D.O.M.E. -- Megami-tachi ni Aeru Hi（女神たちに逢える日）

 

Almost a year ago, HRLE92 put up an article detailing some of the side projects that sprouted from that quintessential City Pop/J-AOR band of the 1980s, Omega Tribe（オメガトライブ）. It was quite fascinating to find out about how individual members and small groupings fared on their own as the times went into the 1990s.

One of the new groups that HRLE92 described was D.O.M.E., otherwise known as Deconstructed OMEGA by Mints Entertainment, which had a couple of members of the original group, guitarist Shinji Takashima（髙島信二）and keyboardist Toshitsugu Nishihara（西原俊次）, join up with bassist Seiichi Bannai（坂内聖一）, drummer Michihisa Ikeda（池田通久）and vocalist Satoshi Mikami（三上哲）. Getting together in 1992, D.O.M.E. released a single in May titled "Megami-tachi ni Aeru Hi" (The Day That I Can Meet The Goddesses) which also was the first track on "DOME", their one and only album that came out a few weeks later.

"Megami-tachi ni Aeru Hi" starts off quietly almost as if representing a sunrise before the main melody by guitarist Takashima comes into play, something that has a faint echo of the mother group but also has some of that rollicking fervor that Omega Tribe's fellow summery band, TUBE, had in spades. Considering the times, Takashima's music was also reminiscent of the sound from another guitar band, DEEN, and interestingly enough, according to that part of the J-Wiki article for D.O.M.E., the composer would begin directing and producing at Being Inc. which represented bands such as the aforementioned DEEN, B'z and ZYYG. So I guess that this spinoff group was something like Omega Tribe with the Being sound.

Minako Ishikawa（石川美奈子）provided the lyrics for the song. As for vocalist Mikami, he has since become an actor and a seiyuu.