Sunday, September 18, 2022

I Re'in For Re'in -- Tooi Natsu(遠い夏)

 
Over a couple of years ago, I discovered this Kochi Prefecture band with one of the more imaginative names that I'd ever seen: I Re'in For Re'in(アイリーン・フォーリーン). Initially active in the 1980s, they started out with a rock sound but with a lineup shift, the band went more R&B and it was a song from that latter genre that I introduced onto the blog, "Private Girl" from 1988.

Well, here is another song from a year earlier that was not only the final track of their December 1987 3rd album "I Re'in For Re'in", but it was also the B-side for their single "Yume Tabibito"(夢旅人...Dream Traveler) although for whatever reason, it wasn't included in the Singles list on their J-Wiki profile. "Tooi Natsu" (Distant Summer) isn't what I would say is a rock song or rock ballad. It sounds solidly like a dreamily contemplative pop ballad written and composed by band member Takaaki Yasuoka(安岡孝章). Arrangements were handled by Takeshi Kobayashi(小林武史).

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