Lamp -- Komorebi no Kisetsu（木洩陽の季節）

 

April 2019 was the last time that I put up an article regarding the 21st-century band Lamp featuring Taiyo Someya（染谷大陽）, Yusuke Nagai（永井祐介）and Kaori Sakakibara（榊原香保里）, and that was for their album "Yume"（ゆめ）from 2014. I would say that all of the KKP entries regarding this group that got their start in the year 2000 concern their material in the 2010s.

Therefore, it's nice to encounter one of their earlier examples in their discography. "Komorebi no Kisetsu" (The Season of Sunlight Filtering Through the Trees) is the second track from their May 2005 3rd album "Komorebi Douri ni te"（木洩陽通りにて...On Komorebi Avenue）. I was certainly fortunate that I had gotten a good clear definition of what komorebi was through Masa's "Komorebi"（木洩れ日）. 

I noted in "Yume" that there were a number of genres in play with Lamp songs: AOR, pop, Shibuya-kei, groove and jazz...perhaps even some alternative pop or British sophisti-pop. And maybe all of them are mingling in varying quantities within "Komorebi no Kisetsu". It is a very pleasant and sunnyside tune with the season in question being summer or fall. Hard to tell, but in any event, there is that feeling of traipsing through a sylvan area such as Ueno Park in Tokyo on a bright day while listening to this one.