Kissing Me Softly

Kissing Me Softly (K.M.S.). This album, whose album cover features the expression of a lovely woman, is a collection of newly released songs by Takemi Otsuki, a physician and musician who is a professor of hygiene at Kawasaki Medical School in Kurashiki City. While his previous albums featured new recordings of old songs from his high school and college days, this new album is a compilation of recent songs that expresses the present. The album also includes a song about a wavering love affair symbolized by the jacket photo, a song written by an employee of the Post-Graduation Clinical Training Center of Kawasaki Medical School to cheer up residents, a song with a message for students aiming to enter the field of welfare, and a song that came out of a project for a local AM radio program that she appeared regularly on in 2010. The songs are full of songs that accompany the desire to look forward and move forward in each and every situation of life. In particular, the song "3.11 After 3.11," which was sung on the radio as an expression of support for the victims of "3.11," which occurred during the period when he was in charge of the radio program, is a condensed version of the feelings that support the ongoing tireless efforts toward reconstruction, and delivers the strength of those feelings to the disaster-stricken areas. The "K.M.S." in the album actually stands for Kawasaki Medical School. The song "K.M.S." is a song of support for students who pledge to support those suffering from illnesses with their knowledge, skills, and passion, from a bright and fun place to study. To be close to each other, to support each other, to encourage and embrace each other, and to trust each other. These 11 songs remind us of the importance of these things.