Akira Terao -- Natsu Arashi（夏嵐）

 

Through this video, I've read that Akira Terao's（寺尾聰）"Natsu Arashi" (Summer Storm) is available on his compilation "Twin Best". But that was from 1998 and this song sounds like one of his bouncy tracks from his 1981 mega-hit album "Reflections".

As it turns out, "Natsu Arashi" is indeed a much earlier creation. In fact, it hails from his December 1983 album "Atmosphere", which has also been dubbed "Reflections 2". Sounding like it could have easily been included in "Reflections", "Natsu Arashi" also has the same folks from that album: Terao himself composing it, Masako Arikawa（有川正沙子）behind the lyrics and Akira Inoue（井上鑑）taking care of the arrangement. Accordingly with that bouncy homegrown City Pop beat, the lyrics also take on a similar form as to those from the singer's classic "Ruby no Yubiwa"（ルビーの指輪）in that they don't describe a happy situation as a couple's relationship seems to be coming apart at the seams, so that storm isn't really a meteorological one. Too bad about the kids but dang, is it fun to listen to!