Controlled Karaoke: Japanese Duo Do Best Simon & Garfunkel Impression
They also try out some tunes by The Stylistics and The Gypsy Kings. Dudes got the Garfunkel hair down, though.
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They also try out some tunes by The Stylistics and The Gypsy Kings. Dudes got the Garfunkel hair down, though.
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The ongoing “city pop” revival online tends to place an emphasis on the funk and disco-indebted tunes emerging out of Bubble era Japan. Yet every bit as central to it were genres seen as far less cool in 2019 — jazz, AOR, fusion, the stuff your dad might listen to (give that dad some credit,…
New-ish project Feather Shuttles Forever brings together Hikaru Yamada (of the group Hiakru Yamada and The Librarians) and Mukuchi, who has appeared on this blog a few times with a genre called “seagazer.” Together, they create a shifty electronic-pop number in “Zujou No Seaside Town,” which features smooth singing gliding over an ever-changing backdrop, one…
Sometime in the past month and a half, the CUZ ME PAIN label went from three established artists joining forces to also incorporating a slew of upstarts dabbling in the same sound. We already looked at THE BEAUTY the other day, so now we turn attention to Melancholic Masculinity. Splitting time between Tokyo and New…
Today was the first time in a long day where the temperature in Tokyo resembled Spring, and lord knows those same numbers next to the Celsius symbol won’t be back for a few more weeks. Maybe that’s why these two songs by Shoji Ishiguro, a bass player who records under the name Gropas, blindsided me…
名古屋のHouse Of Tapesのデビューアルバム”Trip Science”はとても奇妙で、初めて聴く時は少し戸惑うかもしれません。皮肉でも何でもないのですが、この激しく至って暗いサウンドは凄く独特なのです。House Of Tapesの音楽はいつでもまるで耐重力訓練のようで、Gasper Noeの映画を全て通して観ているようなダンス・ミュージック。単純に”House”とカタゴライズできる程シンプルでないのです。 でも”Trip Science”はアルバムとしての完成度が高い事は確かです。“Chaos Tape”に使われたチャイムの音が繰り出す美しくポップな不気味さはHouse Of Tapesらしいギミックですし、“Faint Light”での激しいビートや打ち込みはまるでブラック・ホールに吸い込まれて行くような感覚。去年リリースされた“Starting Point”や分かりやすいタイトルの”Noise Attack”は未だに新鮮さを失わず、アルバムにも違和感無く収録されています。凄く挑戦的な音楽ですが、聴くのは決して挑戦にはなりませんよ。ダウンロードはこちらから。
Been a bit since we checked in on Hiroki Yamamura and, happy to report, he’s still creating pulsing dance numbers moving at full speed. “Flying Disco Pusher” is a shifty one where a wordless voice stutters off in the back while the music — following juke principles — blasts forward while managing to skitter off…