Man, that sax. Gellers have long been a band pretty easily summed up lazily if you wanted to – they are a rock band, they are the rock band Shugo Tokumaru was in before stepping out on his own, they are Shugo Tokumaru’s other thing. Welp, new single “Cumparsita” aims to shake up those preconceptions…
Another year draws to a close, but 2011 wasn’t just another run-of-the-mill desk calendar for Japanese songs. The past 365 days saw an abundance of great tunes from Japan-based artists, ranging from shadowy electronic movers from Tokyo to dreamy pop numbers born in Osaka to space-tripped clackers via Kyoto. Just as exciting, though, were how…
[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)….
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsKb38VDtV0″] Remember the critical meme that popped up last year after the release of Port Entropy, the one where folks became skeptical of pop whiz Shugo Tokumaru because he seemed “creepy” sticking to sounds of kid-whimsy? Still a pretty dumb opinion (in my opinion) but the blog-owning chorus gets a little more evidence with the…