Jin Kirigaya -- Taillight（テールライト）

Wow! Jin's a tonic.

OK, lame pun aside, Jin Kirigaya's（桐ヶ谷仁）"Taillight" is quite a nice and calming ballad for January 2nd, officially back to work here in Canada. Mind you, my work year has started off rather calmly already. Still, it's something very pleasant to the ears as I plow through those translations.

And for my ears, it's an intriguing mix of styles since some of that arrangement sounds somewhat Yuming-ish from that same time period; "Taillight" is a track on Kirigaya's 3rd album "Jin" from October 1983. There is that AOR feeling surrounded by some City Pop brass and bass, and the way that he sings is quite reminiscent of fellow urban contemporary singer Yasuhiro Abe（安部恭弘）. However, it is totally Kirigaya's creation, although Yumi Matsutoya（松任谷由実）herself and Minako Yoshida（吉田美奈子）helped out on some of the other tracks on "Jin".