After a whirlwind trip to Bangkok (the fruit of which can be seen here), I’m finally back and sorta rested in Tokyo. As usual, lots of great songs appeared online while I was busy wandering the streets of Thailand’s capital, and here are a handful of them. – Yesterday Once More continues to shine, with…
Food has played a central role in the music of many Japanese artists, from Cibo Matto to Shonen Knife to…well, many more (one more!). Tokyo rapper Itadaqi (formerly Canopies And Drapes) teams up with Tomobitch for their own entry into the culinary playlist with “Caramel Banana Combination,” a squiggly electronic bouncer devoted to the pair…
The trick is, Itadaqi isn’t that different than Canopies And Drapes, the project singer Chick headed up before starting the prior last year. Itadqi leans more towards rap…Chick’s voice flows…and she collaborates with rappers. Yet Canopies And Drapes featured what amounted to a talk-sing delivery that was just slightly flatter than what she does here,…
Time for a catch-up post to kick off the week, here are some good songs from the last few days worth your time! – Itadaqi is a new electro-pop project in Tokyo, and I am pretty sure that Chick of Canopies And Drapes handles the lead vocals on their first song “Taikutsu No Heya.” Well,…