I'd assumed that this would be the first entry for bassist and singer-songwriter Yasushi Sasamoto（笹本安詞）, but I was wrong there. I had written about him before albeit he was under the name DeVoice for a duet with Masami Yoshimoto（吉村まさみ）for the song "Delight of my love" which was released in 2002.
However, we're going further back in time by about a decade. According to one bio on him, Sasamoto had helped form a rap unit in the mid 1990s known as Shitamachi Kyoudai（下町兄弟...The Downtown Brothers）, but earlier on, he had also been doing his solo work with a self-produced album "Never Give Up" coming out in 1992 as his debut. In 1993, he released a full album "Wish" and from this, I offer the ballad "Ai wa Tasogare no Naka ni ~ I can't stop lovin' you" with the direct translation being "Love is in the Sunset". With lyrics by Yumi Yoshimoto（吉元由美）and melody by Sasamoto, the strings add further poignancy to this soulful love song and of course, we just gotta have that mellow flugelhorn in there as well.
You know me, I like those horns, and the flugelhorn is no exception to the rules!
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