Ryohei Yamanashi -- Hidarikiki no Onna（左ききの女）

by Ian Muttoo via Wikimedia Commons

 

I can always count on singer-songwriter Ryohei Yamanashi（山梨鐐平）to come up with something that is urban, urbane and stylish with some jazziness. His fashion sense certainly shows the same thing.

"Hidarikiki no Onna" was a 1982 single as well as a track on Yamanashi's debut album from the same year, "Tweed". Apparently, its English subtitle is "Woman in the Rain" from the singer's lyrics but it can also be translated as "The Left-Handed Woman" or even "Woman Who Loves Her Drink"; that latter meaning was something that I hadn't known before. In any case, the potential double meaning in the title merely adds to the sultry mystery that the song provides. I do love those tight horns, the disco strings and the jazzy saxophone. This can only be a nocturnal pop song of the city.