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Controlled Karaoke: Jim O’Rourke Sings Enka

ByPatrick St. Michel January 18, 2011

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The audio seems kinda weird and doesn’t always match up with the video…but whatever, here’s Jim O’Rourke singing an Enka song.

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Self-Promotion Plus: Gellers

ByPatrick St. Michel May 26, 2011

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsKb38VDtV0″] I had grand visions for this feature, but now I sleep so little that any chance to get some rest trumps writing too many words about a band I’ve already covered before. So yeah…here is an article about Gellers for The Japan Times. Read it, and enjoy the above song (a grower, for sure)….

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New Boys Age: “Forlorn Beach”

ByPatrick St. Michel May 9, 2018May 9, 2018

This is both the liveliest sounding Boys Age song and the most downtrodden. The bedroom rock project has gotten jangly at times in the past, but “Forlorn Beach” deploys a jaunty drum beat that practically skips ahead, adding an energy rarely found in the group’s music. And it works well in conjunction with the guitar…

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Newton Faulkner X Cornelius – “Won’t Let Go”

ByPatrick St. Michel October 14, 2009

Folkie Newton Faulkner‘s new album Rebuilt By Humans comes out in Japan this week and features a very interesting collaboration – he got Cornelius to produce two tracks for this new album. One of those tracks, “Won’t Let Go,” definitely features Cornelius’ marks via propulsive drumming and other flourishes. An enjoyable little track, check it…

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New Seiho: “Triangle”

ByPatrick St. Michel October 24, 2019

During this blog’s slight vacation from…existence…Seiho shared a new song that found him working with rapper 5lack. It’s solid, and a nice reminder that Seiho really does play well with others, but it also felt a bit more straightforward, especially in the wake of his “Star Guitar” but for Millenial Burnout masterstroke from earlier this…

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New Fuji Chao: “Bedtown No Uta”

ByPatrick St. Michel January 3, 2019

Bedtowns — the places existing just outside of major cities, places that exist for workers to return to after a long day at the office, what you might call the suburbs — have been a point of fascination for musicians in Japan. Probably because so many of them grew up in said places, and they…

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Taquwami Preps Blurrywonder EP, Listen To A Preview Now

ByPatrick St. Michel June 18, 2012

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt7U9Ap7sUI&w=420&h=315] Tokyo’s Taquwami, who has been releasing a steady stream of great music over the past few months, has a new EP out in either July or August (as the YouTube description says, “it’s still up in the air”). He’s put together a preview of the album – called Blurrywonder, which manages to describe…

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