Monday, August 7, 2023

Seri Ishikawa -- Niji no Hitoheya(虹のひと部屋)

 

Having only experienced it a few times, it's energy-sapping and very stressful when I've had a fight with a significant other. And once the water finally does go under the bridge, I'm still left a bit frustrated about why the fight ever occurred. But that's a part of life in a relationship.

Seri Ishikawa's(石川セリ)"Niji no Hitoheya" (One Room with a Rainbow) hails from her January 1976 album "Tokidoki Watashi wa..."(ときどき私は…Sometimes I...), and it's basically a vignette of a spat between two people and the aftermath. It's a quiet and relaxing New Music tune with a bit of blues guitar in there as Ishikawa sings the still-hot accusations and resentments between the lovers in the first verse before the second verse has time passing and heads cooling when one of them notices the beautiful rainbow filtering into their home through the window, and all is right with the world once more. 

Masahiro Takeda(武田全弘)provided the lyrics for "Niji no Hitoheya" while Ichizo Seo( 瀬尾一三) composed and arranged the song. I think it makes for the ideal sunset song on a Monday.

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