Earlier in the summer, I discovered this band called Ossan（乙三．）with their mix of jazz and good ol' rock and roll, and so I wrote about their 2006 tune "Kayoubi"（火曜日...Tuesday）.
Ironically, it's Tuesday today and with 5 days to go before the 25th arrives, I'd like to go over their sparkling "Douka Christmas" (Please, Christmas) which was the lead track on their December 2014 album "Onsen e Ikou ka"（温泉へ行こうか...Shall We Go to a Hot Spring?）. I got that information directly from below the above video since apparently no one has been updating Ossan's J-Wiki page.
Whereas "Kayoubi" was accompanied by a depressing music video, "Douka Christmas" has got the band happily jamming away to cheerful nighttime scenes of Xmas. Vocalist Sohsaku Ohtake（大竹創作）has concocted a song of anticipation for one guy looking forward and praying for the greatest Holiday season with the love of his life as he notices the other romantic couples walking together. The arrangement includes some of that boss Spector sound from the 1960s, and hearing Ossan here, it comes across as a tune that I could imagine the house band on "Saturday Night Live" performing between skits.
I can certainly hope that Christmas in Japan will be as wonderful as it sounds here.
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