Tomoko Soryo -- Owari no Nai Uta（終わりのない歌）

Well, work is done for another week. I can kick back a bit and listen to something slightly more calming.

For example, this one song here. This is Tomoko Soryo's（惣領智子）4th single from 1978, "Owari no Nai Uta" (Song Without End). What I like about it is the fact that it seems to dip into a few genres through its arrangement. I get that countryside folk feeling, that sensation of New Music since I can believe that it could have been created in America, and just that hit of pop. I especially like that harmonica to add that much more nostalgia.

The singer's husband at that time, Yasunori Soryo（惣領泰則）, composed and arranged the music while Kohei Oikawa（及川恒平）took care of the lyrics about a woman singing a song that could represent a certain fateful time in her life with her beloved and perhaps one other. What also appeals to me is how Tomoko's voice can weave between proud and defiant one moment and then veer into tender and whispery the next. Overall, it is a very refreshing number. "Owari no Nai Uta" was also the first track on her 3rd album "Tomoko Now and Then", also released in the same year.