Mitsuko Komuro -- Taba no Aida no Manatsu wa Iranai（束の間の真夏はいらない）

 

Had the annual Xmas dinner with my immediate household. As has been the case over the past several years, it was the usual no-muss-no-fuss frozen stuffed turkey breast with mashed potatoes with fruitcake for dessert. Things are digesting smoothly.

Maybe the same is going with you...just relaxing in the chair while all your energies are devoted in breaking down your Christmas feast. Well, then...how about the more relaxing side of City Pop since this is a Friday, and Fridays often mean City Pop and J-AOR on KKP? What I've got here is singer-songwriter Mitsuko Komuro's（小室みつこ）"Taba no Aida no Manatsu wa Iranai" (Don't Need the Midsummer Between the Bunches). Rather odd title but I think the bunch is perhaps referring to the flowers?

However, what is not odd is the melody for the song which is provided by Komuro (along with the lyrics). It's smooth-sailing bossa nova and hopefully that will make for a very pleasant aural form of a digestif. As the second track in the singer's 1983 album "Mishiranu Koibito"（見知らぬ恋人...Unknown Lovers）, "Taba no Aida no Manatsu wa Iranai" also makes for a nice contrast with the opening track of the splendid "Highway Rendezvous"（ハイウェー ランデブー）which is more of the active bombing-down-a-Tokyo-highway type of City Pop.