Singer-songwriter Iruka（イルカ）has had a place in my musical heart since I first heard her classic "Ame no Monogatari"（雨の物語）from 1977. Evidently, she's had a certain amity for that Japanese word for rain, "ame", since I've also written about another song of hers, "Itsuka Tsumetai Ame ga"（いつか冷たい雨が）, and I've noticed from her J-Wiki discography a few more rain-titled tunes.
Unlike the above two songs, though, "Ame no Distance" (Distance of the Rain) isn't a particularly folksy tune. Instead, it's quite the bouncy 1980s metropolitan song from her April 1985 album "Heart Land". Listening to it, folks might imagine more a walk among the skyscrapers and on the concrete under an umbrella more than a traipse through some sylvan glade. Iruka didn't have anything to do with the songwriting here either. Instead, it was City Pop guru Tetsuji Hayashi（林哲司）behind the melody and arrangement while Etsuko Kisugi（来生えつこ）took care of the lyrics of pairing the precipitation with the ups-and-downs of love.
"Heart Land" has been mentioned in the blog before for one other song, so I'm wondering if I might strike luck again and be able to grab a copy of it somewhere sometime.
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