Not sure what the inspiration was behind the big eye art at Shinjuku Station. Was it "The Great Gatsby" or "1984"? Perhaps the message is that no matter how many people are amassing at one of the world's busiest transportation hubs, someone is looking out for you...or someone is simply watching you. 😨
Anyways, no segue from the first paragraph to the second. Just here to introduce Masatou Higashi's（東正任） second song on KKP, "Tokyo Shining Love". A track mate to that first song of his on the blog "Singapore no Yuki"（シンガポールの雪）from his lone 1987 album "E La Nave Va ~ Soshite Fune wa Iku"（そして船はいく...Then the Ship Departs）, I unfortunately couldn't definitively find out who was behind words and music, but because Higashi was also a songwriter, it could have been him.
Compared to the more haunting and crystalline "Singapore no Yuki", "Tokyo Shining Love" seems to be basking in the warmer glow of 1980s Tokyo. There's even a hint of kayo kyoku in the arrangement...that down-home City Pop that I first noticed in Akira Terao's（寺尾聡）"Ruby no Yubiwa"（ルビーの指輪）so many years ago. The saxophone certainly helps out.
This song has a touch of jazz in it somehow, and overall it is cool and relaxing, but yet it is not so relaxing that it might put you to sleep; rather, it has enough rhythm to keep you in anticipation for the chorus(which by the way seems to be acting as the refrain as well).
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