Looks like we're continuing our mini Yokohama City Pop odyssey after my posting of Rie Ida's（井田リエ） "Blue Harbor Street"（ブルー・ハーバー・ストリート）a few minutes ago. This time, the target of this particular song is the Honmoku neighbourhood right by Yokohama Bay. Sadly I have to admit that I may have gone only as far as the northern edge of the area during my sojourns to the famous port metropolis. Yokohama's Chinatown is about as south as I have gotten there. However, you can take a look at an excerpt showing off Honmoku as pretty much a complete city on its own through one of my favourite Saturday night shows while living in Japan, "Admatic Tengoku"（アド街ック天国...Admatic Heaven）, on TV Tokyo.
As for the song portion of our article, I have singer-songwriter Hiroshi Kakizaki's（蛎崎弘）"Honmoku Bluesy Night". Honmoku seems really jaunty now but from the sound of this City Pop tune, things seemed to have been pretty happening there back in 1982 as well when this song was released as Kakizaki's debut single. Composed by the singer, written by Kaoru Asaki（麻木かおる）and arranged by Ichizo Seo（瀬尾一三）, this is quite the melodically rollicking ride down to Honmoku for a Friday night.
Kakizaki actually hails from Hokkaido and also in 1982, he released his first album, "Yumeji no Hate ni ~ Sentimental Syndrome"（夢路の果てに ～センチメンタル・シンドローム～...To the Ends of Dreamland） which also has "Honmoku Bluesy Night". Several years later in 1987, he joined up with Anzen Chitai（安全地帯）guitarist Yutaka Takezawa（武沢豊）to form the duo Kakizaki Hiroshi + "r" project（蛎崎弘+"r"project） through which two singles and a mini-album were released.
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