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Melocure to Release New CD 11 Years After Their Demise
posted on by Eric Stimson
The J-pop vocal unit Melocure will release a new CD, Melodic Super Hard Cure, on July 29, 11 years after their breakup. The CD will combine Melocure hits with rearranged versions by Mito of the band Clammbon, Suemitsu & the Suemith, Tatsuya Nishiwaki, and Keita Kawaguchi as well as Megumi Hinata's solo hits.
Melocure consisted of Megumi Hinata and Ritsuko Okazaki, two singers who had achieved success with songs such as Hinata's "Catch You Catch Me" (used as the opening theme to Card Captor Sakura) and Okazaki's "For Fruits Basket" (the opening theme for Fruits Basket). The unit formed in 2002 but dissolved in 2004 upon Okazaki's untimely death. The new CD's name is a reference to their 2004 album, Melodic Hard Cure.
The tracklist will be:
- Itoshii Kakera (opening theme to UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie)
- Agape (insert song for UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie)
- 1st Priority (opening theme to Stratos 4)
- So far, so near (insert song for Stratos 4)
- Himawari (ending theme for Stratos 4)
- Meguriai (opening theme for UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie 2: December Nocturne)
- All in All (ending theme for UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie 2: December Nocturne)
- Sunday Sundae (theme song to the "Melocure no Chinmoku no radio" radio show)
- rainbow kind of feeling (ending theme for Stratos 4 OAV)
- Pop Step Jump
- Niji o Mita
- Futari no Sekai
- birthday girl
- Kogarashi no Hodō o Hana no Saku Haru o
- Shiawase
- Home & Away (opening theme to Okusama wa Maho Shojo)
- So far, so near (acoustic ver.)*
- Agape (Mizu no Wakusei ver.)*
- Agape (remixed by Mito)*
- 1st Priority (rearranged by Suemitsu & the Suemith)*
- Home & Away (rearranged by Tatsuya Nishiwaki)*
- Futari no Sekai (rearranged by Keita Kawaguchi)*
- Natsu no Mukōgawa (opening theme to UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie 3: Bride of Celestial Souls' Day)✝
- Chiisa na Uta (ending theme to Stratos 4 Advance)✝
*rearrangements
✝ Megumi Hinata solo
Melocure has also been scheduled to perform in this year's Animelo Summer Live anime song concert.
[Via Otasuke; Image from HMV Online]
