Kazue Ito -- Tasogare wa Ano Hi no You ni（黄昏はあの日のように）

 

Yes, that is indeed Kazue Ito（伊藤かずえ）as a fresh-faced teenager in the early 1980s but we will not be doing "Kaze to Hikari no Sneaker"（風と光のスニーカー...Sneakers of Wind and Light） today as shown on that page from an aidoru book. That cover looks like an advertisement for some very effective detergent, by the way.

Actually, the first Kazue Ito article that I did was almost a year ago, but that song, "Fallin'", was for an image album in 1985. This time, though, we are in her main discography with "Tasogare wa Ano Hi no You ni" (The Sunset is Just Like That Day) which was a track from her debut album "Heartstring"（ハートストリング）which came out in January 1983.

Written by Toyohisa Araki（荒木とよひさ）and composed by someone whose name could be pronounced Yasuhiro Kumagaya（熊谷安廣）, "Tasogare wa Ano Hi no You ni" starts off briefly sounding like an AOR tune but it quickly settles into an introspective but fairly bouncy aidoru tune. Those front-and-centre strings lend quite a bit of sophistication to the arrangement, though. The overall feel of the song strikes me as being a premonition of sorts of at least some of the aidoru numbers that would come out in the latter half of the decade when the arrangements for those became a little lusher.