Last Summer Whisper
Kadomatsu's song, the second track of Heaven Beach.
Anri, from Heaven Beach (1982)
Toshiki Kadomatsu wrote words and music, and Ichizo Seo arranged it; it runs 5:00 and is the second track of Heaven Beach. Kadomatsu, born on August 12, 1960 in Tokyo and a debut artist of 1981 with Sea Breeze, went on to produce Timely!!. RAG Music calls the album the product of the first pairing of Anri and Kadomatsu, remembered among fans, and describes the song as evoking end-of-summer sentimentality and the lingering memory of a past romance; that is the editor's reading and not Anri's words, and we found no artist statement. Yokogao called it and "Fly By Day" the quintessential sound of city pop.
It was not a single in the sources we found, and we have no chart history or video. Setlist.fm records it 53 times among her 111 setlists from 1984 to 2026. It is said to be on ANRI the BEST blue (2025), which we could not verify, and we found nothing on covers or samples. Our upload is an audio upload and we cannot tell whether it is the original or a reissue master.
Sources
- Anri: the voice of city pop's eternal summer, Yokogao
- 80s summer songs, RAG Music
- Toshiki Kadomatsu, Wikipedia