Just a little over a year ago, I introduced singer and host Marie Igarashi（五十嵐麻利江）who I encountered through a snazzy City Pop number titled "Juu-roku-sai no Aki"（16才の秋）from her 1979 album "Umi wo Kanjiru Toki"（海を感じる時...When I Feel the Sea）. Eventually, Igarashi would direct her musical talents toward opera in the middle of the 1980s.
But before her training in Italy, she had a couple of pop albums to get through. One song from her 1981 album "Daydream" was "Kibouhou made" (Up to the Cape of Good Hope) which comes across as a breezy and optimistic pop number providing a romantic travelogue through South Africa. The tour is definitely at a brisk pace. Igarashi, Masato Kai（甲斐正人）and Takayuki Inoue（井上尭之）were behind the melody while Takashi Nakahata（仲畑貴志）and Kazuko Katagiri（片桐和子）took care of the lyrics.
Speaking of "Umi wo Kanjiru Toki", I also found this basically short instrumental "Mujin Ressha" (Empty Train) which has some chorus-like vocals. Written and composed by Kei Ogura（小椋佳）, it's dominated by electric guitar and hard-hitting piano as I get some Linda Ronstadt rock vibes in the arrangement.
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