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Sunday, May 24, 2020

Maaya Sakamoto -- Kayoubi(火曜日)


Realizing that considering the title, maybe I'm jumping the gun by putting this one up on a Sunday, but it's a very pleasant Sunday-worthy ballad.


I'm talking about singer-seiyuu Maaya Sakamoto's(坂本真綾)"Kayoubi" (Tuesday), a track from her November 2019 10th album "Kyou dake no Ongaku"(今日だけの音楽...Music for Just Today). This was another recommendation from that commenter who had also recommended fellow voice actor Saori Hayami's(早見沙織)"Yuuei"(遊泳)the other day with the reason being that both songs were created by former Kirinji member Yasuyuki Horigome(堀込泰行).

Like Hayami and "Yuuei", Sakamoto's "Kayoubi" has nothing to do with an anime as far as I know, but sometimes I think it would have been placed as an ideal ending tune for one. It's as calming as chamomile tea as the singer reminisces about a past romance that was abruptly ended on a Tuesday, and judging from the music, it looks like it was a fairly bittersweet breakup with the emphasis on the sweet part. The arrangement reminds me a bit of a Tomita Lab concoction. As for "Kyou dake no Ongaku", the album managed to reach No. 11 on Oricon.

1 comment:

  1. Glad you enjoyed it. You're right in that it does sound like it would make a fitting end theme for an anime (or maybe even a TV drama of some sort). The gorgeous string arrangement, coupled with the classical guitar, perfectly evoke a bittersweet atmosphere.

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