Chikara Ueda & The Power Station / Keishichou Satsujinka Soundtrack / Columbia AF-7055 / 1981
Urban mellow tension—“Breeze In Memories” quietly steals the whole record.
Composed by Chikara Ueda, this 1981 detective drama soundtrack sits deep in the Japanese jazz-funk spectrum—raw, cinematic, and quietly sophisticated.
While the record moves through tight funk and fusion cuts, the real moment comes on “Breeze In Memories.”
A drifting electric piano line, wrapped in soft groove and late-night air—pure urban mellow.
Not flashy, not loud—just that unmistakable Japanese sense of space and restraint.
A sleeper cut that lingers longer than anything else on the record.
