Nanako Sato -- Yoru no Isadora（夜のイサドラ）

 

Not sure how to describe the architecture for this part of Asakusa along Okuyama Omairi Machi. Is it reflective of Taisho Era or early Showa Era? Hard to say...but it looks quite classy at night.

I'm including another track from singer-songwriter Nanako Sato's（佐藤奈々子）1977 debut album "Funny Walkin'" that also has the breezy 70s City Pop of "Subterranean no Futari Botchi"（サブタレニアン二人ぼっち）. This time, though, "Yoru no Isadora" (Isadora of the Night), has much more of an overnight/early morning vibe and Sato's breathy and slightly woozy vocals work as the image of a young tipsy woman stumbling home after a long fun night coalesces in my head. 

Written and composed by Sato with Motoharu Sano（佐野元春）also helping out in composition duties, I do wonder if Sano hadn't dived into rock n' roll from the early 1980s whether he would have gone the jazz route. And "Yoru no Isadora" has that jazziness with the added inclusion of the muted trumpet near the end, but it also feels like a New Music tune of that era thanks to the contemporary arrangement. Not surprisingly, it is the final song on Side B of the original LP. It's time to wave nighty-night!