Rajie -- Goodbye Transfer（グッド・バイ・トランスファー）

 

Welcome to the penultimate Friday for 2020 and as would usually be the case for a Friday here at "Kayo Kyoku Plus", I'm providing some City Pop/J-AOR for your listening pleasure.

A few days ago, citypoper 234 was kind enough to inform me about the joys of one of Rajie's（ラジー）songs "Goodbye Transfer", and I do agree that it's a smooth City Pop ballad about love lost. Kazuko Kobayashi（小林和子）wrote the lyrics of the realization of an end of a romantic relationship while at the airport, a setting that has popped up in many a kayo over the various genres. It's often been the case that travel to places domestic and international has attempted to be a salve for broken hearts.

But for me, the interesting thing is the arrangement of the melody by singer-songwriter Kingo Hamada（濱田金吾）which has these tenderhearted keyboard passages laid over a galloping percussive beat. It's a tasty lasagna of City Pop music, folks. In a way, it sounds rather EPO-esque and happily mellow about a bittersweet topic. 

"Goodbye Transfer" is available on that 2nd CD of Rajie's "All-Time Selection" BEST compilation but was originally recorded on the singer's October 1984 album "Gogo no Relief"（午後のレリーフ...Afternoon Relief）.