Zoom Lens recently released Metempsychosis, a special collaboration with Fakku, which is part compilation and part art book. Would highly recommend getting it, as it includes a lot of great tracks from familiar names (Meishi Smile’s “Angel’s Egg,” The Blinda Butcher’s “Lotus Eaters” and more), plus LLLL’s “If You Say You Love Me Then Die…
A friend and I had a long talk today about what’s going on in indie Japanese music…well, and J-pop…and came to the conclusion things are pretty strange. Mainstream artists are letting all sorts of ideas into their songs, and the underground seems just as much all over the place. Yet one place we agreed was…
1. Overall, I love what Maltine Records has been doing/continues to does, but the only thing that makes me bite my lip is these special sites they make for big releases, such as this collaboration with Amagawa Uchu. Mainly because it destroys my computer every time…a large part of that is, despite being a (*air…
California’s Meishi Smile – Maltine artist and one of the co-founders of Zoom Lens, which has released music from the likes of i-fls, Yoshino Yoshikawa and other Japanese artists – recently released a new single called “Star,” the original version of which you can hear here and which can be downloaded here. It’s great, but…
Los Angeles’ Meishi Smile is one of Make Believe Melodies’ favorite artists who technically falls outside our area of coverage (though when Maltine Records released a collection from him, we broke the rules because…why not?), and you should definitely get a copy of his album Lust, out this week via Attack The Music (it’s a…