This time around, WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA sings Ikkyu-san, and then a track recorded Live at Oginohama, Ishinomaki. The concert footage includes the Gogh Remix, the Momotaro Remix, and the ever popular Marco Polo Remix! Enjoy!
There is a new track this week from the band SecondWall called Word, and it is every bit as good as you would expect. It looked lonely on the page by itself, so I am also reposting one of theit older songs, At the end of love, the cherry blossom dances. The band has been together since 2009 and got their major record deal in 2013, and seems to get better every year. Enjoy!
The Kobe band Fredrick has another opening to a popular Anime, Koi to Uso, in English: Love And Lies, a story of future Japan where the government selects your life partner with an eye to increasing the dwindling population. I haven’t seen the show yet, because I don’t have a subscription to the only streaming service I have found it on. But I do enjoy what they have done for the opening theme, Sad and Happy, the first track presented here. It was posted July 31st, and has well over 2 million views so far, and was released on their August 16th single. The other track is a live version of their song Only Wonder, recorded at Studio Coast 2017, and also part of their 2nd single. Japanese singles are a bit different than the ones in North America; this one has a total of 5 live tracks and 3 studio recordings.
Shishido Kavka is the stage name of Shishido Yūna, a great singer who plays her own drums. She started off in the band The News, but broke out and released her first solo album in 2012, with her most recent offering being an EP released this past February. She was born in Mexico and was taught to play the drums by by Daniel “Pipi” Piazzoll (drummer, and grandson of Astor Piazzolla, a famous Tango musician some years back) in Argentina. The first track here is actually two songs, Miss Me and My, while the second is the short (only about half the song) version of Rock And Roll Widow.
The latest track from The Oral Cigarettes is Black Memory, which was posted on line yesterday and already has 185,000 views. If they sound familiar perhaps you know their song Kyouran Hey Kids!!, which is the opening theme to the first season of the series Noragami Aragoto. Its a story abut a minor god determined to make it big who isn’t having a lot of luck getting a shrine started or finding followers. Or perhaps you are currently watching Sagrada Reset, where they do one of the closing themes. They will also be doing the theme for the upcoming live action version of Ajin – Demi-Human, hitting theaters on the final weekend of September, and that is what Black Memory is.
Maison Book Girl is an art rock band who released their second single on July 19th, but a Japanese single is like a US EP, having 3 to 5 tracks on it. The first song here is the first track on that new single, Rooms. The second song is the second track from their first single, Sin Morning, and that one has English subtitles for those wondering what they are singing about. Their first single actually has 11 tracks on it, so I am throwing in the 5th one as well, Faithlessness. Their live concerts are right up there with METAFIVE for being visually complex as well as musically so, but sadly their record companies attempts at live show production quality do not end up with a product you can actually enjoy watching.