura" from "Heat Scale" and "Oinori" from "Eating Pleasure". The track has been included in a discography of her session work. To be fair, I did think for over 20 years that it was probably an archive recording.

About Yuka, I believe it's her voice on both Talking Drum and Still Life In Mobile Homes; but not on Nostalgia, as the voice comes from one of Holger Czuckay's tapes. If you see "The Secrets of Japan" you can see him manually "playing" the tape (which looks like a really strange format BTW) to make the sound wow and flutter. No way would he be able to make it sound the same twice. I think the doc shows him recording "Weathered Wall" but the same effect must have been applied on Nostalgia.

I used to have a cassette by the woman whose voice is heard on "Nostalgia". She is Persian I believe. This stuff is lost in my memory bank. If I remember I will post it.

The vocals sampled at the start of "Nostalgia" are by Shusha Guppy. The track is called "The Silver Gun". She died recently in London. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxG37CpSq5k

well done Missouriman and it is quite a haunting track which I was sure I had heard before as I think Robert Palmer covered it

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you !!

chet: i always thought it was gaby agis on the cover of pop song.

i also assumed (or maybe i read... it's so long ago now) that it was gaby in the silver moon video.

according to the book the last romantic: "a talented photographer and something of a singer, fujii actually contributed backing vocals to tim drum, her winsome voice used to great effect on the track 'still ife in mobile homes'.