Title: Marvelous
Product review: Rie Fu writes great songs that just flow naturally, with evocative lyrics and interesting music. Her style touches several genres, but I can't put it in a single category -- it's like nothing I've heard, yet quite distinctive in itself. The songs on this album range from mellow to driven, and her seamless mixing of Japanese and (good) English is something that is quite marvelous.I agree with the other reviewers' opinions, so I won't bother repeating them. My favorite song on this album, though, is "Tsuki no ue" ("Over the Moon", or "Above the Moon"). To describe it briefly, it's a song with mellow guitar but a solid beat. The chords are simple, but the melody wanders to interesting places. The first half is in Japanese, and the second half in English; it's not a translation between halves. The Japanese lyrics are somewhat metaphorical, but the English is even more so, which really gets me.This is an import, so it's pricey, but Amazon's price is particularly egregious.
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