Song of the Week: Smokey & Miho - Summer Rain

So I've been neglecting my blog and I don't have a good reason for it.  I was just being lazy.  So to try and combat my laziness I came up with a weekly post called song of the week.  Hopefully this will force me to post more regularly.  Basically every week I will pick a song that I like and talk about it.  Seems simple enough right?  Let me say that this is not the best song release of the week.  These are songs that I like and for whatever reason are on my mind that week.  I may come up with some kind of official system to pick the song of the week in the future but for now I'm just picking the songs that have been on my mind for that week.  So without further ado, lets get to the business.

So this weeks pick is Summer Rain by Smokey and Miho.



Let me start by saying that I'm a huge Cibo Matto fan.  So I have been following both Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda since the group split up in 2001.  I'm also a huge fan of Brazilian music especially Bossa Nova, but I also listen to traditional samba and forró music too.  So any project that puts two awesome things, like Miho Hatori and bossa nova, together you get some of the smoothest most chill music ever made.  'Summer Rain' being my favorite Smokey and Miho song it was an easy pick for me to make.  This could just be me but it seems Miho has more confidence singing in her native Japanese than when she sings in English or Portuguese.  You can hear it in her delivery of the singing.  Tell me if you agree.