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Celebrating Takako Shirai's 40th anniversary ROD label distribution! Part 1
TAKAKO SHIRAI & The Crazy Boys + Jr. "NEXT GTAE 2022" .
A new version of "NEXT GATE" released in 1986! This is the first distribution of her representative song along with "Chance!" which led the way to be called the "Queen of Rock" in the 80's and led the era, from her own label ROD in 2022, the 40th anniversary of her debut!
If we can help lead the earth, which is in great turmoil with the Corona disaster and the "war" that can be called a "crisis of the earth" that should never have happened, "to the NEXT GATE of new happiness once again! With this in mind, the lyrics were further added. The new version of "NEAT GATE 2022" is a hybrid sound of "eco & rock" and is a re-born version of TAKAKO's soulful "NEAT GATE 2022"!
Words and music by Takako Shirai
Arranged by TAKAKO SHIRAI & The Crazy Boys + Jr.

The basic take was digitally recorded for a new 40th anniversary release, based on Shirai's "hybrid of eco and rock" idea, with Kiyomi Honda on guitar and Atsuo Katayama on keyboards for the Crazy Boys, and manipulator Kaizu, who participated on the album "Earth" released after the band's 25th anniversary revival. Recording began in 2017 with Ken's project. The epic scenes of the interludes were newly incorporated.
At the time, the era was still between CD and distribution. The plan was to record new versions of other 80s songs, but the Corona disaster interrupted the work.
Then came the 40th anniversary. Distribution has now become the norm, and this is the first time that the album will be released for distribution.
This new release is based on Shirai's theme song for the 61st "National Tree Planting Festival in Kanagawa Prefecture" in 2010, "Let's Go to the Forest! The new keyboardist is Yasunari Nakamura, who created the fresh and dynamic sound that Shirai himself called "rock of the earth" in his "Rock of the Earth" album.
NEXTGATE 2022" inherits everything from the genes of "Takako Shirai & Crazy Boys" in the 1980s to the new version, and has been reborn as a brushed-up song.
This is a new version of "NEXTGATE 2022" that is full of "TAKAKO`s mindset and full of life," which has been developed over the years, and which we hope you will listen to in this difficult time of "giving up" on everything, a sense of stagnation, anxiety, and fear.
Vo. Takako Shirai
Gt. Kiyomi Honda, Akio Minami
Key. Atsuo Katayama Yasunari Nakamura
Vn. Yoko Mukae

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  • TAKAKO SHIRAI

    Singer-songwriter In 1984, with the hit "Chance!", she became a pioneer of female pop rock, being called the "Queen of Rock" after her successful performances at Shibuya Live In 10 Days, Seibu Stadium, and Kosei-Nenkin 5 Days. From 1988 to 1990, she moved to London. After returning to Japan, she wrote and composed the lyrics and music for Kanagawa Prefecture's 21st century chorus "Furusato no Kaze ni Naritai (I want to be the wind in my hometown)" in 2001. In 2010, she wrote and composed the lyrics and music for the song "Let's Go to the Forest" for the 61st National Tree Planting Festival in Kanagawa. Wrote the lyrics and composed the theme song "We are a grain of life in a big world" for the World Conference on ESD held in Aichi Prefecture and Okayama City in 2014. In 2016, he was selected by Osamu Kitayama, lyricist and psychiatrist of Folk Crusaders, as "singer to sing Kitayama's works" and released the album "Tear River" including 3 new songs co-written by him. Caravaning 100,000 km overland to 150 locations across Japan! Her first solo exhibition, "Mother TSUNAGU Future," will be held at the Kyoto Butsuri Museum in 2019. Currently on Inter FM "Flower's Yell", a new song "Flower is blooming", which was created as a song to support the new life of Corona Disaster and care for the global environment, is aired weekly as a support song for the program. 40th anniversary live concert will be held at Otemachi Mitsui Hall on November 6, 2021. Summer. Narrated the narration for the Shinetsu Broadcasting System's documentary program "To-chan wa Thatch-shi" which became a nationwide broadcast. Received the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association Award for Excellence. Performed the cheering song "Flowers are Blooming" at the opening ceremony of "Tokyo Flower Carpet 2022" in the spring of 2022, in the presence of Her Imperial Highness Princess Nobuko Kanjin. Kanagawa Prefecture Environmental Ambassador, Odawara Hometown Ambassador, Ministry of the Environment 3R Promotion Meister, Fukui Prefecture Tannan Region "Koshi no Miyako" Goodwill Ambassador Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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