Pizzicato V -- Chotto Deyou yo（ちょっと出ようよ）

 

Man, it's been a scorcher on Day 4 of our Toronto heat wave as we've passed the terminator into official Summer 2024. After three days of managing to endure the heat in my room, I finally decided to turn on the fan which is giving some limited relief.

Perhaps it would be a good idea for friends and couples to head out from the steamy apartment or house for a little while, preferably some cool café in the neighbourhood for some frozen cappuccinos or the like. And that is the point of "Chotto Deyou yo" (Let's Go Away for A While), a song by the early incarnation of Pizzicato Five（ピチカート・ファイヴ）, when it was known as Pizzicato V.

Buoyed by the "Citypop Lullaby -- Keitarou Takanami mad FPU Lovers Rock Remix" article I did yesterday which features the former member of Pizzicato V and then the fact that I had made reference to the band's debut single "The Audrey Hepburn Complex" all the way back in 1985, I went into that original single EP to see what else I could find. Well, as it turns out, I was able to discover the track "Chotto Deyou yo" which was written and composed by Takanami（高浪慶太郎）. An instrumental that starts out with a happy-go-lucky ukulele, it sounds like a cosmic 22nd-century tribute to a hybridized French pop and City Pop number. This observation isn't intended as an insult but there is also something about the arrangement as if it had been meant to accompany couples while they were window shopping in a mall anywhere. 

There's an extended version of "Chotto Deyou yo" on P5's first BEST compilation, "Pizzicatomania!"（ピチカートマニア!）from July 1987 which finishes up with a weird music box ditty.