Yutaka Kimura Speaks ~ Japanese City Pop Masterpieces 100: Kazuhiro Nishimatsu -- A Night of Blue Roses

 

Number: 058

Lyricists: Tokiko Iwatani and Hiromi Ishikawa

Composer: Kazuhiro Nishimatsu

Arrangers: Shoji Nanba and Kazuhiro Nishimatsu

From Nishimatsu's 1985 album: "Bouekifu Monogatari"

"A Night of Blue Roses", a hidden masterpiece overflowing with an international mood that intriguingly takes advantage of the robotic sounds created from its programming, is a tropical medium-tempo song with an attractively unique sense of weightlessness. With that interesting point of taking the Japanese lyrics by the one-and-only Tokiko Iwatani（岩谷時子）and changing them into English by Hiromi Ishikawa（石川ひろみ）. it feels like 1960s Elvis Presley singing a love song, and yet it also succeeds with its additional feeling of urbaneness.

The above comes from "Disc Collection Japanese City Pop Revised" (2020).