{"id":129,"date":"2008-02-17T01:07:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T01:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.tarogold.com\/2008\/02\/16\/diamond\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T18:17:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:17:35","slug":"diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diamond You album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in my J-pop days, I brought together a global collaboration of my talented friends to create what I like to think of as a multifaceted auditory diamond — a musical jewel for you — also known as my album,\u00a0The Diamond You<\/em><\/a>. It’s an international labor of love that was many years in the making. And although I’m glad my album was popular with the critics and public alike, nothing delighted me more than hearing my “uncle\u00a0Herbie” (jazz legend Herbie Hancock<\/a>) give me his personal review.<\/p>\n

I’d dropped off an advance copy of the album for Herbie when I visited him in LA, and before the album was released he came to Tokyo for some shows where he told me backstage one night “I listened carefully to every track. Great job, it’s really great. Everyone’s gonna love it.” Hearing these kind words, I felt a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment greater than any other compliment I received had evoked in me. That’s how much I respect Herbie’s opinion. And he was right, even people who don’t speak Japanese tell me they love it. Which is exactly what I was going for! Universal positive energy conveyed through music that transcends culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My album’s title is The Diamond<\/em> You<\/em><\/a>, and the way it was originally sold was under the genres of: J-pop, Pop, World, and Fusion.<\/p>\n

Here are the track listings for the version of The Diamond You<\/em><\/a> that’s available now on streaming platforms and iTunes outside of Japan:<\/p>\n

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  1. Love Star | \u611b\u661f\u3078<\/li>\n
  2. When Is Someday | \u3044\u3064\u304b<\/li>\n
  3. I Will Always Remember You | \u5fd8\u308c\u306a\u3044<\/li>\n
  4. Moonlight Dancing | \u30e0\u30fc\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30c8 \u30c0\u30f3\u30b7\u30f3\u30b0<\/li>\n
  5. Beautiful Nightmare | \u304d\u308c\u3044\u306a\u60aa\u5922<\/li>\n
  6. Slave To Love | \u30b9\u30ec\u30fc\u30d6 \uff12 \u30e9\u30d6<\/li>\n
  7. Let’s Start Over, Te Amo | \u3084\u308a\u76f4\u305d\u3046<\/li>\n
  8. The Tears Of Goodbye (with Dave Koz) | \u3055\u3088\u306a\u3089\u306e\u6d99<\/li>\n
  9. When Is Someday – Reprise | \u3044\u3064\u304b \u30ea\u30d7\u30e9\u30a4\u30ba<\/li>\n
  10. The Start Is Always Rain | \u306f\u3058\u307e\u308a\u306f\u3044\u3064\u3082\u96e8<\/li>\n
  11. Two Lights As One | \u3072\u3068\u308a<\/li>\n
  12. Diamond (The Diamond You) | \u30c0\u30e4\u30e2\u30f3\u30c9<\/li>\n
  13. Imagine | \u30a4\u30de\u30b8\u30f3<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can hear these tracks on Amazon Music<\/a>,\u00a0iTunes<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, and Tidal<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Taro\u2019s J-Pop project is a worldwide collaboration of talented friends who bring you a multifaceted musical Diamond.<\/p>\n

    \u201cTaro Gold\u2019s music is timeless, borderless… brilliant.\u201d
    Sir Elton John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}