As soon as I heard the first notes of this Yasuhiro Abe（安部恭弘）song, I figured that this was from the 1990s rather than the 1980s. There were the certain synthesizers at play here and nothing to hear from the Fender Rhodes this time around.
Sure enough, "Shizenha" (The Naturalist) comes from Abe's January 1993 9th album "Dear". Wasn't quite sure what to make of that title; I had images of a truly calm superhero in my mind...maybe played by Perry Como or even Abe himself (he seems like a really laidback dude). Regardless, those first notes that I mentioned in the previous paragraph are filled with some rich piano and saxophone. The overall atmosphere of "Shizenha" kinda has this one straddling the line between regular pop and City Pop; that bluesy sax kinda pulls things into that latter area, especially with those thoughts of the Big Apple floating in my mind.
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