Kyoto folk-tinged rockers Turntable Films already dropped one excellent mini album onto the world in 2010, but that hasn’t stopped them from going and recording a potentially stellar follow-up. 10 Days Plus One, a ten-track album featuring the colorful artwork above, comes out sometime in November. Vague, but all good. Check the song list below….
Parables Of Fe-Fum saw release back in February, but I didn’t get my hands on a physical copy of the mini-album until after Turntable Films performance at the Nara Street Style Festival. Well worth the wait – this album finds an extremely talented young band hitting their stride, and penning some excellent tracks more experienced…
The scene best summing up the 2010 Nara Street Style Music festival happened early in the afternoon, inside the event’s strangest venue, a hotel. In the hallway between a foyer, a banquet hall and what appeared to be a wedding area (all three serving as stages), the nightmare-inducing Nara mascot Sentokun danced about and mugged…
People in or near the city of Osaka, attention! This upcoming weekend has so many good concerts going broke for them seems totally reasonable. At the top of the heap: Saturday’s Joanna Newsom show featuring impressive Japanese opener Dry River String, and Sunday’s knock out of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. That Sunday…
Stumbled across Kyoto folk-rock four piece Turntable Films and have been charmed by the poppy songs available on their MySpace. In particular take a listen to “Hot Tea After The Lunch” (sounds like it was recorded in someone’s basement, and that’s a good thing) and the sunny bounce of “Won’t Let You Down.”