Tokyo Mokuyo Gakudan -- Oyasumi（おやすみ）

 

As I mentioned in that Hitomi Ishikawa（石川ひとみ）article yesterday, I was kindly treated to some Salvadoran fare for lunch and it was my first time (on the cusp of 60, no less) to have pupusas, which are these flatbreads stuffed with meat, vegetables and other ingredients. Very tasty and filling, and I couldn't finish the whole thing since there were other items ordered as well. My friend's wife is a big fan of pupusas as well, so she probably was very grateful to get the remainder that I couldn't finish as a doggie bag.

Not sure if Salvadoran cuisine has made it over to Japan but wouldn't it be quite the thing if I were able to get a decent pupusa at a Lawson's or am/pm past midnight? In any case, this has made for a somewhat nice segue into the mellow music of Tokyo Mokuyo Gakudan（東京木曜楽団...Tokyo Thursday Band）. I wrote their first and only article on them (that is, until today) back almost exactly three years ago when I posted their "Mayonaka no Service Area"（真夜中サービスエリア）. Having a pupusa from one of those highway service areas and then noshing on it in the passenger seat of a car driving through the Kanto during the midnight hours may be a nice experience.

As I wrote on "Mayonaka no Service Area", Tokyo Mokuyo Gakudan doesn't have a lot written about them, although I hope that they still get together every Thursday night for their sessions. But I was able to find another short-and-sweet song by them titled "Oyasumi" (Good Night) that is also from 2019 and retains that groovy mellowness in the arrangement. This time though, it starts with some Xmas jingling bells, so I am wondering whether it is Yuletide-themed, but I don't get the impression that the vocalist is relating anything about any impending Christmas. I think it is a well-titled song since after having that loaded pupusa while listening to "Mayonaka no Service Area", I really might go "Oyasumi" for the next several hours.