Kohei Matsushita -- Taion（体温）

 

Last year, I wrote about actor/singer Kohei Matsushita's（松下洸平）"Tsuyogari"（つよがり）after his appearance on an episode of "Uta Con"（うたコン）. The feeling was that he was going for the more soulful line of singing.

And such is the case here, too. "Taion" is a track from his November 2022 debut album "POINT TO POINT". "Taion" literally means "Body Temperature" but that sounds a little too clinical for this very heartfelt romantic ballad, so maybe "Your Warmth" sounds a little more wholesome. 

With Matsushita handling the lyrics along with the melody, the composition was also worked on by Shinsuke "Synthke" Hirano（平野晋介）. I gather from the comments for "Taion" under the YouTube video, it is indeed those lyrics that have been getting their own warmth as a man has a brief but pleasant chance encounter with a woman perhaps on a beach near the end of summer. He ends up keeping things polite and not making any overt moves but he realizes a little too late that the encounter was potentially a life-changing one as he notices that up until then, his life had been a lonely one. The couple parts company but now he might have to try and track her down.

There were three singles released from "POINT TO POINT" with one being the aforementioned "Tsuyogari" but not "Taion". Perhaps "Taion" should have been released as such.