The last time I wrote on actress-singer Mayumi Asaka（朝加真由美）was back last December when I posted the article for her "Hold On Me", a track from her lone album, the October 1981 "Yasashii Kankei ~ Mayumi I"（優しい関係...A Gentle Relationship）. Well, I've got another track here titled "Toki yo Hohoende" (It's Time to Smile).
Written by Tomoko Aran（亜蘭知子）and composed by Daiko Nagato（長門大幸）, it's another City Pop treat with the wailing electric guitar and the boppy bass, but there are also some interesting classical piano riffs ripping through the instrumental bridge. And Asaka's slightly husky voice keeps things within the urban contemporary.
Mayumi Asaka has a warm, slightly husky mezzo-to-low female voice with a calm, natural delivery, strong emotional restraint, and an elegant, maternal quality. Her voice seem to me to be expressive but yet without exaggeration somehow. At least this what I feel after listen to both "Hold On Me" and "Toki yo Hohoende".
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