Nothing like another H2O song to bring people at ease.
Whenever I see hints of an H2O song coming over the horizon, I always imagine blue sky, soft breezes and a couple of fellows strumming guitars in a very relaxed manner. Given that Kenji Nakazawa and Masaki Akashio（中沢堅司・赤塩正樹）named their duo after a basic liquid, it is all so apropos that they were able to concoct all sorts of calming melodies.
"Blueberry no Koro" (The Time of the Blueberries) is no exception. A track from their May 1981 debut album, "Water Land", that hadn't been released until more than halfway through their initial time together, the ballad was composed by Nakazawa and Akashio as this truly laidback and hammock-friendly song. Keisuke Yamakawa（山川啓介）provided some melancholy words of redemption attempts and regret as they describe the story of a man coming back to his hometown after being lured away to the big city some years in the past while leaving the love of his life behind, probably knowing that she herself has long gone. It's all very contemplative although the coda with that ELO-sounding synth is a bit jarring.
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