Mariko Tone -- Koi no Bigaku ni wa Sakararenai（恋の美学にはさからえない）

 

I kinda felt that I didn't have quite enough City Pop songs up last night considering Fridays are usually KKP's night for that, so allow me to compensate.

This is a pretty smooth City Pop number accompanying some bitter and harsh lyrics. "Koi no Bigaku ni wa Sakararenai" (Can't Stand the Aesthetics of Love) is a track from Mariko Tone's（刀根麻理子）June 1988 6th album "Purely". TOM TOM 99 was responsible for the arrangement reminiscent of some early David Foster (love the horns, by the way) while Masako Arikawa（有川正沙子）took care of the lyrics where Tone sings about how she's washing her hands of the pain of love and her soon-to-be ex-paramour.

Kazu Matsui（松居和）was the producer for "Purely" and his wife, jazz pianist Keiko Matsui（松居慶子）, contributed the melodies to two of the tracks, including "Koi no Bigaku ni wa Sakararenai". Not only am I hearing some of that David Foster in the song, but the coda reminds me of the ending of Bobby Caldwell's famous "What You Won't Do for Love".