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- Claudia Cragg
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- "Tokyo "All Aboard" Melodies"
- Summary: Melodies heard on Tokyo train platforms.
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Review of Tokyo "All Aboard" Melodies
Claudia Cragg
Posted on December 01, 2005 at 10:28 AM
O-medeto, Andy! I really like this piece. The quintessence, to me of so much in Japan, not just the subways. Was it just one composer from Yamaha or a team who worked on JNR's behalf?. And that was about the same time they were laying off so very many people so that they perhaps also used these sounds to soothe the harrowed 'wa' of their ex employees, many of whom they -- strangely -- put to work in coffee shops?
Please, now, do a follow-up/companion piece on commuter reaction
at the same stations. Again a short piece but with comments from Mr. Salaryman, Mrs Obaasan and a few school kids. I'd REALLY like to know what commuters think or do they just block it all out.?