Well, this upcoming week will be a busy one as I get started on the Xmas shopping. As for the cards, since there is no sign that Canada Post will be ending its workers' strike anytime soon, my friends and family will probably have to settle for the digital Christmas cards this year.
Anyways, I'm keeping the "Winter Gift Pops" album series going that was continuing this time last month with Caoli Cano（かの香織）& Hiroshi Takano's（高野寛）"First Flight" and bringing another song from that album. Again, my thanks go to Scott from the podcast "Holly Jolly X'masu" since he first brought Masamichi Sugi's（杉真理）1997 compilation to our attention.
This time, the track of note is actually a cover of EPO's 1985 melancholy "Juu-ni Gatsu no April Fool" (December April Fool) by singer-songwriter Hiroyuki Izuta（伊豆田洋之）. Izuta is someone I mentioned earlier this year in June for his 1987 "Kodo no Distance"（鼓動のディスタンス）, a blend of City Pop and 80s pop/rock. Well, his cover of "Juu-ni Gatsu no April Fool" is a fine one as his version is a slightly R&B-inflected pop version which heads close to something unplugged although the technology is still there; this is in comparison with EPO's original Minnie Ripperton-soulful rendition. EPO even helps out in this new take as backup chorus.
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