Number: 029
Lyricist: Takashi Matsumoto
Composer/Arranger: Yasuhiro Abe
From Takeuchi's 1980 album: "Love Songs"
"Gosenshi"(Music Paper) is a song that came out exactly 10 years after Takashi Matsumoto(松本隆)had expressed the world of the "windy city" through Happy End(はっぴいえんど). I feel that he brought together the complete transformation of the cityscape through his lyrics of "The ten years have been the same/Even the shadows of the city are coloured in dreams", and at the same time, that boy from his novel "Binetsu Shonen"(微熱少年...The Slightly Feverish Boy)* has all grown up. The sumptuous melody by Yasuhiro Abe(安部恭弘)as well as the light swing arrangement has led to a marvelous work befitting the 10th anniversary of City Pop.
*Matsumoto's novel is a coming-of-age story that was first published in the mid-1970s and then made into a film in 1987.
Hi, J-Canuck here! Try out the scintillating cover by Abe himself.
The above comes from "Disc Collection Japanese City Pop Revised" (2020).
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