Yes, I was having too good a time in Roppongi at the time since obviously I really couldn't focus my late Casio camera too well in its sparkly mode. But at the same time, I can pretend that I had wanted to get that rainy feeling in the shot.
It's been six years since I last had singer-songwriter Etsuko Sai（彩恵津子）up on "Kayo Kyoku Plus", so let's welcome her back with open arms. "Yawarakai Ame" (A Soft Rain) hails from her October 1986 album "Passio" and it was written and composed by Sai under Yuji Toriyama's（鳥山雄司）arrangement. When it first starts off, I thought that it was going to be a pretty hardcore soulful R&B City Pop number with that popular rhythm, but it ends up becoming more of a light and mid-tempo AOR tune. So perhaps less Shinjuku and Roppongi, more suburban bedroom town around Tokyo.
"Passio" also includes the track "Pygmalion"（ピグマリオン）which is one of the last songs that I wrote of her at the time. Glad to have her back.
I think Passio is the latin for suffering the title of this album has a macron over the final o so it is Passiō rather than Passio I am not sure if that means that it is a different word that what I am thinking?
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