New Kindan No Tasuketsu: “Crazy”
Here’s a slow burner from Kindan No Tasuketsu, “Crazy.” It unfolds like a nursery rhyme (that chorus), and features a wild keyboard solo amidst all the longing.
Here’s a slow burner from Kindan No Tasuketsu, “Crazy.” It unfolds like a nursery rhyme (that chorus), and features a wild keyboard solo amidst all the longing.
Programming Note – This week has been busy with writing…on deadline, right now!…so these parts have been a bit quite. Hopefully next week will be a bit more free…but we end the week with a big one. For most of his career, Tokyo producer mus.hiba has been working with a single vocalist – Sekka Yufu,…
Few artists can point to a co-sign from Hikaru Utada ahead of their major-label solo debut, but Nariaki Obukuro has got it. And if more artists like this are going to creep closer to the spotlight, the widening of the J-pop industry is only proving fruitful. Obukuro co-founded Tokyo Recordings and has worked under the…
A few new songs appeared online over the weekend, from a pair of rising producers in Japan, so let’s make a little space for them, shall we? – As mentioned before, Madegg is set to drop an album, New, in early November. He’s shared a song from that collection recently called “Dragon,” which you can…
Nostalgia is a tricky thing. Everyone wants to dismiss it (or the idea of it), at least when it fits their feelings, but the moment something emerges that touches on some fantasized past, the same people are drooling over themselves. But a little bit of reflection — of thinking back on simpler times (maybe with…
Shoegaze-leaning outfit Universe Nekoko (formerly written as Uchu Nekoko because we love our Japanese words at Make Believe Melodies) recently teamed up with singer-songwriter Tsvaci for an achingly sweet song called “Online Love.” “Down In The DM” this isn’t — whatever musings about tech-guided romance this song ponders on aren’t really clear, as it is…
Buffalo Daughter member Ohno Yumiko wrote the soundtrack to a dance performance put on back in 2009 called “The Rainy Table.” I have no idea what this art piece was actually about, a preview video for it only showing a dancer in front of a screen hiding the shadow of a horse. Regardless, it must…