Yasuhiro Abe -- Sequence

 

Welcome to another Urban Contemporary Friday on Kayo Kyoku Plus. When I think of the crooning singer-songwriter Yasuhiro Abe（安部恭弘）, I will always think of him as one of the princes of 1980s City Pop in Japan. 

So, when I saw one of his more recent songs I couldn't help but be a little surprised and delighted. "Sequence" is a track from his 2015 album "Time is", his first album release in a dozen years and though he obviously moved on from City Pop, the song is still in that comfortable area of café/bar-friendly jazzy AOR and pop. His vocals hadn't changed one whit either. While Abe took care of the melody, Goro Matsui（松井五郎）was the lyricist.