In all likelihood, this track from Kingo Hamada's（濱田金吾）6th album "Heart Cocktail" from March 1985, "Tokyo Come & Gone" reflects the sad and concise four frames of a manga that makes up the cover of the album. My condolences to the former Itos.
"Tokyo Come & Gone" was written by Keisuke Yamakawa（山川啓介）and composed by Hamada as a wistful and reflective ballad of what used to be a happy relationship and is now a very former one. Not sure what happened but hey, that's life and romance in the big city, I guess. It's a beautiful and melancholy City Pop melody by Hamada with the Fender Rhodes and one other keyboard gently making contact. There's very much of a "there are other fish in the sea" feeling in this one as it accompanies Mr. Ito heading sadly into the horizon.
By the way, have a look at two other tracks from "Heart Cocktail": "Yokaze no Information"（夜風のインフォメーション）and "Hirusagari No Selection"（昼下がりのセレクション）.
Kingo Hamada seems to be the lionel richie ofJapan!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that can be an apt comparison. I do like a number of Richie's songs as well.
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