Visiting Dayone’s page reminiscing about MACROSS soundtrack songs made me think about a cassette a friend made for me many years ago that was just filled with various songs from selected anime shows.
Some great ones I recall were songs like Hare Nochi Parade by Tokyo Policewoman Duo (a song I'm STILL looking for in CD or MP3!), Mouichido Love You by Hiroko Kasahara and Itsumademo by Chisato Moritaka, but by FAR my favorite track on the cassette mix was a kicking song called “Tenamonda Jinsei”, a song that I didn’t know anything about except tht it was sung by an artist named Megumi Nozawa. Or at least, that was the name of the artist that my friend scribbled on the cassette case!
Years later, my friend got ahold of a anime compilation with Tenamonda Jinsei on it, and made a copy of the CD for me…and also pointed out that the artist was AYA Nozawa, NOT “Megumi”! Yep,even though the kanji in her name was “Megumi”, in furugana on the side, it said “Aya”…so there you go.
I still didn’t know too much about the song however, and It wasn’t until years later I came across the ANIMENEWSNETWORK pge that had some data about the song. I found that the collection my friend had originally taken the song from was a CD called “Anime Hot Wave-The Third Wave”, a 1992 release, and the Aya Nozawa song was the theme for anime show MUSASHI, THE SAMURAI LORD!
Okay, truth be told, that still leaves me pretty much in the dark about the origins of this song...what the heck is this "Musashi Lord"? And I can't seem to find any more information about Aya Nozawa, at least on english written pages , and hey, that's probably the PROBLEM, right? But even if I type her name in japanese in the search engine it doesn't bring up much. So it goes. Anyway....
Man, listening to this song right now, It really takes me back- this was such a rockin’ favorite of mine at the time, very much in the flavour of then-current rockin’ artists I loved like Nanase Aikawa, KIX-S and Be-B!
Enjoy Tenamonda Jinsei!
