Credits:

Naomi & Goro,,Ito Goro

Description:

Popular bossa nova duo, naomi & goro, release their first new album in six and a half years. Naomi Fuse, with her beautiful angelic voice, and Goro Ito, a guitarist/arranger in the direct lineage of Joao Gilberto, who has composed music for movies and TV animation, and is also active as a producer for Tomoyo Harada. This new album, their first in six years since "RIO TEMPO" (2016), consists of nine songs in total, including new songs and covers of classic songs from the past and present. The three new songs are all newly written by Ito Goro. The songs include "Christmas Eve" (Tatsuro Yamashita), "December Rain" (Yumi Arai), a Japanese pop classic associated with December, "My Song is Your Song" (Elton John), "Edelweiss" (The Sound of Music), and "Au Champs Elysees," sung in French. Champs Elysées" (Elton John), "Edelweiss" (Sound of Music), and even "Au Champs Elysées" and "By the River" (Fauré), sung in French. This is the quintessential work of the group, which has consistently performed with an emphasis on the resonance of chords and words.