A japanese TV drama series SPEC ~Keizoku 2~ is supposed to be cinematized, on screen today or last weekend? The theme tune called, "NAMInoYUKUSAKI" by a 4-guys Japanese rock band from Boston, Berklee College of Music currently NYC based. That's supposed to be in 2010. This song had been released in several versions, and even they have a Japanese lyric version at last but at the time they hadn't had, so that I've translated that English lyric in Japanese without any allowing. Somehow, this was my "make sense." Not an official one.
But generally song has to be understood by every single person's own understandings, in my opinion. Every single person's personal thought would be resonated onto the lyric and picked up sharing the sympathy for the song. Whatever, whatever you feel freely.
Nikki@mixi2010年11月01日07:12 全体公開「night after nite, trying to get by and let it and me down a little bit.」より。
*According to their "The Ricecookers" official band site,http://thericecookers.syncl.jp/?p=custom&id=10466650 *so I got just disregarded the copyright or something like that, and try to make my original words conversion in Japanese of a song of theirs which is gonna be just for trial and having fun to see.
Finally I successfully gotta be able to see the NJ's punk trio Screaming Females at Royale Boston opened for a DIY type hardcore Thursday's final tour. I didn't even realize this was Thursday's last tour for the intimated hiatus...
I think I can make a review to Thursday and Screaming Females out when SF comes to black out us at my friends local bookstore in Somerville area, Boston called "Lorem Ipsum Books." My music writter friend Liz Pelly has mentioned me before that she wanted to have SF in a small show such as basement show or house show. And then I met her just by chance at a SF show of Thursday's final tour in December 2011. That show was for me really "finally" to get Screaming. I could totally agree with Liz to have them in the good small show, because they have been toured with gre
*Click the titles to listen the songs on YouTube! ＊タイトルをクリックすると楽曲のYouTubeのリンクとなります！
Discog for the session:
2). "A New Kid" & 3). "I Don't Mind It" from the latest/4th album "Castle Talk" (2010) トラック２の前半「ア・ニューキッズ」と３「アイ・ドン・マインディ」は現在の最新作／４枚目の２０１０年アルバム「キャッスル・トーク」収録です。 Vinyl / ヴァイナル at Amazons
2). "Zoo of Death" from "Singles" EP (2010) (originally from their very first 7" single "Arm Over Arm / Zoo of Death"(2006) soldout.) トラック２後半「ズー・オブ・デス」は元々２００６年の自主盤1st 7" singleでのリリースから２０１０年のDon Giovanni LBLにて過去の四枚のソールドアウト7"をコンパイルした「シングルス」のEPとしてCDリリースされております。 cd at Amazons
*About the SF songs Sean mentioned specifically in his essay of SF's; "Boyfriend" and "Fun" are on Screaming Females originally self-released sophomore album "What if Someone Is Watching Their T.V.?" (2007)(It's highly recommended album!), and Niel Young's cover tune "Cortez the Killer" is on "Singles" EP now! ＊そして、デイトラッターのショーンの今回のエッセイ内で語られている楽曲、「ボーイフレンド」「Fun」は特にお勧めなアルバムである２００７年のセカンドの「ワット・イフ・サムワン・イズ・ウォッチング・ゼアT.V.?」("What if Someone is Watching Their T.V.?")、そして「コーテーヅ・ザ・キラー ("Cortez the Killer")」(二ール・ヤングのカバー)は現在入手可能な「シングルス」EPに収録されております。
ペーターノースターはもし彼女自身がブラックアウト(black out = 「周りが見えなくなって」「失神して」位の意?)したまま歌い続けると、その中に唯一悪魔の赤い形相だけを目の当たりにするような感覚があり、その悪魔は地獄で燃えたぎっていることを嘆かけてきたり、原始爆発へと送り込もうとむち打ちしてきたり、彼女の一本のマイクや一台のスピーカーから１０マイル範囲内の誰しもの腕や顔を焼き尽くしかねないほどである。今回のセッションは彼女達のパフォーマンスをある意味かいつまんだ形になっていつつも、彼女のこの上ない才能を目の当たりにしたり、バンドの他の楽曲へとプロバイド（導いて）くれる為には十分にエッセンシャルなセッションであり、聞く者の気持ちは彼女の美しくパチパチっと鳴り止まない能力につかみ取られてゆき、例えば「Fun」（＊Discog参照）や「コーテーヅ・ザ・キラー ("Cortez the Killer")」（＊ニールヤング(Neil Young)のカバー、Discog参照）や他の楽曲でその頂点に垣間みれる、
Marissa Paternoster, the lead singer and wailer for the New Brunswick, N.J., band Screaming Females, only sometimes screams in her songs. It's not a constant and it's what makes the moments when she does so…what's the word…enlightening. Yes, I believe it's enlightening. It's uplifting it feels like too. It's too easy to be out there suffocating, to be strangled into an existence that tends to reward stifled emotions, minimal acting out, falling into the paces of social norms and stricture.
Paternoster represents a bloody fury on occasion and she spills herself out as a crazed lover (on the band's song, "Boyfriend"), overcome with a jealous and damaged passion that, no matter what is done, will not be contained in its current setting. It is about to erupt and it's about to splatter all over the walls, a reaction that will take hours to clean up. It's as if she has a direct line to the poison of the heart, when things start to tank. She taps into the vitriol of those hearts that are no longer giving the benefit of the doubt.
She, drummer Jarrett Dougherty and bassist King Mike all work off of each other, on record, adding their own flourishes of unhinged mayhem, with manic punk rock beats, blistering guitar solos and growling low-end. Bringing the conversation back to the aforementioned song, we are dropped into the back-story of a girl who, at the age of nineteen, had a serious fever and the medicine men couldn't break it for a great long while. The girl becomes deranged, going over the scarlet falls and into a period of madness that consumes her and breaks her from reason for a while.
Paternoster sounds as if she's blacked out, seeing only the red of the devil, spewing about burning in hell and letting loose with a lashing that sends out an atomic blast, burning the faces and arms of anyone within a 10-mile radius of the microphone or speakers. It's a ripping performance and an essential song to discover her finest talents and to provide the set up for any other song the band makes, keeping in the back of your mind her ability to snap. It gives her beautifully wobbly vocals on "Fun" as well as on a cover of "Cortez The Killer" and others that added bonus of needing just a split second to turn prickly and downright nasty. Her nasty is so tasty and you root for it. You root for her to feel the need to pick up a lamp and throw it into a mirror or right through the living room window. You want her to go nowhere near a detoxification professional or facility. You want her to just fucking lose it because then, we all win. We win big.
As some of you would notice on daytrotter upcoming live session streaming page, Screaming Females has lined for their sophomore Daytrotter session recording schedule on ... お気づきの方もいらっしゃるかと思いますが、SFのセカンド・デイトラセッションのライヴストリーミングが３ドルにて生放送中継で観れます。
（＊日本時間の２月２１日（火曜日）の６：００AMです。 ↑クリックしてデイトラページへ。） 今後他に配信収録録音されるデイトラッターのセッションで、僕が個人的に注目しておりますのは友人のChristopher Paul StellingのInto It. Over It.、Talkdemonicそれぞれのセカンドセッションズと、Pretty Good Dance MovesとAir Wavesも気になっております。要ちぇけらーです。
Also there's Marrisa's solo project called "noun" also has a cd lp "Holy Hell" released in 2010. (Oh I just found the Lp vinyl version plus "s/t" Ep, new ep? also on 7" vinyl are now pre-ordering!) I suggest you to buy them all at their record label Don Giovanni Records:
but listen to the album on Amazon: (Amazon.com / Amazon.co.jp)
It seems her old cassette released stuff streaming on badcamp:
They, Don Giovanni, are really great indie puck rock label. I especially like a girl-front-poppy-punk band such as SF and Big Eyes from the label. ドン・ギオヴァニレコーズのレーベルメイトでSFの同郷でSFと同じスリーピースでガールズフロント／ギターであるBig Eyesというポップパンクバンドもお勧めです。Donより7"のシングル（ソールドアウト済み）と待望のデビューフルレンス12"ヴァイナルをリリースしております！
(*Unfortunately their DON G's debut 7" single Why Can't I" is out of print as well as seems out of downloaded...)
Oh Oh plus plus plus!
Don Giovanni announced their own label new release showcase in Brooklyn, NY on Saturday February 11th, 2012!! They will have a bunch of new label bands stuffs there, include Screaming Females' new 7"single "It All Means Nothing" off the new album (5th album) "Ugly" and noun's 7" and LP as well!
At the same time of a accidentally chance just a couple of weeks before this Daytrotter session released, I'd just found this band from my super random only-DM-email account. Which means from my discovering email address. If the current FREE STAFF world requires me to put the email address of mine to grab my copy or the shits, I would be forgetting about to check the downloading link, so that would be the same situation for the band in this case "accidentally." But the name of this band apparently you could remember was so remarkable on my next checks! Kinda compare of listening to between the Daytrotter tracks and the properly official released same tracks, of course, they are different, but not so totally different. The only thing that I could feel it up in between is like "tense" of the sound that band made for.
*Discog is below over this article on the bottom of this post.
＊セッション楽曲に対する、ディスコグラフィーはこの記事の一番下にて。
You kind of have to wonder if Robert and Rachel Kolar aspired to be each other's drinking buddies when they were sitting across the table from one another, getting through their bowls of Lucky Charms when they were growing up. As children, that must have seemed like something so far off and distant in the future that there was no use dwelling on it. If it was meant to be, it was meant to be and they would be there for each other. The way things have turned out, it sounds like they do this occasionally. They almost can't help themselves, being in a band together called He's My Brother, She's My Sister. It's one of those band names that would never beg any further explanation, but could drum up some Abbott & Costello acts, with flustered and tipsy bar patrons confused and begging for answers, asking, "Yeah, yeah, but what's your band called?" This only happens, of course, if the siblings are out and the night's getting a little long in the tooth. It's at this point when they start mentally writing crib notes, keeping closer tabs on what they've got cycling through their lubricated heads. The Los Angeles group, which is a six-piece in-full, relies on the ways that getting slightly out of your normal being helps put punctuation marks in the spots where they need them. Everything prior to four beers in winds up trickling out as a run-on sentence, without any capitalization and deciphering much of it is tricky. It's best to junk a lot of it and get to the bottom of the important stuff after a few rounds and something of a more focused head. It's no coincidence that a few drinks loosens everyone up, throws some rosiness into the cheeks and fires up the beginning flashes of a smile. It could just be the sad and depressing residues washing away, albeit temporarily, or it could just be the booze talking. In some ways, it's always welcome, this reconfiguration of problems and pluses. Robert and Rachel often trade lines in their songs, doubling conclusions most of the time and meeting in the middle, suggesting that even if they've split off and gone our separately, they've come to the same determinations. "How'm I Gonna Get Back Home," is one from the group's self-titled, debut EP and it addresses the need to let go of consciousness and just let the lights go off for a little bit. It's as if some things just need to be said and there's only one way to have them said, to feel entirely free to say them. They sing, "In the morning things won't seem so sweet," but there's no voice telling anyone that any of this is a bad idea that should be nipped in the bud right now, before anything can't be taken back. Rachel sings, "My luck's shot to shit, but I've still got my wits," and elsewhere asks, "Who would fall for a freak like me?/Well, who cares, I'm still gonna have some fun tonight." It must be that they've determined that it doesn't matter much because "all of a sudden, I feel like talking to everyone." In the end, in the morning, it's just going to wind up being a telltale night, with some pearls of wisdom in there, to be extracted over a late breakfast and hangover remedies.
ロバートとレイチェルの二人はよく、自身が書いて来た曲のフレーズや詩のラインをトレードしてみては、そのトレードの最中によく起こりえる、コンクリュージョン（＊「終い」「解釈」の意）に入れ違いがもし二人にあったりしても、僕らへはそれぞれの解釈に任せてくれるように、最後には一つの最終地点を与えてくれる。今回のセッションにもある楽曲「ハウム・アイ・ゴナ・ゲット・バック・ホーム」("How'm I Gonna Get Back Home")はそんな楽曲の一曲であり、彼らのデビューセルフタイトルEP（＊ディスコグ参照！）からの楽曲であり、
He's My Brother She's My Sister Discogfor the Daytrotter +@:
Track #3). & 4). from 6+1 track "S/T" EP released Oct2010*Track 4 "How'm.." is a free download track! 今回のデイトラ・トラック３＆４の楽曲は２０１０年１０月リリースの初バンドオフィシャルリリース、セルフタイトルEPに収録です。 "How'm..."はそこからのフリーダウンロードカットシングルです！
Also two items from HMBSMS for free & name your price!! You can grab!! A free download Dec2010's X'mas single "Merry Christmas Everybody" その他にも２アイテムスがデジタルリリースされていて、 ２０１０年のクリスマスシングルはフリーです。
And the latest single released May of 2011 is that you can name your price!! そして昨年5月リリースの最新シングルは金額自由設定式（フリーも可！）でDL！！
For their upcoming new album as their first full length and the tour: （HMB, HMSは只今デビューアルバムとそのリリースツアーの為のプレッジを行ってます）
Pledge.com (below!!)
Thanks,
Kennyy as MELTRICK
Edited on [(Fri) Jan/6th/2012] Posted on [(Thu) Jan/12th/2012]
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【本日の/Today's... BGM selections】
★VELTPUNCH / "Irony"...はなかったので、"Spectacle" from the latest/7th album "His Strange Fighting Pose" (2011)
★talk / "Sundae Flip" (*FREE DOWNLOAD single!! grab it out!／フリーダウンロード中！いえーい！)
★"Sundae Flip (in my room arrange)" from skm_records 2nd compilation [in my room - pract]より。 (Whole the compi is for free! grab'm out!!／全部フリーダウンロード、いえーい！) 2nd compilation [in my room - pract] by skm_records
★"Sundae Flip (Flip Inside This House Mix)" by Osamu Ansai (This is also for Free YEAH!／いえーい！！笑)
Session Credit: Words by @Sean Moeller, （記事 by ショーン・モーラー） Illustration by Johnnie Cluney, （イラスト by ジョニー・クーラー） Recording engineered and mastered by Matt Oliver （レコーディングエンジニア&マスタリング by マット・オリバー） Japanese Translation by Teshi （日本語翻訳 by テシ） Japanese Tittled by @Kennyy_MELTRICK （日本語タイトル by ケニー＿メルトリック）
★Thursday / "No Answers" live at Looney Tunes in W.Brooklyn, NY - RecordStoreDay2011
Thursday Discog for the session:
All the 3 song from their latest and 6th studio album "No Devolución" (April 2011) 今回収録の３曲は全曲新曲、一週間で作曲し上げたという楽曲による今年４月リリースの最新作にしてラスト作の６枚目のスタジオアルバム「ノー・ディヴォルション」にオリジナル収録です。
Buy the record (vinyl) on Amazon.com / Amazon.co.jp
New Jerseyで活動するバンド、Thursdayは整合がとれた数学とむちゃくちゃな合計値が混在する世界に僕らを連れて行く。問題が解決するという「計算」があるけれど、現実は大体それと異なって、車たちはそういう予想できない答えに苦労して対処している。時間の問題だが、結局道路脇で故障してしまう。その車（同じ製番のもの）のメタルの心臓にはストックが詰め込まれている。僕らは車がこれからもずっと調子よく動いて、ちゃんと昼か夜に与える栄養をパイプから受け取ってくれると信じている。彼らがおとなしくすれば、他の車のメタルの心臓も同じように行儀良くしてくれると信じている。それがお互いの利益になるしね。でもわからないかな。貧乏くじって大体引かれてしまうものなんだよ。他の機械と同じように、欠陥車もたくさんある。しかし、汚くなって、整備してみないと殆ど気づかれない。彼女達と寝て、自分が彼女達のことを好きだと気づくまで。
Some days we pretend like we're machines. We act as if we're just automobiles - counted on to start reliably every morning, in any condition. It could be bitterly cold. It could be unhealthily hot. There could be a deluge of rain, snow, hail, whatever could be falling from the sky at any given moment. We are relied on to react to the "key" being turned and he parts given their little doses of gasoline - getting that fuel into the lines. We haul the bones and the muscles, all the organs and our pleasantness wherever our day planner of Google calendar tells us to haul them. We act as if everyone else is an automobile, as well, doing similar hauling and being counted on to operate without paying much attention to what's really affecting it.
New Jersey band Thursday, takes us into this world of clean math and messy summations, where there's a belief that things should work out, but the truth is typically nothing like that and these machines have a hard time dealing with these travesties, with being broken down on the side of the road, even if that was only a matter of time. There's stock put into the metal hearts of these machines, these versions of machines. We trust that they'll stay in good shape, that they'll continue to receive whatever nourishment we send their ways, via the gullet, via the day or night. We trust that they'll behave themselves and that other metal hearts, in those other passing machines will do the same. It will all be mutually beneficial, but, wouldn't you know it, the short straw usually gets pulled. As machines go, there are a lot of lemons and they're always hard to tell until you begin to get dirty and start kicking their tires some, sleeping with them, finding yourself caring for them too much.
Thursday lead singer Geoff Rickly has made it a point to chronicle these abrasive tendencies in humans and the ways that they find of orbiting around each other, coming in contact with one another and spinning out, busting through the guard rails and plunging over the sides of mountains into heaps of mangled metal and surprise. He finds magic in the moments when people are falling apart, when they're breaking down and leaving wide swatches of their hide behind them, as if a trail, like the scattered pieces of semi tractor tires lying on the interstate to be dodged and avoided by everyone following.
He finds magic in the ways that people act as if they're islands, or the unstoppable machines mentioned above, moving through their dawns and dusks as if they'll always be there and they can't be bested or dented, ruffled or rearranged. He brings this beautiful coldness, an arching kind of free-fall or flailing feeling into the words that he sings.
He offers, "The more you take, the more you leave," here and there's an unbearable openness to the sentiment that still allows it all to be said. It's a slab of rubbery tread causing another swerving machine to react, hopefully well enough.
These three guys Pearl and the Beard from the current Brooklynsphere or more feels like Brooklyness are amazing. Amazed me a lot in such a very first moment when I met them, when I met their music. First that I still ever remember then was my dear friend, and my big love of, Aly of Lady Lamb the Beekeeper (from Portland, ME / currently in NYC/NewEnglands) had had a show with PATB once before sometime in just before summer season in this year as well as even that time was just after LLTB moved up(?) into the big apple, which had announced from her but I just couldn't make it because it was in NYC, and the big apple is apparently NOT my favorite city in the world entirely, so wasn't really so into it. BUT I got be crazy like immediately since I once checked PATB then from LLTB's announced show's lineup. Which was "no-complain-or-more-like-CAN'T-compalain" music for me, and also more like just "Threaten of Brooklyn Music Scene" for me. This is the big chance to being a time to be just into Brooklyn's scene every single Indie music fan says. And finally I got be able to make one of bunch of their shows was in Boston they came down to play in.. probably July of 2011. The lineup was so so, but totally they PATB made the night super. I think I still have the video my creepy ipod took.
This is like this sort of a long shot:
★Pearl and the Beard - intro "Black Vessel" ~ "Reverend" ~ "Letter to California" live in Boston. @TT.the bears, Cambridge, MA *16min video／１６分ものビデオなので、気長にお楽しみください。
And half a month ago? at my city and neighbor Somerville's newest venue called "Radio"had Pearl and the Beard with awesome bands together. Then I had talked to the band, three of them then a sexiest lady from the band told me they already got a session for Daytrotter which was soon releasing out. Oh got it. I must translate it. I must get start to make a beautiful relationship with/for this fucking amazing band from the Brooklyn artistic world, especially for Japanese of their new fans!! This is it. This is probably it for most of you first touch on them, theirs. To make a great encounter in between band/artist and fan/audience. I confidentially would say, this is my job for my god. This band reminded me more like gave me realized the thing. Yes, yes yes.
I'll get you in it.
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マイ・イントロ；
英語部のイントロで珍しく気持ちがもの凄くシンプルに綺麗に書けた気がしたものを、新たに日本語にしたり日本語で書くのは、ナンセンスな感じはありませんが個人的にはとても感覚的に切り替えが美味い事で来そうな気がしません。双方の言語に関して。（これがもっとマルチリンガルとかの方にはどうなるのだろうと想像してみたりしますが、まあ無駄ですね、その想像は（笑））ということで、Pearl and the Beard（パール・アンド・ザ・ベアード）、今年の初旬に友達でありそれ以前に音楽的にも人間的にももう大好きなAly（アリー）の、音楽的にディスクライヴするとソウルフォークみたいな、一人バンドLady Lamb the Beekeeper（レディー・ラム・ザ・ビーキーパー）が地元メイン州ポートランドから昨年の１１月にビッグアップルことNYCに拠点を引っ越して直後か今年の初めかに少し大きいイベントか彼女にとって大事なNYでのイベントのメインゲストに呼んでいたバンドがこのPATBでした。男女３人組によるソウルフルな歌とコーラスハーモニーとシンプルなのにその歌をも超える勢いで鳴り渡る楽器の力と彼、彼女達の人間性がじっくりと合わさった音。その時のイベント時にはNYという街、ないしはもう何年も前からインディーシーンを中心に”熱い”ブルックリンというエリアの街、にそこからの音楽は好きでもそこまで興味がなかったので（笑）ライヴに足を運びはしませんでしたが、そのラインナップが妙に気になったのでオンラインからチェックしました。数センテンス前に書いた通りのことを感じ、直感的に「ブルックリンの脅威」に少し怯え始めました、その時。そして、忘れもしない今年６月、PATBがやっとボストンに来てくれてライブを観ました。釘付けでした。音を初めて聞いたときには比べ物にならない衝撃とその脅威さが膨張しました。もう言葉通り「ブルックリンに脅されている」くらいのものです。
*I have also more photos and some new song they played at Radio in Somervile-MA in November 2011, last month that I had shot but hadn't edited yet. Stay tune!!
Oh but wait! there is already one the show video by my friend and my favorite awesomeness live music video taker Bob's one!! Take a look at:
★Pearl and the Beard - "Vessel" live at Radio on 11/30/2011
★Pearl and the Beard / "James" (brand new song) at Radio on 11/30th/2011 recorded by Bob.
僕の撮った先月１１月の彼らのライヴの写真とその時の新曲映像もありますので、近々、英語ブロッグの方にでもアップ出来ればと思います。それまで、この僕が初めて彼らのライヴを観た時のケンブリッジ TT the Bearsでのライヴ模様のiPod映像をご覧下さい。（その映像のオープニングのロング映像はこの記事英語部にて。）
★Pearl and the Beard / "Swimming" @TT.the Bears [() June//2011]
（レコーディング・エンジニア by マイク・ジェントリー） Japanese translation+tittle by @Kennyy_MELTRICK （日本語文＋タイトル翻訳 by ケニー・メルトリック）
Session Tracks:
Welcome to Daytrotter from Peal and the Beard
"The Lament of Coronado"
"Lost In Singapore"
"Vessel"
"Douglas Douglass"
P&tB Discog: Pysical cd on Amazon.com // MP3 on Amazon.co.jp
M-2 & 5 from PATB's 2nd album "Killing the Darlings" (2011) *There is also vinyl for only this album from their all discog which can be bought from their label website or at their show. (Check the below) この作品のみヴァイナルもリリースがあるのですが、基本的にはライヴ会場もしくは彼らのレーベルサイトでのオーダーのみの扱いです。
M-3 & 4 from 1st album "God Bless Your Weary Soul, Amanda Richardson"(2009)
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And also they have one more EP released in 2010 in between the 1st and the latest 2nd record called "Black Vessel EP" (cd/MP3)
*Their physical records are probably only sold at their show or online Family Records online Store!! Get your hard ones!! (They ship internationally!!) PLUS, you can grab their home recording live EP called "At Home With Pearl & Beard" for FREE on the website!!!!
You can picture the look of the sky in the Pearl and the Beard song, "Vessel." It gives you the willies. You're looking into the piercing eyes of tumult. It's the worst in air and clouds staring at you like they'll stop at nothing to end you, to wipe you clean off the map. The building acoustic guitars - played as if they were stuttering, stammering and losing their shit a little bit - and the sweeping, depths of the ocean strings make a scene that's crawling with villains. We're outnumbered by the bad vibes, but we're not sure if we're just imagining things. It could be just that. We're faced with a sea full of voices, with creatures restlessly roaming and swimming, flipping and flashing their tails and fins back and forth, bored and scared - tired of being both. There's a feeling that everything out there in the waters, upon the waters is plotting some kind of revenge. Some of it may have already happened - say, phase one of the revenge mechanism - as the song begins with a murder. It feels like something out of one of Hemingway's fishing excursions, but the spirit of the captive, the prize and the meal is speaking from the beyond. It could be a sturgeon or a tuna, some big, scaly conquest, and in defeat it sings, "Drain my gut/Spill it all out on the deck/Burn their hands/Sure as hell has burned my own/Sailor, come to me/Bend the wind and seas/Restless wandering/Sailor, come!" asking for the end. It feels like a suicide note, a begging for sweet mercy. It will all be over soon, on that deck, strung up, kicking and twitching for the last times.
Jocelyn Mackenzie, Emily Hope Price and Jeremy Styles, of this New York trio, set us up for these wonderful tales of open-ended horror and glory. "Vessel" might be a sea-based escapade, with waves cracking boats and people in half, winning mostly, though not getting too far, but "Douglas Douglass," from the New York band's latest record, "Killing The Darlings" is a revival song of the seediest provocations. It's a low-down, sweaty affair - a man stuck between a temptress of a new woman and a wife that makes his life hell. He wants something that he shouldn't take, but it's not going to stop him. The stomping and the clapping overtake us - providing his conniving heartbeat, the leader of the astray. Everything gets out of hand, he chokes his wife after a bender of apple wine and thinking through those swirling dark thoughts and goes to chase down the lady he believes he wants, the one who had said, "Give me give me what you've got/I'm gonna make you what you're not…/Give me, give me all your soul/I'm gonna dip you in my bowl." Mackenzie, Price and Styles continue, singing, "Long way down/It's a long way down/And he knows it." Douglas takes the tumble. It feels like a mighty drop and yet Pearl and the Beard still make it sound wholesome and buoyant, like the man had no choice and would do it the same way, given the opportunity. It's the splendor of folks making their own poor choices and getting to watch or listen through the consequences. It's our most rewarding form of entertainment.
I've decided that I'm going to make a cooking blog or erotic blog since I turned on my birthday a week ago, so the little start, I'm putting the stuff from here. 一週間前の誕生日、
Today is Aurore of Mean Creek's Birthday. Dedicating to her. Revising this of one of my confidential previous works for music web site called INDIE NATIVE.com in Japan! Again, Happy Birthday, Aurore! Super excited to Mean Creek's next record coming out!!
and also their smash hit seven inch "The Comedian" 7" single is also for FREE Downloading now. (But the physical is supposed to be sold out in the US, I think. Check it out on googling for the distribution! *I write about it in Japan down in Japanese below!)
★Mean Creek / "The Comedian" 7"
I think I should review their shows more, I have couple of their brand new songs that I ipod recorded them such as they played with YUCK at TT and this below flyer's show. (This flyer is one of my best favorite flyer in this year! And I have kinda influenced by this to just rough sketch my MELTRICK ...something for my @MELTRICK twitter account pix.) Well, whatever I will do it soon!
MELTRICK on twitter! (Did I tell you I made the new account of MELTRICK before? haha.)
I think, She's a friend of Mean Creek and mine too. lol And one of my respectable friends in Japan JOE interviewed Colleen Green, is on his blog (in Japanese, but so I will post the English version soon)!!
I feel this song is exactly sad song, even crying. (Maybe not only this song from Gem Club.) Maybe that's because I did this job. But we may not have to look away from the sadness or might be more "can't" do it if we were experiencing or facing the sad moments. This is a part of our life. I may be not good at following new music anymore that before or whose else (which is not good to be a music writer professionally though). Besides the realization that I have, I'm going to trust myself to have new musics by my own way. This Gem Club is absolutely one of it, that I've been really into before I could see the live music and talk to them in person, from online world.
I met Gem Club in person at PA's lounge where we're living each. And talked to the band plus their visionary-jay (VJ).
★Gem Club - live at PA'sLounge
They're supper sweet. One of my music lover friends explains them like "His voice comes up from a deep forest and..."
Poetry “In Wavelengths”:We’re in wavelengths for an evening. / I’m breaking up slowly. / See my face under electric lights / and hold me there in silver thread. / Lately I’ve been leaving. / No one has what they wanted.
They’re all over Pitchfork. They’re debuting videos on SPIN. They’re in the midst of finalizing a European tour, and they just completed their first festival run at the CMJ Music Marathon. It’s been awhile since a Boston band has hit buzz status with such a warm welcome as Gem Club, but for Christopher Barnes, Kristen Drymala and Ieva Berberian, it doesn’t mean the attention—or the music—necessarily came that easy. Just ask Christopher Barnes—
Barnes:It was amaaaazing. We had a really good time. We did some sort of off the cuff performances. We did one at this loft space in Brooklyn with some musical and visual pairings. I sort of wish we had had time to go and enjoy the festival because there was a lot of things I wanted to see there but I didn’t end up getting around to it.
So, your first festival’s behind you. What are you up to over the next couple of months? 今回、クリストファーにとっても初のフェスティヴァル経験だったわけね。それを踏まえて、今後の予定はどうなっているの？
Barnes: We’re in talks right now to go to Europe at the end of November. We have half of the tour dates settled but we don’t have anything set in stone that that’s going to be happening. We have all our fingers crossed. That’s the plan.
Has anything changed between you guys between this record and the last one? 今作（２０１１年９月に名門レーベルHardly Artリリースの「Breakers」）と、前作（２０１０年６月セルフリリースの「Acid and Everything」）との作品とで、メンバー間に何か変化はありましたか？
B: Ieva’s certainly a welcome addition. I feel like she’s an integral part of a lot of pieces on the record, and I feel like I can’t do those pieces without her performing them. In terms of collaboration, I’m looking forward to working with her more on upcoming releases. She’s a very creative person and I feel like she adds a very interesting dynamic creatively to songwriting.
Are there any songs that stand out on Breakers that were difficult to get through? Were pieces of the record more challenging than others? 「ブレーカーズ」の中の楽曲からの傑出で特に生み出すのが難しかった曲はありましたか？チャレンジングだった部分など。
B: We sort of booked the whole thing backwards—I was like, “Okay, I’m going to book a studio session in February but I’m not quite sure what I’m going to bring into that.” “In Wavelengths” never would have made it on the record because that was the song I wrote the night before I had to go into the studio …
<a href="http://gemclub.bandcamp.com/track/in-wavelengths">In Wavelengths by Gem Club</a>
"It was something that never would’ve happened had I planned for it."
（「この作品は僕が意図して創作したものなんかじゃない。」）
B: It happened out of being a total wreck, like, “I don’t have anything to bring to the fucking studio tomorrow! I better write something at home.” In terms of songs that were difficult to write,
<a href="http://gemclub.bandcamp.com/track/252">252 by Gem Club</a>
I wrote that about my sister who’s diagnosed with cancer. That was hard for me.
What about playing live? If these songs were difficult to write, does that inform their performance? ライヴでプレイすることに関してはどうですか？ もしこれらの書くに難航した楽曲というのはライヴでパフォーマンスするのにも影響がありますか？
B: Yeah definitely. I don’t want to sit here and tell people what the songs are about, you know? It’s nice if people can glean their own meaning from the pieces. In a live situation, if I can go to the source and if we can get there together, I feel like I’ve done my job. I think a lot of times that’s difficult for us because we’re sort of thrown into these situations where there’s a lot of background noise and a lot of people out on a Friday night.
As long as there’s one or two people listening, I feel successful.
Has anyone surprised you with their interpretation of or reaction to your music?
Definitely. I’m excited that people can take these songs their own way. People have certainly been off from where I’ve been, but it’s not insulting or stupid, you know?
GEM CLUB WITH THE LOOM, REVEREND, CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING
Edited on [(Sat) Nov/12th/2011] Thru [(Mon) Nov/14th/2011] [(Wed) Dec/14th/2011]
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【本日の/Today's BGM 】
At this time for my regular BGM selection section on my blogs, would like to introduce just really newcomers in popular indie world in Japan. ちょっと日本のヤングなバンドマン達を？笑
トップのコメント、「イントロ透明少女」って！それゆったら！（たぶん、あかん！笑）
★caroline rocks / "白昼夢" (Promotion(Music)Video) (Title means "daydreams" in Japanese)
Whiteつながり。先月、the Naked and FamousとThe Chain Gang of 1974 のカップリングツアーのオープナーに抜擢されてて出会ったこちらUSの若手バンド。メンバーむっちゃええ人たちで、5人組のひとりの最年少は最近高校卒業したばかりの１８歳とか、ゆーてました！驚き！
同郷の盟友Radical Faceプロデュースのアルバム『You and Yer Good Ideas』で2003年にデビュー。インディーロックをルーツにしたヒップホップで数々のMCバトルやライヴによってアメリカ中でファンベースを拡大してきた米ミネアポリス在住のヒップホップ・アーティストAstronautalisことAndy Bothwell。3年ぶりとなる4thアルバムをCeschiのFake Four Inc.よりリリース。これまでの作品が歴史的なフィクションや過去や忘れ去ったことのドキュメントだったのに対して、本作は彼自身の自叙伝的作品となっています。グラミー賞ノミネートのプロデューサーJohn Congleton、Tegan & SaraのTegan Quinn、Radical Face (Electric President)、Midlake & The Riverboat Gamblersのメンバー、P.O.S. (Rhymesayers)やAliasまでが参加。アメリカで最高のストーリーテラーと称されるスキルは、ヒップホップでありロックでもあって、かつヒップホップでもロックでもない、この新たなポップ・ブルースでついにネクストレヴェルに到達しました。傑作。
若かりし頃はバトルMCとしても名を馳せ、音楽的バックボーンはロック・カテゴリーにルーツを持つ、シアトルのラッパー/シンガー・Astronautalisの3年ぶりとなる新作!参加アーティストは、グラミーにもノミネートされたプロデューサー・John Congletonの他、Tegan Quinn (Tegan & Sara)、Radical Face (Electric President), Midlake & The Riverboat Gamblers、P.O.S. (Rhymesayers)、Alias (Anticon/Sage Francis)、Cecil Otter (Wugazi)、Lazerbeak (Doomtree)ら、インディ・ヒップホップ界のファイネスト達が集結。叙情的なライミング・センスには定評のある彼だが、本作ではそのスキルと独特のキャラクターに磨きがかかり、ジャンルの枠を更に超越し幅広い支持を集めるであろう好アルバムに仕上がっている。
Album Details
The sounds and styles on Astronautalis's albums are an animal not so easily caged, and his latest release, This Is Our Science is no exception to that tradition of wild genre bending. Features Tegan Quinn (Tegan & Sara), Radical Face, (Electric President), members of Midlake & The Riverboat Gamblers all waltzing in time to the work of P.O.S. (Rhymesayers), Alias (Anticon/Sage Francis), Cecil Otter (Wugazi), Lazerbeak (Doomtree), and more of indie hip-hop's finest.
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では、本編、 今年２月配信開始の彼のデイトラッターの翻訳です！
Astronautalis
Debut Daytrotter session released February 22nd, 2011
As part of this session, Astronautalis' (or Charles Andrew Bothwell's) "Welcome To Daytrotter" tag features the voice of what sounds like a beleaguered man when he wishes us all the best, as he says, "I hope you are all well-fed, wealthy and wise." After hearing "Freestyle" and his prelude to it, telling us that he's been on the road for two solid years, we take Astronautalis as a man who's had enough of himself and of weariness for a great long while, and if he could, he'd try to get away from himself for a good, long break. It wouldn't be forever, but without a doubt, he's had enough for a while, been tapped out for some time now - and though it might actually be fueling a new deposit of sunken spirits, turned creative prose, it's not actually healthy at all. He hopes that we're all well-fed, wealthy and wise, but he hasn't taken any pains to wish the same things for himself and he's kind of a wreck. "Freestyle" is a dense song, filled with copious references to everyday things, feelings as they've been built up and have put the body and mind in question to the test. He sings about a life that has been made into an out-of-control parade of the zombie, of a man going round in circles - doing the same things, eating the same things, experiencing the same things, hating and loving the same things - or more, of a man twisting himself into the ground, like a screw. It's a scene that makes you feel as if you're suffocating, getting buried alive, even as you're drinking that good whiskey, even as you're doing what most regular people would consider the highest form of living: traveling, meeting people and playing music. The question that arises though is, at what cost does one allow themselves to be driven crazy? It all just blurs and Bothwell raps that he vaguely remembers what his sheets smell like, thinking that they smell like his father's used to smell like when he was the age that the son is about to be reaching soon. He thrives on the sweaty ideas that come in passing and in a simplicity that comes with moving along from one day to the other without many strings attaching him to any one stop. It can be liberating and horrifying, all at once. He sings, "I traveled around the country, living off of dumb buddies and good looks/High fives and handshakes is all you need to get by/Drink tickets and cheap beer is all I need to survive." He sings all in a sort of monotone but with a flare that makes him seem as if he would still bleed if he were sliced. He's not a corpse yet, even if he feels like one.
女の子に大人気なPhillyの若きインディーロック長髪野郎、Kurt Vile（カート・ヴァイル）がギタリストとして以前参加していたバンドとしても知られる、War on Drugsのデイトラッターセカンドセッションがリリースされました。
実は８月にライブを観ていてその後に昨年２０１０年のThe War on DrugsのDaytrotterセッションを発見したので翻訳していたんですが、未完なままで。ライヴ後、アダムともほんの少しだけ喋る機会があり、ライブはもちろん彼の雰囲気や物販で彼のご両親がついて回っていた感じなど、とても好印象でしたのでそのデビューの方のセッションを直後に取りかかる決意しておりました。
通り過ぎていく州が僕らに語りかける。僕らの旅の途中に骨の髄から血のまでを突抜けては、まるで肌心地ちの様に包み込んでくれる。そんな時、僕らはまっすぐ前を向く事すらに緊張したりする。まるで車を崖っぷちまで停めて覗いてるとか、突然の衝撃によってハンドルを右に持っていかれ、何かに正面衝突しコンクリートヴリッジの堤防に突っ込むような感じを抱き、終いには巨大な日の中、といったエンディングを向かえるのではないか、というような感覚を抱いている。時として、我々は悩み苦しみ、その苦しみから解放されることを望んでいたりする。それは喫煙スペースから抜け出して解放された場所で煙草を箱から抜いて一服する瞬間のそれと同じである。 それはちょっと眠れない罪悪感を感じながら田舎のバーへと一杯のナイトキャップ（寝酒）を求めに思い足取りで向かおうとするときのそれと同じである。ただ、このどれにも僕らがフィラデルフィア（Philadelphia）のバンド、ザ・ウォー・オン・ドラッグス（The War On Drugs「麻薬戦争」の意）のレコードに聞き入るときに思うことは当てはまりやしない。
The passing states work on us. They get to us and the travel through our bones and our blood, wrapping us up like skin. At times, we get too stressed out to even see straight. We feel as if we might just take the car over the cliff or a sudden impulse could just lead us to jerking the wheel to the right, ramming the thing head-on, directly into the concrete bridge embankment, ending it all in one gigantic fire ball. These are the times that make us suffer and rely on our releases. It's what brings us to thumping our packs of cigarettes to get the tobacco in the right place. It's what leads us to guiltily trudging down to the local bar for a lengthy nightcap. None of this is what we think about doing when we listen to the records made by Philadelphia band, The War On Drugs. As a matter of fact, we think very opposite things. As people, we often wonder what the appeal is for dogs thrusting their heads out of cars, as they motor down the road, whipping their head and neck fur back as the quick and cool air blinds them. We get closer to the answer as we listen to lead singer Adam Granduciel and band's latest masterpiece, "Slave Ambient." It's a salve to any high blood pressure times, to anything that might borderline on stress. It's a record that has us throwing our own heads out of the windows of moving cars and we can understand why it's done by our tail-wagging best friends. It makes our cheeks tickle and it lets us get smothered by the rushing fields and the bleeding colors, just swimming in the maelstrom of sensations and wonders that can get no closer to us than arm's length unless we decide to stop and walk around, which we don't do because then we'd never get to where we're heading. We can think about such a thing philosophically, accepting the conflicting ideas of arrival where we intend to go and the journey through the good stuff as it disappears forever, mostly lost to the scenic goodbye. Granduciel writes the way we feel when we're one sheet to the wind, in the middle of the afternoon. We're not drunk, but we feel good. We feel like we're settling in for a little bout of introspection that's going to do us a bit of good. We feel nostalgic for the things that just happened, things that we can't take back, things we'd love to live again - already -- and things that we know should be left behind, the artifacts of our fingerprints and our personal smudges. His songs are like the light kisses of fleeting thoughts and dreams we once had lying around doing nothing for the longest time, or doing nothing forever. The dreams sound half-cooked, those of a real dreamer's heart and yet the songs come across as a montage of a brilliant life filled with little that a biographer would ever find of importance, but that was the man and what he was and it was good.
Hi there, it's been a little while I think, I feel? I got moved recently and waited for being connected to the internet a while as well. It's school back season, new things coming up. But and And, I may be also getting re-chances by chance, so that at this point, for me, this is sort of important thing to translate even this February released session of Daytrotter by Blue Hawaii from Montreal, Canada. The female singer is also singing in her another band Braids. Both are too much beautiful. But I suppose I have known them Blue Hawaii first, some time in last year? According to the order. (Well, to get music, it might be "It doesn't matter" though.)
Blue Hawaii debut Daytrotter session released Feb 3, 2011
Words by Sean Moeller Illustration by Johnnie Cluney Recording engineered by Brad Kopplin Recorded at Break Glass Studio in Montreal, Canada during the month of October, 2010 during the Pop Montreal festival Japanese translation by @Kennyy_MELTRICK
Tracklist:
Welcome to Daytrotter from Blue Hawaii
"Casstle of Clouds"
"Cect"
"Katie"
"Lilac"
*1). M-2"Castle of Clouds," M-4"Katie" and M-5"Lilac" from their first album "Blooming Summer"(2010) and M-"Cect" from sold out Casset Tape "Blue Hawaii / Braids Split" ＊1).M-4の"Cect"はソールドアウトのBraidsとのスプリットカセットから、それ以外の３曲はデビューアルバム「Blooming Summer」にオリジナル収録です。
*2). You can Download the entire album for FREE or Donation from their record LBL Arbutus Records here and also you can purchase the cd(? currently, used to be CT I believe... and I'm still looking for the tape though. lol) ＊2).カナダのArbutus Recordsから音源はドネイト式もしくはFREEでダウンロード出来ます。
ストラドレル-プリストンが「キャッスル・オブ・クラウズ」("Castle of Clouds")という楽曲内 で「雲で出来たお城に住む誰かを見つける〜」と歌っていれば、「セクト」("Cect")（僕らデイトラッターとしてはもっとそんな雲が分厚くその存在を知らしめている楽曲なのではないかとなだめかして導いてる）では、主人公たちが何処か決っして辿り着けやしない場所へと切望している様が描かれている気がする。それはスウィートでナチュラルで、僕らは基本的にはいつだって自然体で、それでいて固い強さを誇るような場所にとどまっているようでもあるし、この切望感にはそぐわなず決して辿り着けはしない場所でもある気がする。そんな空白だけど最高な状況下の中でマッサージさせられていて、盲目的になりそんな途方もなく揺るぎもなく、ゆがんだ地平線の反対側に位置するビジョンを観ている。僕らは邪魔されたり苛立っているわけではなく、むしろわくわくしていて、巡ってくる事はないチャンスのスターライトに恋いこがれている感覚だ。ストラドレル-プリストンの噴射される声はクッションのようにふんわりしてて、あわあわもしてて、天高く昇っていくようである。彼女はただそんなアングルへと火を灯し放とうとしていたり、彼女自身の体の一部を辿り着けない場所へと向けてカタパルトで放っているのである。
The chance only comes a few times a year when I can get out to one of the greater cities in America - San Francisco. Usually, it's only a few days and it's always a working trip, so time is limited, but when you're there, you gasp often. You get down to the wharf in the mornings or early evenings and you're in awe. You get out on foot, running through the wooded areas along the coast, and up through the dirt paths that pop you out into the neighborhood of some of the Zodiac killer's ghastly acts, out and up through the Presidio area and you're quickly in love, if horribly out of breath and feeling the nasty pangs of lactic acid buildup in your legs. You could go on and on, really, citing bits and pieces of the cityscape that can't be found elsewhere. It's a city that you keep coming back to, physically and mentally - the drizzle, the fogginess, the thought of what it must have been like to attempt to escape from Alcatraz island, the water and the general feeling that you can't go any further west, that it does feel like the last resort. While Alex Cowan and Raphaelle Strandell-Preston of Blue Hawaii, call a city like Montreal, Canada - which strangely shares some characteristics with the Bay Area - home, there's something about the slightly warmer, at the very least, Californian vibe of San Francisco that makes it easy to feel as if they are misplaced. It might be better to consider them misplaced, however, as the longing that exists in the duo's hazy electro gives us the strongest pull and if we imagine that we're listening, but wishing to be somewhere very different, it feels very appropriate. Strandell-Preston sings about "finding someone in a castle of clouds," on the song "Castle of Clouds," but what it seems like we can hear in that song and in "Cect" (a song that we somehow coaxed more of the clouds out of, even though they were thick and present on their own) is someone wishing for the elsewhere, wishing for some place that they cannot reach. It feels sweet and natural, as if we're all stuck between a rock and a hard place most of the time, never able to be where we really want to be. We are left massaging that void the best that we can, looking off and into the static of distance, seeing a distorted vision of what lies on the other side of the horizon. We aren't bothered by this, but intrigued by it, wishing by starlight for a change that might never be made. Strandell-Preston's outbursts even feel cushioned, foamy, as her voice soars to different heights. She's just trying to angle the shots fired, trying to catapult some part of herself to that place she can't be.
Sadly, it happens sometimes that a session gets unintentionally buried and shuffled around and we can't stay out ahead of band rumblings and dynamics and said band dies on the vine, just as they were beginning to see some good things happen to them. So is the case with Los Angeles band Mika Miko, a group that came of age and began catching steam as the Smell in L.A. was all the rage and groups like HEALTH and more were gaining notoriety in freaky and more standard music circles. The unwashed set was taking notice and the aggressive and agitated sounds of pissed off ladies and snarly guitars was ripping holes in jeans and tearing the elbows out of shirts. It was a wet and slobbery kiss that doubled as a bitch slap from a band of rough-around-the-edges artists just looking to stir it up as sweaty and as crazy as they possibly could. The band called it quits shortly after the completion of the tour during which this session was recorded in the summer of 2009 and it's here that we're able to hear one - if not the final recording the band ever made - showcasing the band's snottiness and its scruffiness at its rawest, in a live setting that it was best known for.
Last night (Friday midnight of October 14th), it was heavy raining but I decided to head up to couple places for several music. Well, several kinds of, several genres of music. One venue in the midnight time in Allston, at new house venue called Halfway House, I saw two Brooklyn bands called "Little Gold" and "ABADABAD" touring over to Boston with two of my friends as well as my favorite Boston bands "Mutual Benefit" and "Streight Angular" up there. I found myself how much I love underground but I have to get more much major music in the world as well. It wouldn't be like... intentionally "hates" if I have hated these majoring music without notice, that I hope. That realization was one because of this band from Brooklyn, NY, Little Gold. Here the thing I found themselves afterwards. Cause I missed a chance to grab their vinyls in person from them after the sweet but really rocked sounds of their performance in the long squared space basement.
ブルックリンのバンド、リトル・ゴールド（Little Gold）はスリーピースのバンドで、その存在を我々に疑わせつつも正体不明な -- 正にあの胴体をすり抜けるタイプの -- 存在として気配を感じさせ、くすぐらせてくるようなあの手のゴーストが出てくる映画を連想させる様な楽曲を書くバンドである。気取らずに聴ける自然と心に入ってくる、そんな音楽である。スーっと入ってくるのである。（今回のセッション楽曲の一曲）「ハーフ・ザ・タイム」（"Half The Time"）という曲なんてまさに、このトリオが持つ多くの楽曲群で特にスーっと入ってくる楽曲を選べと言えばこの曲といわんばかりにヒットする楽曲である：例えるなれば、シャープに炸裂するガレージポップが時折頭を突き抜けて夢想する感覚すら覚えるほどで、それは完璧なるまでに自然に巻き起こるのである。それは唯一の救い、みたいなものかも知れない。彼らの楽曲はベッドで多くの時間を費やしているか、もしくはそう夢想しているかの様で、すべて心地よくほんわかしていて、日々の重荷やブルーな物事からは遠く離れていって、彼らのもつ宝物や彼らが放つ一語一句の言葉をリピートするオウム達を想像させてくれる。それは「ハーフ・ザ・タイム」で歌われる「どれが僕のベイビーだい／どれが俺のマネーなんだい／安らげる夜はいったいどれなんだ／そんな時のおよそ半分を掛けて決心したのさ」といったフレーズに表れ、クリスチャン・デ・ローック（Christian De Roeck）とブライアン・マークハム（Brian Markham）とパット・プロデリック（pat Proderick）（または、キリスト・オブ・スモーク（Christ of Smoke）、ハム（Ham）そしてプリミティヴ・マン（Primitive Man =「原始人」の意））達がこの音楽で手にしているものは、思うに、僕らがピクニックバスケットに詰めて、金だけの為のそんな一日の予定を全て吹き飛ばすべきだ、なんて事であろう。もしくは、ダイヤモンドと子供なんて選択幅のことなんて忘れてしまって、好奇心の赴くまま、その特別な日にお天道様も赴くそんな日に経験出来ることをすればいいのさ！なんてことを彼らは言っているのかも知れない。この３人の男たちはデイドリーマーズ（「夢想家たち」）で、あるがままの彼ら自身を受け入れてて、そう身を置く事の重要さを彼らの前作アルバム「オン・ザ・ナイフ」（"On The Knife" 2009）ではしばし言及している。エッヂをそぎ落としソフトにし、より健全なソウルである -- じっくりと座り込めるカウチ（Couch「長いす」）での仕事っぷりで培われることみたく。僕らは座り込み、そんな喧噪の中での寂しさに、そっと目を閉じて、何を感じる事が出来るかという事に身を注げるである。
Why does it seem like the easiest thing to lose sight of is what's really important? There are all of those self-help books out there reminding us to not sweat the small things and then get yourself ready to see how much happier you will find yourself. It's a simple thing to do, to just forget that if we have our family, our health, a roof over our heads and food on the table for at least two squares a day, things really aren't ever all that bad. Some of the happiest people in the world have just that or less and some of the unhappiest people in the world have a thousand times more than that. It's all a matter of perspective and when we're forced to take stock in what we need to care about, we get set appropriately. Brooklyn band Little Gold is a three-piece that writes music that passes through us like the movies suggest a ghost would, having us believe that nothing might be happening, but then we feel a warm rush and a tickle as the phantom-like body takes that short cut through our torsos. It's music that affects us without much trying. It just does. A song like "Half The Time," is a hit song if there ever was one and it opens up to us the way many of the trio's songs do: as examples of sharp bursts of garage pop that remind us that dreaming or getting out of our minds sometimes is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. It might even be our lone salvation. They spend a lot of their time in bed, or imaging themselves in a bed, all cozy and insulated, far away from the heavier burdens, the heavier blues, left to imagine their treasures and the parrots that repeat their every word. It's sung on "Half The Time, "Which was my baby/Which was my money/Which one do I feel like saving tonight/I've got a mind to decide almost half of the time," and we think that what Christian De Roeck, Brian Markham and pat Proderick (or Christ of Smoke, Ham and Primitive Man) are getting at is that we should just pack a picnic basket and blow off all of our plans for the day because it's only money we're working for. Or, they might be saying that there's no need to choose between our diamonds and our children, so forget about it, it's alright to let the mind wander, to just experience what the weather has in store that particular day. These three men are daydreamers, and admit so themselves, and they often refer to the importance of doing so on the band's last album, "On The Knife." It takes the edge off and makes for a softer, more tolerable soul - something that acts as a worked in couch that provides a great sit. We can just sit around with ourselves, those lonely in a crowd, and keep our eyes closed, see what we can feel.
Following my previous translation for the GIVERS of an old shit, I feel like I should do this new on time. And hope to see them in Boston soon. Oh but I'm not sure yet...
1). It's takes a trick and a half not to think about the springtime when listening to Louisiana's GIVERS' debut full-length album, "In Light." We tend to think about watering cans and the sprinkles that they bring. We think about the long, green hose running from the faucet at the side of the yard, packed with a powerful stream of water, ready to bathe some tilled earth or the blades of a begging lawn, ready for some drink and some reflection. We think about the seeds that were lovingly placed into the tiny little crevasses in the dirt, covered over and left down there in their incubating graves, waiting for their birthdays and a hole in their roofs. Without too much trying, we consider all of those soon-to-be-living things that we place underground, keeping our fingers and toes crossed that they'll find their way up to the sun that they aren't aware exists, but they can feel the warmth from it for half of every day. Those seeds then have to wonder about the change that takes places during the overnight hours, when it gets so chilly. They must be so curious, when they first begin to sprout and have more feeling in their extremities than they ever have before.
2). GIVERS makes us feel like those planted seeds must start feeling. They make us feel the faith that those seeds were placed into the ground with. There's nothing that can be done for any of those seeds, but to give them the very basic things that time has taught us they will need to poke themselves out of the soil and amount to anything that can be recognized as fruit, or grain or vegetable. It's the same thing with people. It's that blind faith that anyone knows what they're doing to get from Point A to Point B, with most of us learning rather quickly that points C-through-Z are all mixed up and often fall there in-between our shoving off pier and our true destination. There's a lot of growing, a lot of reading, a lot of failing, a lot of drowning and suffocating, a lot of seeking that has to come before anyone ever gets to a place where they feel that they're amounting to anything that could bear any figurative fruit.
3). GIVERS music is full of that life blood, of that heavy pulp that comes from the wringing out of the insides, of getting into those spaces where the muscles are tougher. It bellows CARPE DIEM, as if Tiffany Lamson, Taylor Guarisco, Kirby Campbell, Josh LeBlanc and Kick Stephan were are tattooed with the word over and over, forced to look at those nine letters, arranged as they are, and ruminate about the meaning of the phrase and what they're doing about it on a daily basis - the full embodiment of the phrase. You can hear it all over "In Light," that need to wake up, shake out the lethargy and just get to it. It's about stretching the limbs out as far as they can possibly go and living, goddamn it. Lamson and Guarisco sing, at one point on the record, "Don't get stuck in the meantime/There's no such thing as the meantime." It all means the same thing. It may as well just say, "Live, goddamn it," and it may as well double back on itself and trail off, out and to the distance, the gleaming of a smile and the purest of manmade exhaustions left behind.
As some of you following my Japanese twitter and my very close friends might know that I have declared I am not so into him, HONESTLY. There's certainly enough reason for that in myself. But I hate to say the reason why, so I'm not gonna say it though, I have a reason. And I also feel like, James Blake is, for me like, approximately a next year's break now. Maybe not yet. But now he's in the break, especially in the US? in EU? in Japan? (well, actually three big famous major venues he's gonna stop playing at as his headlining shows on his Japan tour is next weekend!) whatever, it feels like current dub scene really needs him secretly or apparently, or much more scenes needed so. I'd suddenly felt in this morning that I want to know myself why NOT so being into him (or much less like would say "his music") obviously in/from my heart now, and gotta an idea to find the thread from to translate in Japanese to more focus on himself an interview my friend music writer/blogger Liz Pelly interviewed him by phone, and the Sunday just after she did it on that Friday with Blake, I had a chance to hear how she interviewed him nicely as well as she got some amazingly sounds-nice answers from himself about his current surrounding.
Take a look at his website, you'd see movie motions automatically played on the top page of his official website (is, for me, much more nicer than his... wait, not gonna say that I promised, yes.) :
He played The Paradise Rock Club on October 3rd 2011. (where a Japanese million hit maker singer song writer UTADA as an US artist has used to play at.)
Poised in a distinctive middle ground between leftfield electronica and soulful R&B, 23-year-old Londoner James Blake has been making a name for himself of late. Back in July, he impressed with his packed performance at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, and his homonymous Universal/Republic release was nominated for the prestigious 2011 Mercury Prize, keeping company with Adele's21and PJ Harvey'sLet England Shake(Polly Jean won). The post-dubstep producer and singer-songwriter spoke to me from the road in Portland, Oregon, in advance of his Monday night show at the Paradise Rock Club. We talked about his influences, playing to American crowds, and covering female singer-songwriters in the male-dominated sphere of dubstep.
(Her intro is gonna be) TBE!レフトフィールド・エレクトロニカとソウルフルなR&Bの間の独特なミドルグラウンドで独自性を放つ、２３才のロンドナー（Londoner）ジェームス・ブレイク（James Blake）は「レイト（late）」と自身の事を名称する。今年７月に、シカゴのピッチフォーク・ミュージック・フェスティヴァルにて満員の会場にてそのパフォーマンスで印象付け、ユニヴァーサル／リパブリック（Universal/Republic）同時リリースの作品は名だたる「2011 マーキュリー賞（2011 Mercury Prize）」にノミネートされ、アディール（Adele）の「２１」やPJハーヴェー（PJ Hervey）の「レット・イングランド・シェイク（Let England Shake）」と同賞を獲得していた。（ポリー・ジーン（Polly Jean）が優勝）そんなポスト・ダブステップのプロデューサーでありシンガーソングライターである彼が、月曜の夜にボストンはパラダイス（Paradise - venueというライブハウス会場）にて行われる彼のショウに先駆けて、オレゴン州（Oregon）はポートランド（Portland）から話をしてくれた。彼が受けた音楽的影響や、アメリカでのライブ／オーディエンスについて、そして女性シンガーソングライターの楽曲をダブステップという男性中心のシーンの領域の中でカバーすることについて話をしました。
YOUR MUSIC TAKES AN ALMOST AVANT-GARDE ATTITUDE TOWARD SPACE, SILENCE, AND MINIMALISM — THERE AREN'T A LOT OF HOOKS OR CHORUSES. BUT IT STILL HAS THE ACCESSIBLE APPEAL OF POP MUSIC. WHAT LED YOU TO THINKING THIS WAY ABOUT MUSIC?
▽James Blake " I suppose I didn't really think about hooks or sophistication. In my mind I was trying to design something that was original that I hadn't heard before, on every track. . . . I suppose that was the quest, and then it became trying to let my music breathe within those parameters, and make nice, melodic ideas sound interesting."
WHAT WAS SO TRANSFORMATIVE ABOUT DISCOVERING DUBSTEP?
▽JB "I didn't start producing until I listened to dubstep a few years ago. That was when I decided to pick up [software program] Logic and start making beats and stuff. I had been playing piano for a long time but I hadn't been producing until then. It was just really heavy, emotionally and sound-wise. There was really a lot of depth to it, and space. It was fun and exciting. And it is still, to me."
DO YOU PAY A LOT OF ATTENTION TO THE WAY PEOPLE WILL RESPOND PHYSICALLY TO YOUR MUSIC?
▽JB "Yeah totally. It's designing music to sound systems, trying to follow in the footsteps of people who made music to sound systems in the genre of dub. That whole sound-system culture is something that kind of carried over to dubstep. Producers try to make a sub sound as tight as it can, to give you that feeling."
DO YOU NOTICE THE CROWDS AT YOUR AMERICAN SHOWS ARE DIFFERENT FROM UK CROWDS?
▽"Yeah I think they are just really supportive. Not that people in the UK aren't, but I think there's a different attitude towards music over here. Especially if you're from the UK. I think there's a familiarity with a lot of the things I grew up listening to that a lot of people [in the US] did as well."
DUBSTEP IS A PRETTY MALE-DOMINATED GENRE, BUT YOU'RE PLAYING DUBSTEP-INFLUENCED MUSIC AND THEN COVERING ARTISTS LIKE JONI MITCHELL. AND ONE OF YOUR BEST-KNOWN TRACKS IS A FEIST COVER, "THE LIMIT TO YOUR LOVE." IT BRINGS TOGETHER THIS MALE-DOMINATED SPHERE WITH THIS VERY FEMININE, EMOTIONAL PIANO MUSIC. DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON THAT?
▽JB"I definitely do. At my shows, it's a 50/50 split every time between men and women, and I think that's amazing. It's also multi-culturally pretty split evenly as well. In terms of gender though, I think the purest form of who you are will always come out in your music if you're honest with it. And I'm not an outwardly overly masculine sort of personality. I've always been kind of laid back in that respect. The things that drew me to dubstep in the first place weren't necessarily the kind of testosterone-driven environments that you got from say, late jungle or some of the drum 'n' bass stuff that was happening after that. I think the dubstep that has come over to the US, and certain producers — who I can't even be bothered naming — have definitely hit upon a sort of frat-boy market where there's this macho-ism being reflected in the sounds and the way the music makes you feel. And to me, that is a million miles away from where dubstep started. It's a million miles away from the ethos of it. It's been influenced so much by electro and rave, into who can make the dirtiest, filthiest bass sound, almost like a pissing competition, and that's not really necessary. And I just think that largely that is not going to appeal to women. I find that whole side of things to be pretty frustrating, because that is a direct misrepresentation of the sound as far as I'm concerned."
ダブステップは殆ど男性によるジャンルという認識が強いですが、あなたはダブステップ影響下の音楽をやりながらもジョニ・ミッチェル（Joni Mitchell）などのアーティストをカバーしたりもしてますね。そんな中で有名なのがファイスト（Fiest）の"The Limit To Your Love"ですが。特にこのカバーは男性的な存在感でありながらとてもフェミニンな感覚も同時にあって、エモーショナルなピアノミュージックですよね。この点について思ことがありますか？
▽JB "Oh no, not at all. Those are just songs that I like, and definitely not decisions I made based on gender at all. But I have noticed this kind of pattern in female pianists, especially, the style of play is a very supportive role within the composition. And I love that. And I kind of envy that. Because there's this kind of male tendency to flourish and to embellish on things that might not need it. And that is definitely an ego-driven thing which I don't think someone like Joni Mitchell really was a purveyor of. And I kind of appreciate that about her music."
★Youth Lagoon / "Posters" live @Rhythm Room Phoenix Arizona09/05/2011
↓ヴァイナル安いっすね。。
thnx & great job Liz!
Kennyy as MELTRICK
Edited on [(Wed) Oct/5th/2011]
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【本日の/Today's BGM selections】
★Rubblebucket / "Red Line Beat" (live)
At Camp Jam in the Pines Sep-18th-2010
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愛しのエミリー。大好きです。
この映像にも映っているメガネの、FMLYのメンバーでもあるサミーやBIRTHDAYSの面々は
ストレコさん（このページの右横のバーにもあるTHE STONE RECORDSさん）経由で知り合えた今ではかけがえのない僕のボストンでの友人なのですが、僕がエミリーと初めて会った時に、サミーが「He's your huge fan!」みたいな紹介をしてくれるものだからえらく緊張しましたけれど（笑）、いろいろお話し出来て、、ってのが九月の頭の出来事だったのですが、まだレポれてません！！わーお。
★Emily Reo / ""
live at FMLY FEST 12/27th/2011 Los Angels
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Congrats! Miss. Saucy's debut album has just released!
(*An introduction of the post is TBA by some reason! )
But I have seen Asobi Sekusu' gig couple times, and also talked even interviewed them. So it's very gladly to translating their sophomore session on Daytrotter today!
AS at Great Scott, Allston MA:
Yuki played drums for the show finale at the time.
AsobiSeksu @WMFO Tufts Univ. Radio Fest 2011
My best friend Alex organized the fest and AS was gusted!
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(*今回の日英イントロ／パラグラフに関しては事情により近々公開予定。)
Asobi Seksu - 2nd Daytrotter Session
"Heist Of Light And Darkness"
「光と陰の夜盗」
（ザ直訳！）
Released September 27, 2011
Words by Sean Moeller Illustration by Johnnie Cluney Recording engineered and mastered by Matt Oliver
It seems like there's a mission surrounding or that's being implied in the Asobi Seksu song, "Trails." Off the band's latest album, "Fluorescence," the song is a huge tidal wave of sound, smashing against a coast unseen. It's an unrelenting storm and if it weren't so oddly joyous, it would sound like one of the most furious displays of aggression or jitteriness that one had ever heard. It doesn't sweep you off your feet. It sets your feet and the ground they're standing upon on fire. It's as if a dribbled out line of gasoline has been left all over the places that the song wants to take us. It's got something that it wants us to see and then, in the places where it feels the time is right, a lit match is thrown down and the scene gets torched. It gets hotter than we can stand and we have to retreat some, back behind some cover, back to a safe distance, though we aren't about to take our eyes or ears off of what's happening with all that gasoline and fire. We want to see what's going to happen next and we want to see how damned hot the flames can get before we have to move back some more. It doesn't appear that the fire itself is what's been planned for the song, however. We think that singer/keyboardist Yuki Chikudate and guitarist/singer James Hanna have grander ideas. It's a song that sounds as if the idea is to take control of all lights, everything that produces or plays with light. It's like there's a hustle going on, a reclamation of or a heist of the sun, the moon, all of the chandeliers, all of the disco balls and mirrors, all of the flashlights and ocean surfaces, all of the campfires and candles. It's taking everything and throwing it into a bottomless sack. It's being done with no intention of using the light elsewhere. It's just a desire to control all of the light and to get it before anyone's wise to it. Chikudate and Hanna are good pursuers and users of light and we think that's why they want it. They find a way to make darkness into light, with Chikudate's cooing vocals, tucked into the swells of sound like wonderful little treasures. You can immediately understand the kinds of things that she can do with bits of moonlight or ribbons of sun, broken glass reflections of the tales that are sneaking out of the black abyss.
And I was like "Oh wait! (I haven't gotten the record listening yet though,) Liz has written the review then I also have read the review from my favorite mag, Vice Magazine as well. Those totally are like contrast! I mean completely opposite in between Liz and Vice review. Very interesting and I love both!"
So I do translate them all hopefully with TS's 2010 Daytrotter debut session as well as doing this jobs. *Probably I have to do the session translation and put on the other post ASAP, cause I already have so much sessions of my friends band or favorite bands.
Credit source: (*Sorry i lost the page of the list that I took..)
(*Well, I'm not gonna translate P4F's at this time. / P4Kでのレビューの転載・翻訳はめんどいので今はしません。あしからず。 画像拾いたかっただけです。。)
★Twin Sister / "Spain" (live at The L Mag's Sumerscreen 2011)
A new track off their new album "In Heaven"
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On VICE MAGAZINE Volume 18 Number 9 (*Sorry I couldn't even find the original review in the internet world so I write unofficially.) (Well, there's VICE mag.jp / VICEマガジンは日本でも健在でしょう！ね？)
The Original Review at VICE reviews: one of DON'Ts
If music in heaven sounds anything like an eighth-grade jazz band, I'll have no part in it. This reminds me of a girl named Emily who had a crush on me when we were teens. She was awkward and made poor style choices. She tried to kiss me once between classes in the hallway and I denied her. She's a major babe now and I bet she'd love this album. -- BILLY HUNTER
トゥイン・シスター（Twin Sister）のセカンドEP「カラー・ユア・ライフ」("Color Your Life")は２０１０年にインディー評論家やブロガーによって最も絶賛されたリリースの一つだった。そのEPから際立ったシングル「オール・アラウンド・アンド・アウェイ・ウィ・ゴー」（"All Around and Away We Go"）はひとつの転機のようで：２００８年の息を飲む様なエクスパリメンタル（実験的）なポップのミニマル（Minimal）であった「ヴァンパイアズ・ウィズ・ドリーミング・キッズ EP」（"Vampires with Dreaming Kids" EP）からの流れでもあり、新種の大きなディスコビートといったものとなっていた。このロングアイランド経由ブルックリン拠点のクィンテット （quintet - ４人組）はその流れと方向性を彼らの狂いに狂ったデビューフルレンスでも組んでいる。そして今作は２０１１年の虜作の一作となり：１０トラックのドリー ミーでグルーヴィでスパークしてて、それに小刻みなビートにスムースなドラムが加わり風変わりなHi-Fi Popとなっている。"Daniel"（「ダニエル」）から幕を開けるこのアルバムは ーーちかちか
Twin Sister's second EP, Color Your Life, was one of 2010's releases most praised releases by indie critics and bloggers. Stand-out single "All Around and Away We Go" seemed like a leap: from the breathy experimental pop of 2008's minimal Vampires with Dreaming Kids EP, to a new breed of bigger disco beats. The Brooklyn-via-Long Island quintet continue in that direction with their off-kilter debut full-length. And it's one of 2011's finest pop records: 10 tracks of dreamy, weirdo hi-fi pop that grooves, sparkles, and hums with clipped beats and smooth drums. It starts with "Daniel" — four minutes of shimmery lust and longing, where Andrea Estella's sultry Nico-reminiscent voice takes center stage over a minimal buzz of chirpy synths and avant-pop beats. Next, momentum builds on AM radio-ready "Stop," where Eric Cardona and Estrella share vocals, making for the best previously-unreleased track and potential second single. (The first single, "Bad Street," was an excellent introduction to In Heaven's synthy '80s pop side, though the record doesn't get that funky again.) Another gem is found in the slowed-down stoner dance-pop of "Space Babe," with its dramatic spaced-out back beat. "Kimmi in a Rice Field" is creepy and atmospheric, whereas "Luna's Theme" brings out Björk influences, starting with one drawn-out minute-long vocal phrase, eventually building into layers of vocals, drums, keys, and percussion. Long-time Twin Sister fans will be psyched to finally hear a proper recording of "Saturday, Sunday," a song about boredom and longing. Thus far, only a demo has been available, along with the 100-plus other demos the band has posted on their website over the past two years. That investment of time, energy, and thought is clear from the record's opening right through its finale — "Eastern Green" is explosive and minimal, triumphant and gleaming.
トゥイン・シスター（Twin Sister）のセカンドEP「カラー・ユア・ライフ」("Color Your Life")は２０１０年にインディー評論家やブロガーによって最も絶賛されたリリースの一つだった。そのEPから際立ったシングル「オール・アラウンド・アンド・アウェイ・ウィ・ゴー」（"All Around and Away We Go"）はひとつの転機のようで：２００８年の息を飲む様なエクスパリメンタル（実験的）なポップのミニマル（Minimal）であった「ヴァンパイアズ・ウィズ・ドリーミング・キッズ EP」（"Vampires with Dreaming Kids" EP）からの流れでもあり、新種の大きなディスコビートといったものとなっていた。このロングアイランド経由ブルックリン拠点のクィンテット（quintet - ４人組）はその流れと方向性を彼らの狂いに狂ったデビューフルレンスでも組んでいる。そして今作は２０１１年の虜作の一作となり：１０トラックのドリーミーでグルーヴィでスパークしてて、それに小刻みなビートにスムースなドラムが加わり風変わりなHi-Fi Popとなっている。"Daniel"（「ダニエル」）から幕を開けるこのアルバムは ーー まず４分の
＊すみません、中途半端に投げた状況でupしてまして。。。
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【本日の/Today's BGM selection】
★DOM / "I Wonder"
Live at LouFest in Forest Park, St. Louis (Aug/27th/2011)
On the introduction today, I won't say anything because it might be gonna be just a sort of additional post for ... Toro Y Moi & Ava Luna thing. BUT, it's probably wrong way to say out, even if you ever have experienced to seeing out Unknown's live music at any of theirs. But still, I won't say nothing about them, except I'd say "They're simply awesome. How? Simply they make happy singing with beats."
They are so young to be rocking new. Although it's not gonna be on the Daytrotter session;
★Unknown Mortal Orchestra / "How Can U Luv Me" live at SXSW2011
So the chance, I'm gonna translate the Phoenix article first for sure for start. Before do that get into this, really focused their interview in CA in July 2011. (Well funny thing is that you may realize during the interview you could hear YUCK playing behind it. haha!)
★UMO - Interview w/Arroz Y Frijoles Music - Visalia, CA July/28th/2011
★Ava Luna / "Cement Lunch" live at Kings Barcade, Raleigh, NC March 11th. 2011
（この辺も古い映像で、 現メンバーラインナップとも異なりますが、ええす。 ライブの定番tuneやと思います。既存作品に入ってないので、１１月だったから来年初頭だったか、、すみませんしっかり話聞いてたつもりがかなりうる覚えで苦笑、リリース予定のupcoming full albumに恐らく入るでしょう！一曲も。）
WHY THEM:Unknown Mortal Orchestra's just-dropped debut is a psych-rock document of indeterminate origin, its staticky melodies and short-wave bounce making it sound like an eight-track found in a sealed plastic bag dug up in the middle of the desert somewhere. And the band wanted it that way, shrouding themselves in mystery and anonymity as their star quickly rose in the blogosphere. But the power of their music, now that they are doing things like playing on stages and whatnot, is not diminished by the knowledge that they are a flesh-and-blood power trio led by the nimble-yet-elusive mind of one Ruban Nielson. Time will tell if the spotlight will wilt the mythology of the band's guarded-secret muse, but for now we can all bask in the glow of the archaeological find that is UMO's strange and bewildering musical gift.
（選抜理由：アンノウン・モータル・オーケストラのドロップされたばかりのデビュー盤は特定されることのないオリジナルのもとでのサイケ・ロックのカテゴライズされ、そのエレクトロニックなメロディーとショートウェイヴなバウンスによりサウンドメイキングは何処かの砂漠のど真ん中で発掘される結ばれて閉じたビニール袋の中にある“８トラック”のような音である。そしてこのバンドはそんな音を求めてもいるためか、彼ら自身をミステリアスで匿名性の中で覆い込み、例えば彼らの手早いスターローズ性はそんなブログ界隈、ブログスフィアの中でも存在を放っていた。しかし彼らの音楽の力には今、彼らが同行、いわば数々のステージの上で、そして何やかんや、そんなルバン・ニールセン（Ruban Nielsen - Vo/Gt of UMO）のいわば“動きが速くて尚追いつけない”思考によってリードされる“肉付きがよく血の気溢れる”パワートリオバンドとしての一般認識までをも減少されつつついる。やがて彼らに向けられるスポットライトがそんなバンドの守り神的なシークレットミューズみたいな（根拠のない世間の）神話をしぼませるだろうし、けれどそんな考古学的発見である進歩の中で僕らは、UMOの（許容範囲的な）ストレージによるよりワイルドになっていく音楽ギフトを、まるでひなたぼっこしながら観れている様である。）
ALSO CONSIDERED:Like our Ohio pick and Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, there was no competition here. （同時考察：この"BEST NEW BANDS in USA 2011"でのオハイオ州選抜（Cloud Nothings）や（ホッケーの）スタンリー杯ファイナルの７th戦のように、まったく（彼らの音楽に）不平不満はない。）
As "ALSO CONSIDERED" mentioning as the Ohio pick's Cloud Nothing's article is written by my friend one of pellies, Liz, and I have even translated Cloud Nothings' August 2011 Daytrotter debut session article (did it last month) in Japanese. You can take a look in Japanese if you wanna try try clouds! So and on, I may be gonna translate the Liz' Ohio pick article too when its time naturally comes. (Cause she wants me translate all of her articles! hahaha!)
僕らの予測では、Nielsonはこういう建物にある種の忠誠心を感じているんじゃないかって事だ。狼達が手がかりを無くした後、山腹でハイになる不可能性へ隔離されて、多分別世界の物のように見られながら、彼は感じた事を曲にするだろう。”UMO”に収録される楽曲には大量の逃げ道が含まれているように感じる。このアルバムは現代風インディーロックからエイセンズ風のものまで、かつて栄えたElephant Six Recording（Neutral Milk Hotelなどを輩出した）の作品や、MTVの”120Minutes”に出演したような良く分からない1990年代のグランジからPavementまであらゆるものを包括している。彼は自分の脳みそや耳、目を生きている内に無数の異なったものに浸し、明確な方向を決めずにはっきりしないままでいる。こんな作家の特異性がこのアルバムの中で響き渡っているのだ。彼は代わりに全部に手を突っ込んで、新しい世界を作り出した。
The polished, steel building on the cover of Unknown Mortal Orchestra's debut full-length album looks like a great place to hide stuff and people. It looks like a place where you'd go to woodshed, where you could just sever yourself off from the rest of the world and create your own bubbly place, insulated from everything that you didn't want to let in. The other day, I was watch shopping, looking to get a great, old-school looking Casio, with the tiny buttons and nothing at all fancy on it, just something that could keep time when I was or wasn't out running. The more time I spend looking at the photograph of this Frank Gehry-looking structure - maybe it is a Gehry or a poor man's Gehry - the more I believe that all of the Casio watches of the kind I wanted are housed inside that structure, possibly under glass, but definitely hoarded. It's fun imagining this building - out there in what looks to be a desolate stretch of land, at the time of the photo snapping, in the middle of a winter or just emerging from one - as the place where Unknown Mortal Orchestra mastermind Ruban Nielson and his crack squad of bizzaro, idiosyncratic popsmiths live and sleep. It's where they walk about wearing aluminum foil helmets and they believe all kinds of conspiracy theories. The out-sized antenna and satellite dish on the roof of the building beam in all of the essential transmissions they need from their home planet, a place where all songs are strange to the touch and sight, but ultimately filled with milk, honey, caramel and nougat. You see a strange place like this on the cover of an album, without getting any other back-story, just the accompanying music and you simply must infer some things. What we infer is that Nielson feels some kind of allegiance to the idea of a building like this - some seclusion, to the impossibility of being high on a mountainside, after the wolves had lost his scent, to being seen as something otherworldly maybe - and that he writes the way he feels. If feels as if there's a copious amount of getaway involved with the songs on the band's self-titled record, an album that covers all kinds of ground, from contemporary indie rock to that of the Athens, Georgia-based, once proud and thriving Elephant Six Recording Collective, to Pavement and obscure hints of 1990s grunge of the "120 Minutes" ilk. It rings with the peculiarities of a writer who has dipped his brain, ears and eyes into a myriad of different things in his lifetime and he's got no clear-cut direction, instead choosing to wade through it all to cook up this new variety of his mind's wanderings.
Japanese Alternative Rock now in Tokyo? Well, some of my friends do know I am a drummer in band and also song write. When I started to play drummer I was very lucky to meet the most favorite typed drummer to be familiar with. He used to be in a great Japanese rock band, broken up last year. I am fortunately still familiar with them and the bass player recently has mentioned about this Japanese band mainly play around "Shimokita" area in Tokyo! Howdy!
I honestly feel like my youth with guitar rock music used to have is come back to me whenever I listen to these Japanese rock music sound. But what about guitar sound effecting? It's good. Good.
Last nite we made tour last stop show for Vivian Girls w/ Wisdowspeak & Girlfriends of Bos though, our friend Antony made CYHSY's long awaited come back show at Paradise in Bos. 昨夜僕らはヴィヴィアン・ガールズのショウに行ったが故、見逃してたCYHSYの復活ツアーライヴを僕らの友人であるアントニーはヴィヴィアンもハシゴしつつ観に行っていた！ 観たかった！（フジロックで。だいぶ昔の話ですが。笑）
★Clap Your Say Hands Say Yeah / "Same Mistake" (live at Littlefield, Brooklyn, August 8th, 2011)
I found an awesome Generationals' music video today,
★Generationals / "Trust" (MV)
which is brilliantly nice, and my favorite label as well as twitter friends in Sendai, Japan is having Generationals to release their album in Japan, so in some points by the chance, I feel like it's not just through out to me. Because additionally the director of the video, Meghan Ellie Smith, who seems to be a real artist working in Brooklyn area now also made an unofficial video for GIVERS' "Noche, Nada" off their debut LP in 2011 "In Light."
Take a look at this brightness.
★GIVERS / "Noche, Nada" (Unofficial Music Video directed by ...)
& from the Daytrotter session, I should choose this song that I love.
"A General Feeling Of Seizing The Day, Go The Shining Faces" （「輝きに満ちた顔をぶれがやってくる、そんな日を捕まえるための感情は。（現在（いま）を楽しめ。）」）
1). 冬の月日がそうである様に、我々も少しずつでもより多くの若くハングリー精神に富んだバンド達のベストな（冬の蓄え期の？）不屈の精神や忍耐力で生まれたストーリーやスタジオワークの要素を掴みとり霜つかせないようするのであるが。この土地の冬周り（*この記事はDaytrotter創立者ショーンによるものなので、イリノイ州ロックアイランド）は特に、その感覚をあからさまなものとするし、それの速度はとっても早いし、その「蓄え」をより、そしていかに大事にして次のショウへ望もうとするのもまた、彼ら若いバンドたち自身でもある。それはまるで腹部に痛恨が見つかるようなものであり、GIVERS(ギヴァーズ)が二月の初めにこのロックアイランドへやって来た日はまさにそんな日で、まるで誰が一番耐え凌げるかなんてテストできるような日だった。それは更に夜通しの時間帯でその前夜には"母なる大地"がミッドイースト地帯にゆっくりとそしてじっくりと中指をたてるときのようなときで ーー バンドは真っ白いものばかりをかかえていて移動してきて、例え１０インチのフレークで我々がすでにピンと直立だっているその足の先までにかけて我々を呼吸困難にさせるようだ。ドクター・ドッグ（Dr.Dog）やザ・グローラーズ（the Growlers）といったGIVERSがオープナーとしてクリーヴランド（Cleaveland）でのショウでその夜を捧げた２バンドは、東海岸側からやって来てはいたが、ーー 実質、（ネブラスカ州の）オマハ（Omaha, Nebraska）からだが ーー それはパフォーマンスの為であったり、ただ邂逅とその別れを州ごとに繰り返して、全体的にそんな微妙さのなかに居るだけであったりする。だが、GIVERSという、ルイジアナ州はラッフェッテ（ラファイエット／Lafayette, Luisiana）出身の若いバンドは、カプリソーネ（英：Capri-sun／独逸：Capri-Sonne）やグッドタイムサマーフィーリング（good time summer feeling）や、ひっそりと隠し持ってるレゲエのグルーヴ感や、Ra Ra Riot（ラ・ラ・ライオット）の若き熱狂性に、貴方にもすぐさま舞い込んでくるほどのシンガロング（sing-along）センティメンタルさ、が、むしろその不格好さがこの日の9pmのセッションにマッチしてすらいた。彼らは東からドライヴしてきたのだが、それまでの一週間にNYC、フィアデルフィア、ワシントンDCを中心に起きた"スノーポカリプス"（Snowpocalypse = Snow+Apocalypse＝）と呼ばれていた「世界の終わりの様な大雪災害」がいかなるものだったか、グロッサリーストア（Grocery store = マーケット）のストックが細々となくなってゆくまで人々が買い続けるような状況下を過ごして来ていた。彼らはそんな機構の中でも運転してきて、でかくて分厚い馬引き車（牽引車）をヴァンで引いてきてて、そのヴァンはメインシンガーの一人の姉妹が運転して来てて、その姉妹は馬牧場で働いてるので、そりゃ田舎周りででかい動物達を運転して回るのなんてお手の物、という感じであった。凍ったり路面や雪の上ではそれも簡単ではなくて、それはもう一日朝から晩まで白い雪景色の中をとにかく懸命にやって来てくれたわけだ。彼らが我々のもとに居た間もなお、外の様子はどんどん悪くなる一方で、スノーフレークもどんどん激しくなってより深くなっていって、まるで彼らがクリーヴランドでの次のショウがあるなんてことを隠し込んでしまうようにしむけているみたいでもある。すべてはこの三つの州が「公共機関の消滅」なんて称号で呼ばれてしまって、ますます悪くなっていく印象ばかりの情報すら流れていた。彼らはその夜の為にただ明らかに準備させられ、次の日の為にただ引っ張られているようだった。我々はただ彼が早くやっていては、ブライトに輝きに満ちた顔ぶれで毛皮やタカのスウェットをまとってくると予想していたくらいだった。
1). It seems as if the winter months, when we're trying to do as little as possible because of the elements and a frostier than we'd like studio, produce the best stories of perseverance and fortitude of young and hungry bands. The winter around here makes it very obviously, very quickly, who wants it most and how important that next show is to them. It reveals the pangs in a belly and the day that GIVERS came to Rock Island in early February was one that could test the mettle of even the most determined person around. It was during the overnight hours the previous evening when Mother Nature gave the Midwest another middle finger in the form of a thick and slow-moving band of the white stuff, suffocating us all in something like 10 inches of flakes to go on top of the feet we already had. Dr. Dog and the Growlers, two bands GIVERS were going to be opening for in Cleveland the following night, were driving from the west - Omaha to be exact - to get here for a performance, encountering interstate closures and sketchy conditions the whole way. GIVERS, a young band from Lafayette, Louisiana, that combines a Capri-Sun, good-time summer feeling, some sneaky reggae grooves, the youthful exuberance of Ra Ra Riot and a sing-along sentiment that gets into you immediately, had even more ugliness to cut through to get here for a 9 a.m. session that day. They drove in from the east, having spent the past week inside the eye of what New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. weaklings were calling the Snowpocalypse and proceeding to buy grocery store shelves down to the crumbs. They drove through the conditions, pulling a big and clunky horse trailer, the van driving by one of the main singers' sister, who works on a horse farm and is used to driving the big animals around the country in the thing. On ice and snow, this cannot be easy, making for a white-knuckled day and night. Even while here, the outside conditions just got worse and worse, the snowflakes getting heavier and denser as they plotted out their travel attack to still make the next show in Cleveland. All kinds of calls were made to three different states' worth of Department of Transportations only to continue getting worse and worse information. They were prepared to just stick it out for the night, and then haul the next day. We're guessing they were early, likely with bright, shining faces and sweatshirts with wolves and hawks on them.
2). The music of GIVERS is steeped in this kind of attitude, of not getting chapped about little things or whatever cannot be controlled. There is an excitement that all five members have in what they're doing at the very moment that you encounter them that's contagious and you start believing that they're mighty conquerors, capable of nearly anything imaginable or unimaginable. There is positivity to GIVERS hooks - huge positivity - and you hear everything sung in explosive exalt, brightly delivered by five young people who know no other way to be. There is glee, overwhelming glee, in the songs on the bands only release - a short, self-titled EP - and it makes you feel as if time is on your side. It makes you feel as if you are somehow in control of how any of this shit is going to work out, in the end. They sing, "Don't get stuck in the meantime/There's no such thing as the meantime/It comes, it goes/It washes away," on their song "Meantime," and it seems to define carpe diem along with a brazen confidence that terrible driving conditions won't throw you and your horse trailer full of musical instruments, not to mention your van full of fragile people, into harm's way. It will be fine and the same goes for you.
（メーカー資料より） インディ･ポップの次世代アイコン？！2009年にアメリカ・ルイジアナで結成されたGivers!Two Door Cinema ClubやMumford & Sons、Phoenixなどの著名アーティストを数多く輩出した、世界最高のインディレーベルの名声を誇るGlassnote Recordsが最近契約を発表し、今インディ･ロック界で最も期待を寄せられているバンドといっても過言ではない。2011年3月のTIME誌では、SXSWでのベスト･アクト１０に見事その名を挙げられ、PASTE誌ではBest Of What's Nextの称号を獲得した。そんな彼らの期待の新アルバムが今夏に発売される。新たな旋風を確実に巻き起こしているGiversを見逃すな！ (taken words from HMV.co.jp)
Berklee grad musicians Madi Diaz & her musical partner
★"Let's Go" Live (Ten Out of Tenn Fall Tour @ Berklee Red Room Café 939 in Boston, MA on Sept. 29, 2009.) (http://youtu.be/8nU8v8_Kvo0)
So she's gonna come back to the place in Boston with her new EP. for then, I may be not gonna finish this article although within the the time of the Daytrotter article has been already done translating by Teshi.
Just copied and pasted the detail from the venue page:
Daphne Willis/Madi Diaz
Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
Everything Daphne Willis has done up to now in both her music and her life has led to this moment. Her latest album,Because I Can, marks the 23-year-old writer/singer/guitarist's artistic coming of age in thrilling-and at times heart-wrenching-fashion. This captivating LP represents an exponential leap, as she grows into her enormous talent and puts it to powerful and relatable use via her singular sensibility.Because I Cansounds very much like the defining work of a young artist who matters. Also featuring performances by Madi Diaz, Keegan Dewitt, and Megan McCormick.
ちなみに今回のこのブログ記事冒頭の"Let's Go"は９月２０日にリリースされるupcoming EP "Far From Things That We Know"に収録されつつ、２０１２年にはフルアルバムがリリースされる予定となっているそうです。
Kennyy as MELTRICK
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【Today's/本日のBGM selection】
its Giver's essay on Daytrotter might be also been taking a shit by Teshi... is probably here on:
このGIVERのセッション記事の翻訳も 以前Teshi氏によってされていたと思います。
well... that was my mis-guessing sorry. と思ったらされてませんでした。 (*ので、近々僕が自分でしますね。)
★Giver / "Noche Nada" (Unofficial)
Even GIVERS obviously one of current very taking eyes indie rookies in the US, though, my interesting is mainly focused on its unofficial video director Meghan Ellie... Brooklyn based real artist, whose you might be able to google her easily.
I found the Cloud Nothings' daytrotter debut session in August 2010 today. Which is making me so high. They make me high, and pop. Right? Suggestion as recommendation from my favorite online record store in Kawasaki Japan THE STONE RECORDS, I could have known Cloud Nothings via..., no! even before then I already knew them though (well, this is not focusing point yet), Bridgetown Records. BTWN LBL is such a great DIY sorted record label i really believe, and I have talked to the owner Kevin a while, especially whenever I ordered items, and he's such nice young guy, and musician. Cloud Nothings have couple of released from BTWN records, and one of them is split cd with Kevin which is my first item of theirs.
Definitely you don't wanna miss the shit of theirs!
My rate of the daytrotter session: ★★★★★★ (5.6 / 6 star)
独自ホニャク／Translation in Jpns:
"Cleveland Still Rocks Despite The Staggering Loss Of King James"
「クリーヴランドはまだ、
キング・ジェームスの 'よろめきの損失' に代わってロックしている。」
released Aug 5, 2010
Words by Sean Moeller Illustration by Johnnie Cluney Sound engineering by Mike Gentry Mastering by Sam Patlove Japanese Translation by @Kennyy_MELTRICK
＊楽曲のDiscographyはまた後日、お調べできればと。 M-2 from "Hey Cool Kid"(Lmt 2song 7" 2010) & "Turning On"(Debut AL 2009) M-3from"Turning On" M-4 from "Turning" & "Leave You Forever" (Lmt 4song 7" 2010) M-5 from "Leave You Forever" (the 7")
クラウド・ナッシングスの楽曲の一曲に「リーヴ・ユー・フォーエーバー（Leave You Forever）」という曲があって、まあ他の曲にもだけれど、根本的に若い愛やその喪失を歌っていて、でも彼らはそれを何かをなし得る為に深々とでも”ぼんやりと見過ごす空振り三振”みたいに表現しやがり、--- その何かってのはまた、それは強く縛り付けられているものみたいにさ。その曲は”can't let go”ソングで、お互いに別れた方がいいだろうことなんて解っているカップルのそんな気持ちには掘り下げないようにしている、なんて歌で、でもそれでもこのコーラス（オリジナルでは女性のコーラス部）は自然と染み入ってきて、曰く
It might just be selective reading, but over the span of the last two or three years, all of the literature that I've read about the city of Cleveland - a place that I've spent relatively no time whatsoever in - harps on the city and its peoples' defeatist or sad attitude. Most of this is focused at their notoriously lousy professional sports teams and many of these pieces of writing came from the pages of Sports Illustrated, but it's one of the only ways that I'm familiar with good old Cleveland. Recently, we all saw the venom fly and the depressed sorts make themselves known to those carrying video cameras looking for soundbites when LeBron James - the home son and some declared holy idol as a basketball player for the Cavaliers - bailed on all those poor people to live in Miami, Florida and play for the city's club, the Heat. Everyone was wrecked by this news, destroyed to think that everything was now even more ruined than it had been before. Suddenly, the Blublockers that everyone had been wearing, turning everything a happy shade of auburn - enhancing the greens in the lawns and trees and bringing smiles all around - weren't working any more. They three all of their mementos of the man-child into the garbage or lit them on fire in the bars and streets and ridded themselves of his memory, the traitor. The city is on crutches and one bet is that the members of the band Cloud Nothings also felt the sting of being left high-and-dry by the multi-millionaire dickhead - if only on principle alone. They might not be NBA fans, but what James did to their city defies interest. It transcends and crosses over into every inch of society, touching everyone who claims the place, even begrudgingly. Cloud Nothings might very well now be the pride and joy of this wobbly city, or they very well could be in due time, helping Clevelanders begin to forget that they no longer have a god. For, within the textures of most of the band's songs, we'll find some of the emotions and a belief system that residents of the town called upon when they were encouraged to justify the rage and betrayal that they felt when James cut town. The team's owner, Dan Gilbert, wrote what's now a famous open letter to James, calling him the ultimate quitter and despite any contrary feelings for where you call home, there's pride there and the Cloud Nothings' fellow people, their neighbors, were hurt considerably. One of the group's songs, "Leave You Forever," and others, are essentially about young love and alienation, but they carry with them the faint whiffs of standing to address something even deeper - something like the ties that bind. This song is a can't let go song, one that delves into the idea of a couple of people who may be better off breaking from each other, but then the chorus kicks in and the thought is, "I could never leave you forever." It's a strong thought and it's what gets most people into the trouble that they get into - sticking around and hanging on. It could be that James was right to get out, but no one can fess to that. Elsewhere in the session, the cool kids are getting our heroes down and elsewhere, on "Weird Sons," there's more instances of going against form and swimming into the current instead of just going along with whatever's easiest. The Cloud Nothings give us these wonderfully energetic and shambling indie rock notions that nothing's that easy to do. It's a pain to be yourself and to be true amongst all of the decay and all of the naysayers.
You can grab your copies of Cloud Nothings at THE STONE RECORDS in Japan or Brigdetown LBL in the US, but before to do that liking on facebook first maybe. I kinda like that they don't even probably have their official web site. You do see that means to.
Tracklist: 01 Honey Bunny 02 Alex 03 Die 04 Saying I Love You 05 My Ma 06 Vomit 07 Just a Song 08 Magic 09 Forgiveness 10 Love Like a River 11 Jamie Marie
Written by @Kenny_MELTRICK/@Kennyy_MELRICK on [(tue) Aug 23 2011]
#NP him, his solo one previous album "Trees Outside The Academy" (2007) and i like the song because its guest vocal Christina Carter's chorus, yes obviously.
なんだか、今、このサムストーンのソロアルバム聞いてますですです。 はい。コーラスがたまらんです。
★Thurston Moore / "Honest James" (Live in NY 2007)
I met a punk band consists a guy bass guitar player, a lady drummer and a female guitar vocalist in early this month in Cambridge. They are the Ettes who just released their new record couple days before the 3rd city Cambridge for their new record celebrating tour. Well, I'm kinda still suspecting what I had touched then, that night with the band and their friends to have sharing each stories for each others. Keep tuning for that, I will let announce when I'm done it on my English blog.
At this time, my twitter friend has translated the Ettes' daytrotter session article to Japanese, which is probably the Ettes' debut session at Daytrotter I think. We were sharing people. So to do that.
The Ettes / debut Daytrotter session"The Boot's Got The Upper Hand"
タイトルの意味/解釈は、いうなれば、
「そのブーツはこき下ろす武器にもなるだろう。」
みたいな感じでしょうか（笑）
Click the above draw going to Japanese Translation↑
"The Boot's Got The Upper Hand"
Session released on Jul 29, 2011
Words by Sean Moeller Illustration by Johnnie Cluney Recording engineered by Mike Gentry Japanese Translated by Teshi (@Teshi1988) on Saturday July 30th 2011
On/According to the last article post that I wrote yesterday, Dan Mangan's "Journal of A Narcoleptic" was my encounter song with him and I translated it in Japanese lately. Then found my old worked the other song of his called "Road Regrets" off the record called "Nice, Nice, Very Nice!" in 2009. I'm just reattaching that translation that I have done so far.
Hey real Bostonian music lovers! Her Grimes show with Born Gold (ex-Gobble Gobble) & Birthdays at Great Scott on March 26th, 2012, is already sold out!! I'm sorry if you missed the advance tix! Maybe go Craigslist!?
This my friends Streight Angular's latest 2011 5 song EP called "Everyone Is Syncopated" is one of my favorite 2011 master piece albums, and now it's reviewd on SHAKEFIST MAG!!
My friends Peter and Henry of The Milkman's Union from Portland, ME came back in Boston area in a month. Last time they made a Boston show was at Zuzu in December 2011. Two last time was at Lizard Lounge in Somerville, a tiny space venue in around Cambridge area which was their latest 7" single "Texas Hold Me" release show in Boston which I just couldn't make it the release party because they sold out!!! Good way. In a good way though. But this time the show at Radio that I could make most of the whole was for me good. Because except my purpose band, The Milkman's, all the bands I don't even know, which means new discovers. Discovering is always in the good way, right?
3). The Milkman's Union (Portland, ME) -- fb/twitter/bandcamp↓ one of my favorite song that probably they'd not played at the show! ★The Milkman's Union / "I Do Recall" (fr."Telos EP" Apr2011)
4). Glen Yoder (ex-Cassavettes/full band set) -- web/fb
Pix and reviews:
1). Ryan Lee Crosby (TBP!) *Sorry I missed to get anything, but could make a couple songs he played.
Looking at his website, he is a male singer song writer as well as an artist and a recording engineer. I like that multi-talent-iveness. And looking forward to get his show more and also his records. A point I might get into him at the first time is his voice and singing style. Even not sure that exactly we can say he's husky, but his is I guess. And it's in a good way in his taste of his music entirely. But I just could feel the point in live just a little. So getting more.
2). Mount Peru
MP review:
I just didn't know them before the show, but a research online before get the show depended on the RSVP page on facebook... I definitely like it. Especially the horn section in the regular four piece band sounds, like; guitar/vocal, guitar, bass guitar and drums plus keyboard/synth. So that I had expected they are much more "big band style" band, but not so much members in the band. However they sound nice. A main point I really was admired is that they looked really really enjoying to play around their sounds in each of them. As they mentioned during the set, they got a new drummer and just done of their upcoming new EP (which is releasing in March and having the release party! So definitely keep check it out!!), that's the reason they could be so enjoyable in the music on the stage. New venue, new place, new play, new music, and the new band (for me), new neighbor! ('Cause they're a somerville band, I'm a somervillian too! hahaha.)
TBC!
Mount Peru show video:
★Mount Peru / "" live at Radio
Mount Peru the show setlist: (*Not sure these are full name of the titles)
"Disaster Girl"
"Juliana"
"Saint Cloud"
"Riots"
"Kingdom"
"Hospital"
"Crooked"
"Jinx"
"Got Nuthin'"
"Lucinda"
The Milkman's Union:
TMsU review:
Full three some members set. It's my first time to see them as the full set, probably. But very first time was at SPACE in Portland, ME, they played in kinda backband of Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, when she kinda made a fight show with Astronautalis. (The review of the show in Portland that I made would be reviewed soon, but you can even see my lil part of it as teaser; a work of Astronautalis's debut Daytrotter session article Japanese translation here: )
TBC!
One off shot of Milkman's Union!
TMsU the show video: ★The Milkman's Union / "" live at Radio
The Milkman's Union the show setlist: (*Some are NOT full name of the titles)
"Dog"
"Texas Hold Me" (fr. "Texas Hold Me" 7"single)
"Lievtenant"
"Golden Room"
"St. Thom"
"Sailor Boy" (fr. "Telos EP" digital EP)
"Witness Trees" (*Brand new song!)
"Brooks"
"Devil"
"CC" (*not a whole title)
*I believe Most songs are unreleased?
And you don't probably want to miss this new video from the band!:
★Henry Jamiso of The Milkman's Union / "Bright and Future" (studio live)
Glenn Yoder (full band set):
GY review:
TBC! but the one video at the show. This is the last song they played "Pretty Little Girl."
GY show video: ★Genn Yoder / "Pretty Little Girl" live @Radio
Glenn Yoder setlist:
"Just Want You To Love Me"
"Okono Road"
"Younger Brother"
"Poverty"
"The Rain's Not Far Behind"
"On the Drag"
"Lorraine"
"Not the Man For You"
"Pretty Little Girl"
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【Today's BGM selection】
#NowListening to...
★The Love Language / "Nocturne" live at Slim's Raleigh May/3rd/2011
Their latest album "Goodbye Horses" is one of the "amaziest" staffs released in March of 2011. You can still grab your copy for "name your price" on their bandcamp, or get the physical copy at Kal Marks show, I believe for 7 bux.
☆Kal Marks / "Elizabeth" live at the Whitehaus Mar/5th/2011
**the song off the latest record "Goodbye Horses"
Also, I've been updated my MELTRICK's main website called "news/works" for while, and a part of it has recommendation page. I added Liz of Pellytwins' favorite band and at some her show before she brought, Camp Island. (and I've added many of my favorite undergrounds so far, yes.) I feel like I should connect between this English blo g's recommendation and the one soon.
And many things happening in 2012 too. Stay around. And I apologize that I have many mess-ups so far on this blog and all my webs. But happening new and old always for you.
Thanks,
Kennyy
as MELTRICK
Posted on [(Fri) Jan/6th/2011]
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【Today's BGM selections】
★Cloud Nothings / "I Apologize" (Audio)
Comes from one of my works;
Translating their Daytrotter debut session article in Japanese kinda officially.
Well, done, to be ended up this year? I'm so feeling grateful that I could have such many and preciously encounter within awesome people and things that we can have and share together for each other in the entirely 2011. And if it was still like... "unknownable" face to each others, that would be even okay to meet nicely up. However, I still also feel like that I have many things remained that even I'm crying for my too special experiences exchangeably not yet into my words enough.
I'm a little writer for music as much more as a messager of music. And last night at my favorite super tiny but super excellent record store where you can definitely find your own searches or discoveries in new for you, Weirdo Records I had been caught up with new experimental electro improv music band and a artist by really chance. Then the most point that I really could feel myself is that I ...
TBC!!!
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Show detail:
TBC!
Braids, one of the best new artist in this year 2011, from Montreal, Canada has made couple of tour shows in Boston so far in this year. Most of them I could've made but also most of them were completely sold out show therefore I couldn't. This time probably for the last show in Boston for them/us in 2011 was absolutely fantastic. The super fantastic lineup as well as in fact the show's everything like quality, atmosphere, and every single people include players at the show were perfect, except I hadn't much been able to talk to Braids enough. But that might be okay. Well, in this show of Braids, they play a brand new song first on their setlist, is, goes like this:
★Braids - "(Brand? new song)" live @GreatScott, Allston-MA [(Thu) Oct/20th/2011]
When I first saw this live video of SXSW2011 on youtube song called "Sweet 17" by a guy called Dirty Beaches, I was like, screwed out... (I'm not gonna say it Screw up though!) by how he made himself into his "Dirtyness" (dirtiness).
★Dirty Beaches / "Sweet 17" -- SXSW2011
the description with the video says;
"One-man dynamo Dirty Beaches brings his Sun Records via Suicide concoction 'Sweet 17' to our afternoon party with Hardly Art records + Art Fag Records."
And it's exactly same or on what I could get a feel of his show at Brighton Music Hall on Wednesday.
Pics at BMH!
Dirty Beaches (with his new band, kind of.)
more pics TBP!
and the article TBC ASAP!!
Edited on [(Thu) Sep/22nd/2011] [(Thu) Oct/6th/2011]
Hey there, lately I'm concentrating to heading up so much good shows in these streaming days in this fall but I also feel so much frustration of not being able to edit them well. And you might better see my updates blog page 【MELTRICK】NEWS/WORKSfor nowadays.
There mainly would be working on official Japanese translating of Daytrotter Session essay articles for my favorite bands and its sessions. Keep tuning on my page there and the others in English/Japanese as well. I have so much fun things editing out now.
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By the way, last night I headed to my Berklee musician's friends in their studio practice work. After the work, we had PadThai and talked about many music complexes. In one case, we talked about how Radiohead goes themselves. One of my great drummer friends Chikara Aoshima let me listen to his compositions. Which is amazingly fantastic. So here I am listing the tracks from the talk. Today I'm gonna write that's it though, the point, one of my point of view in my entire life is appealingly as quoted by myself as this:
My friend drummer Mr.Chikara Aoshima's tracks are how fantastic. You know what, I was sort of drummer/songwriter and then been realized that drummer's potentiality is not only percussioning but also beating, that's the thing drummer has. In which if they're composing.
★Radiohead / "There There" (Acoustic live) Song from their 6th album "Hail To The Thief" (20)
★Radiohead / "Nice Dream" (live Acoustic) Song from their 2nd album "The Bends" ()
★Radiohead / "Street Spirit" (Live Acoustic)
You might see those radioheads upon are sort of old shits in 90s. But we were 90s, I was 90s. And this my friend Chikara is also spent his life in a same era as me. Well, I sometimes am glad to share the feel on the same musical roots from each other lives, but that would be sometimes rarely unpleasant because if seeking new things for a life continuously, it couldn't be nicer that only looking back around but also only looking up. In the case, he's again rare.
★Chikara Aoshima / "Allting och lngeting" Swedish Lyric: Monne Music: Chikara Aoshima & Monne
In a tree that is withering away lives a shadow with a lonely past far away on a meadow far away on a meadow
What used to be resin Has now set to amber with an infinity inside without tears, without life
(If I left today, my body would reune with the place it ones new If I left today, the world would just be robbed of my point of view)
without tears, without life
(It doesn't mean anything)
All the words that've been spoken All the cards that have been laid down All the prairies that have been prayed All the miracles that have passed
It doesn't mean anything It is the most beautiful the saddest
All the tears that have gone All the seeds we've sown All the hate that's been laid down All the love that remains
It doesn't mean anything It is the saddest the most beautiful
Evening turns to night Night turns to morning Morning turns to day Day turns to evening
It doesn't mean anything
In a tree that is withering away lives a shadow with a lonely past far away on a meadow far away on a meadow with an infinity inside without tears, without life
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★Chikara Aoshima / "ねこ" ("Neko" (/ne' ko/) means "cat") ねこ by Chikara Aoshima
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It's even sung in Japanese but you'd feel it. He plays his drums on this track.
This is what I feel really lucky to have a big ...like stadium class rock concert that I rarely have in these years. Actually last year's summer I had been there at Bank of America Pavilion, where locates in sea side downtown of Boston, for seeing Ringo Starr. Yes, that Ringo, not Ringo Deathstarr yet. Even then, I was with two Japanese friends, not even mainly in pop music field musicians, Jazz Pianist and composer Takeshi Ohbayashi, and his music college friend in Japan, Violin player Tomo Akaboshi. It was also rare, wasn't it? But was one of my unforgettable memory in summer 2010.
So now, Broken Social Scene, one best my favorite band ever in the world, played for an hour set for TV on the Radio. I have stupidly missed their own album release tour show in Boston, I'm sure it was at House of Blues, honestly my disliked (or I would say, "un-liked") venue in Boston area.
By the way, here the thing:
Details:
TV on the Radio guest/ Broken Social Scene
"Just a few short months after their gig at the House of Blues, TV on the Radio are back for a big end-of-summer concert at the Pavilion." says The Boston Phoenix.
(Tue) September 6th. 2011 @Bank of America Pavilion at 19:00 -- 32 bux
i was supposed to be afraid being un-clearly purchaser onto the downing world by my own all suddenly and upon the new state came up from the time wasted also suddenly perchance but gradually in fact. Well, nothing had had that was able to say from the bottom then, even though never had listened to any music, my heart always must have, at that time to a while, accurately a week, because of my heart never willing really unusually. Finally i gotta go, go out to be pleasant that i can have something freshly. That was again, and of course, yes, it's music.
This 1st paragraph as an introduction is just my heart inside having emotionally in this week that I might be needed to take an explanation on something. That's it. I was at an venue where may be one of best venues now in Boston area, Brighton Music Hall, tonite. I would have some choices for weekend plan in this weekend and even weekdays as well, BUT it actually became a rare choice in my days lately that was going to non-Boston bands event in Boston. Which means majorly "the show" in local for me. It would be feeling like turning back to my starting point of music experience reversion. My purpose at the show was Porcelain Raft. He's unbelievably an opener position for Philly band The War on Drugs and the band might be as known as Kurt Vile's formerly band he partly played as a guitar player. On their current tour they're picking up a new brooklyn band Caveman as well as Porcelain Raft.
The Show Details following...
Date: (Sun) August/21st/2011 @Brighton Music Hall in Allston, MA. 10-12Bucks.
ACTS:
Porcelain Raft (fr. London, UK)
Caveman (fr. Brooklyn, NY)
The War On Drugs (Phillade)
Pics of the show that I shot, & my live reviews for each bands:
Hey folks, I really appreciate that some music lovers are sometime asking me like "Do you have your web site that I can see you pics/articles/reviews ?" or music lover bands "Can we see your pics/reviews/articles of ours on your site?" Those big questions for me are very welcome and like always being super appreciations from me. A tiny pure Japanese stranger writes all about music in English is all ways (always) feeling weirdo and like challenging, but the words that I have got in these days are special. Just so special. And honestly really frustrated that I could not have much energy and time to write and edit about what I have experienced with all music in these fucking awesome summer 2011 days. Well, I will do that soon, like in this weekend I swear.
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At this time, on this post, introducing and announcing that one of my friends band in Japan, used to work and live in Osaka currently works and lives in Tokyo called Kanina (means "rabbit" in Icelandic) is going to start a new UK tour which is second abroad tour in their own in next week, 15th of August, 2011. It's also a coupling tour Kanina and Bristol based 5-piece Shoegaze, Ambient, Post Rock band THIS IS MY NORMAL STATE. TIMNS has a Japanese vocalist and cellist Yuka Kurihara for the front woman.
Kanina × This Is My Normal State 2011 Summer Tour schedule:
They also has released the latest self-titled EP+demos on their bandcamp:
It's also for FREE. Must have it! 5 track album includes a couple songs from the first "Angel Falls ++ EP" and additionally 3 more tracks. They will have the physical cd + tour tee on the tour!
Hey you must grab the free EPs and follow their twitter or to like their fb additionally for the perfect!! TIMNS's front woman Yuja has just debut as a solo artist üka and released her debut solo album called "Lullaby for the Evil" via Japanese music label Kilk Records on August 17th.
*Click above picture to link over the label (in Jpn) site:
Well, yeah, I know, I'm sorry that I haven't found the way to get the album for international fans from Japan. That might be the point of. ＊＊Whenever I found it, then I will add the HOW for you!＊＊
★üka – "Inner Stream" (Official MV) (fr. AL "Lullaby for the Evil")
and some songs off the debut album streaming on her soundcloud:
★Kanina / "[a short story 2 #3]" @kouenji HIGH[blue noise test]2010.06.30
They, Japanese boy & girl consisting to play classical and postrock with "fantasic" approach sound band Kanina, has just reached their new tune released on their 2nd time abroad tour in 2011. The new song is for FREE. Just have your twitter account and log in to download it. New song called "forget me not"
A slight move away from Birthdays’ usual upbeat and colourful psychedelic electro pop, Pizza Baby sees the Boston group – centred around part-time Emily Reo drummer Sam Yager – edging into darker and more experimental brooding territory. Distorted and wobbling vocals screech in almost Connan Mockasin-style above bass-beats and all kind of electronic noises to wonderful, slightly spooky effect. With a full-length currently being recorded, keep your eyes peeled for more from these.
"The new Quilt tape rules & you can buy one now from Burger Records! They have an LP out on Mexican Summer this fall! O also they're play..."
Hey there folks! How exciting is this, you could probably imagine, if you haven't known about Boston/NY/New England's psychedelic pop trio QUILT, it's good to get them now. They will play and release new stuff which is included one previous digital single tunes on itself, and back to about the play, the show is tonight by 10pm at Middlesex Lounge in Central Cambridge for FREE or depending on your kindly donatings.
Oh I didn't remember that I have posted about this show before...
(Well, I might be tough because I will be heading to Streight Angular and some's show at PA Lounge in Somerville's union sq.... kekeke hard is hard apparently and physically hard at the same time, well simultaneously so.)
live at Dream Oven in Philly [road to sxsw] by TheBostonPhoenix
This song is included on the new tape. QUILT "Children Of Light" by lizpelly "Here's a new track by QUILT "Children Of The Light" from their new cassingle out on Burger Records." --- Liz Pelly
and this SA's new music video off their new same title EP is the coolest one of that have seen in these days.
★Streight Angular / "Everyone is Syncopated" (official MV)
http://www.streightangular.com
I still huge thank you for Al&Theresa:
Good to have a good nite tonite, either way!
Thanks, Pellytwins!
Kennyy
as MELTRICK
Edited on [(Wed) Aug/3rd/2011]
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【Today's BGM selection】
★Dum Dum Girls / "He Gets Me High" (MV)
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she is gonna be supporting DDG on this fall tour. can't wait it hun?
Our favorite cutie Japanese guy directly graduates from Berklee College of Music. So that last night at Lawrence and Alna Berk Hall "1140 (Eleven Fourteen)" Boylston Street was his last recital IN Berklee. He is going to be on vacation in some countries in EU, he really wants and really needs as well, after the every excellent works that he's done and doing for his final. You know, it must be doubt or if no doubt it should be a "kidding like crazy" of he has still like 10 tunes recording on a day in this weekend, like that. He's a hard worker unless if he's been recognized as only such a funny and
@Lawrence and Alma Berk Hall 1140 Boylston Street, Boston MA
Setlist & my review reports:
"Playground"
Part One : "TBA (Strings)"
(-I didn't even being able to see enough his playground pt.1 because we were little late to be the hall and people didn't tend to enter so stopped to listen carefully.)
I, or .. Japanese people, might be felt some tastes of Ghibli's soundtracking grounds on his composing or arrangement of the strings. This is how purely Japanimation's essence could be basically fascinating, on my foolish words, I could even say. But I can also say, I can obviously feel like it makes us to realize how we could come across our naked heart and sort of soul on his melodies running in a 15 minutes tune of his great work.
Part Two : "Song For Alan Smithee" *You can see the tune performance at BPC in April 2011.
This is a shit. Which means too awesome, too beautiful, too fantastic and too ... unexpectedly (or I wanted to make it as a new vocabulary as Unexpect"able"ly) exciting. It starts simply piano's
Here the thing that I have kinda started since this year 2011, since I finally started using Mac book to edit, to make list for best and worst on each months as monthly vest. And these are going to be more easier way to be collected BEST OF THE YEAR thing at last.
Basically this kinda special feature is starting on Japanese side of my blog:
NEW!! THE MONTHLY VEST : Works & Lives Feb2011 *Picked up by random as much as I could remember about in February 2011 And sorry about it just copied and pasted.
FINALLYYYY accomplished almost parts of the original japanese article, so you better see there. (Even in Japanese detail though)
1).Baths live at BrightonMusicHall on Feb 17th 2011 & DL album "Pop Music/False B-side"(2011)
Tunes from the AL... ★Baths / "Tatami" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_4tdEd40I&tracker=False
Full Body Anchor / "Drown Control" Gem Club / "Animals" Marc Pinansky / "Hear The Heathen" Mount Peru / "Summer Jinx" Walter Sickert & The Army Of Broken Toys / "Heroin Pig" You Can Be A Wesley / "Talking Science" and so more!!
BEST Radio Podcasts
"Beneath the Beat: Electronica" (An-G, Bendrix) / "Audio_012: Four Dub and Lounge Tracks Produced by Julia Messenger" (released April/05th/07)
KEXP Live Performance Podcast / Parts & Labor (Released November/28th/2008)
Worst Items
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【Today's BGM selection】
★おとぎ話 (Otogi banashi)(means "Fairy Tail") / "THANK YOU" (MV)
Little Dragon, Gothenburg of Sweden hometown an electronic soul synthpop band which is according to their facebook page basic info, consists Swedish-Japanese singer Yukimi Nagano and her close her high school friends boys for instrument players, formed in 1996!!? She has also musically worked as solo and couple groups. Woo! I had been felt like "they are pretty nice, yea," that was it. But finally this it a time to catch them up for my real. The studio live at Santa Monica College radio KCRW in California is just instantly getting me into their sound of talented performance. Can't get it out, cant get out from it till the end of the show. Soul music is not only for soulful people. For everyone that I can believe because of Little Dragon is sounded.
As some of you might be noticed I have created a new blog page on blogger for only my MELTRICK works updates. And also as many of you would know a great music streaming service site by completely the original own visions called DAYTROTTER which is mainly featuring world wide indie music. I have made some translations of their articles in Japanese sort of officially. And I suggest next my translation is gonna be Little Dragon's Daytrotter session.
独自翻訳/Translation「Little Dragon: Daytrotter Session on June2011 "Downtrodden And Still Dancing"」
Ohh my god!! It's been so long well... that's not fit to explain situation I wanted. Correctly I'd been really looking for the guy "MOON CLIMB THE WALL" (I might have even known his name of it though, I lost it.)
This guy was my first show that I had seen in this year, so in January 2011 at tiny lovely record store Weirdo Records in Central Cambridge.
Ohh thanks, JEFF of (Hunnie Bunnie and DOOMSTAR!).
(It's your man? haha)
... I have left a comment on their web site on the above link over there,
The guy Mark replied me. Wow a maze thread became through clearly! (I don't even know this explanation is clear.. haha. But there's such a idiom in Jpns.)
I didn't even know anything about EMA before gets seeing her playing on my eyes. Well only the things I ever knew about EMA then was a demo song someday before there existed on my itunes library without notice, and the herself image which is she's like shooting on a star onto her right side temple at everywhere you can see on... Oh that was wrong, that was just my mis-imagination of her album cover. This is correctly it!
Before putting this live review post of The Wooden Birds' coming back with new record show, even writing this out though, I have translated their Daytrotter debut session on May 2010 on my MELTRICK updates site and also I've created The Wooden Brids' SNS page in Japan.
The members of Austin indie outfit the Wooden Birds have been around. Lead singer Andrew Kenny is best known for fronting iconic slowcore outfit the American Analog Set (as well as collabs with Benjamin Gibbard and Broken Social Scene); and guitarists Matt Pond (Matt Pond PA) and Leslie Sisson (Western Keys) split their time between more than a few projects. Check out the fruits of their collective musical labor when they come together with the Okay Win. (http://thephoenix.com/boston/events/111641-wooden-birds-the-okay-win/)
date: (Tue) July/12th/2011
venue: Great Scott in Allsotn, MA
Price: 9 Bucks
My Reviews:
TBC!!!!
The iPod Pics:
The Okay Wins
The Wooden Birds
Merchandise table
A front man of The Okay Winds Stephen is really nice guy I met and have talked since the show and he told me that my ipod video their performance is their really brand new song they just wrote a day before the show night. They have even announced about that:
7/19/11 - It's been a little bit since our last update on here. If you want to keep up with our daily happenings, be sure to follow us on twitter or facebook. The links are provided on the "links" tab of this website. Anyways, it's been a fun summer for us so far. We had a a really amazing time as we opened for the wonderful Wooden Birds last week. Next week we will be performing a special stripped down set at the Hedge House in Plymouth, MA. It is Friday 7/29. It's Free. It's outdoors and literally right on the water. It's going to be pretty ideal. In even bigger news, we got invited to be a part of this years Kahbang Festival in Bangor, ME. We are honored. Also performing throughout the weekend will be My Morning Jacket, Lupe Fiasco, Surfer Blood, Grace Potter, and more. We'll be back with more updates soon. Have a few things up our sleeves and some ideas are brewing. In the mean time, check out this video of a brand new song that we played last week. A random fan happened to catch it. We wrote this song the night before and decided to give it a try.
昨夜のイヴェント・Little Miss Sunshineのライヴを念願かないの初見。１０代中期からずっとお世話になって通い続けたex-JunkBoxであるロケーションのPGに初めて足を踏み入れたわけでした。リトルミスのライヴ、むっちゃ良かった。大好きやなあ。cdも聞き込み... 05-21 13:28
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世の中のものやひとの価値って一体誰が、どのように決めつけているのでしょうかね。なんて、早朝からHydrant House Purport Rife On Sleepy (通称Sleepyでしたけ、)の"wonderlust EP"（たしか、オトトイさんのでしたけ、）を聞きな... 05-16 06:07
"Let's hang on to abandon. Let's hope we lose control. To be out in the open, baby. And let go of the rope. Nothing into nothing." #MattP... 05-18 20:36
これはたぶん、英語でいうところの「take it easy」というヤツです。はい。いや、はい（笑） 05-13 12:36
大丈夫、きちんと、our own wayで助け合ってもっといい術を見つけ出せていける。いい繋がりがひとつひとつ形になっているし、必要ないものは自然と離れていってあるべき形のままで伸びていける。年や時間を重ねるというのはこういう事だ。焦る事などないし。人生なんて無駄に長い、暇... 05-13 12:34
日本に居るととにかく疲れるし、胃が痛くなる。。けれど、合わせてメイクアップ（more like recovering everything surround me/us）する感じに素晴らしい出逢いや再会がmake it in a positive way...でも自分たち自... 05-13 12:30
EHP trains to DC to do some work on her section of a new PATB secret project. Trains are awesome and bins are big enough to hold cellos! #airplanesshouldlearnfromexample (Taken with instagram)
Series : Emily Peal 3rd Release? and her 1st full length album (2011)
Genre : Boston Quirk-Rock-SSW
My Rate: ★★★★☆+half star (4.7 /5)
My Thoughts: “”
(I started listening this album early July 2011 by cd.)
‘Emily’ is indeed my new favorite name of girl lately. This Emily who I met at some show in Cambridge in this past spring is seemed probably impossible or uneasy to catch herself or her musical core because of her new released album “Tunneling.” This 15 song album (oh you think it’s too full? No, not at all! You’ll see!) is art covered by … and it’s a symbol of what/where is this “Tunneling” to. You can see what I feel her difference between her new album and her so-far stuffs, if you want on her bandcamp. She
So shortly after I posted the short blerb about the new rock and riff duo Bass Drum of Death, I received a text from my good friend Carl (brain child of local Allston based trio Kal Marks) informing me that they’ll actually be playing with Bass Drum at Great Scott on June 23rd!
Series : “Curious George Goes to the Hospital” (1966)
Genre : Children’s literature
My Rate: ★★★★☆+half star (4.2/5)
My Thoughts:
”Oh Dear, Curious Dizzy at waving good-bye means see you later.”
There is a Japanese Free Magazine called “TAKARA” which means “Treasure” in Japanese in Boston, actually in Brookline MA. Last year’s end edition of the magazine had an article page about Boston Born Children’s Picture Books. That reminds me some point that I have been long time forgotten about. That was like a starting point reversion of my very early childhood. My mother really liked to read books for me when I was little. That probably has been my origin of a heart of artistic. So then, I tried to get it back as I tried to get this book which was also shown on the article of the TAKARA’s. What I wanted to review here is some nice phrases push up on.
“We call it the children’s ward” ”Would he get one too?”
“There will be lots of children to keep you company.”
“By the time the attendant came with the stretcher to wheel him to the operating room, …”
(Scenes in the playroom:)
“He climbed on the record player, .. go around and round…”
“Whoopee!”
“… George lost his balance and was sailing through the air… Luckily George landed on a soft cushion.”
“You’d better take a nap before lunch.”
….
So well, you do think it’s not just a review? Yes agree, it’s not.
But I think it’s even a basic… of human language. Or what I mean is children’s picture books like alway a opened door for the human world at the entrance. So if you wanted to recover yourself or reconsider yourself to turning back, it should be always there with you.
The author Mr. and Mrs Reys are originally from Germany but after their many moves, they are relocated in Cambridge MA. So their books ”Curious George’ series are usually featured as Boston Children’s Literature. And since before I came here in Boston, I have some rememberable memories with George. So that’s the point why I turned back to my childhood’s along the way to now.
☆MELTRICK Review Series 【EngReview “MELTREVIEW”】Vol.03
Artist: Frightened Rabitt (SELKARK, Scottland)
Second Album : “The Midnight Organ Fight” (2008)
Label : Fat Cat
My Rate: ★★★★☆+half star (4.5/5)
My Thoughts: ”The Story of the others or the yours”
In my opinion, this is obviously and apparently modern UK indie rock music. Wiki says also it’s an indie folk. Yes, that must be true. Folky, Rocky and hiding and seeking Emotionally. I also think it’s not so easy that there is NO trash tracks on entire album totally. This fact is indeed continuing with this band entirely, you probably could realize if listening and touching their next and latest third album “The Winter of Mixed Drinks” which released last year (2010). I have even only listened these two albums, those have amazingly the same musical quality, and they FRs never stabbed us indie fans, that’s because they ever have great skills of songwritting to appeal themselves. When I first listened to track-one The Modern Leper, that was my encounter with FR though, that was a great-once-shot for me. That was enough to love them to me. So reason I love them as much as I wanted to translate to my language to like…promote them in Japan too.
I think this review of mine is just like my own point of view. I have even missed a chance to see their performance in my city Boston, I have never been experienced their direct emphasis. Therefore this may be not enough right words for you. If so, you should try them for your primal.
☆MELTRICK Review Series 【EngReview “MELTREVIEW”】 Vol.02
Director: Sofia Coppola
“Somewhere” (2010)
Saw [(Thu) Jan/27th/2011] @Kendal sq Theater
My Rate: ★★★☆☆+half star (3.8/5)
My Thoughts:
“An imagination in Somewhere is NOT a reality in Anywhere (else.)”
I still remember that last time as last one when I saw S.Coppola’s film in theater was in Osaka, Jp where I used to live in. And it was with a affair girl of mine then. So many people there in theatre then, because of its “Marie Antoinette (Fall 2006).” By the way, this new “Somewhere” is, as every media or critics reviews, very tending to be showing gorgeous, and ‘Exquisite!’ But I think it’s Sofia’s one of the best arrival appearance as well. I mean, that gorgeousness only great movie making its fantasy has, is certainly in this movie too. But there would be also a simple and clean sadness or… like a transient twilight in surroundings too, as much in her cradles as Virgin Suicide, or Lost in translation. So the best. if in plain words, it might just be the brief best, because of too simple scenes. But that too simple is built by music, visuals, and especially acts and few lines. That must be enough for Sofia’s world making. So that’s why now I really want to see it again. Plain, but never be the somewhere else.
Detail/Review of the sites: Modern Jazz/Fusion, original compositions featuring an unique and sophisticated improvisational style on jazz violin. (cdbaby)
My Thought on Review: “Her First Exact Sounds Destination”
She is currently a NY based Jazz Violinist who is from Berklee College of Music in Boston. This her debut album is already released 2 years or more ago from now. But, is extraordinarily a great Contemporary Jazz Album for me. I think first that her violin sounds are just hopping on, (as good meaning as, of course!) and then melodies are massively formed the total sounds scale. Ensemble between every instruments and “A-hum” of their breaths are having live vibration. Especially form the first track “Enigmatic Vision,” there is enough groove that you could absolutely be entrusted yourself on.
So to speak,
This review might been a while of that I review artist or work by I experienced the live/performance first before I have experienced the artists’ works. So that, especially I could feel that the “live vibration” would be blotted on her record.
(It’s just my private side story though,) Plus, this might be that she is one of my musical friends who is also I could meet her via my roommate and Jazz pianist Takeshi Ohbayashi and also Jazz pinanist Yuki Shibata both from Beklee, and Tomoko and Yuki used be roommate each other and even nowadays frequently perform together, for example tiny cafe in Cambridge or restaurant very nice place for Jazz in Boston where I saw them together directly. And someday before, I have even seen Tomoko playing her violin with Guy Mendilow band on some Boston festival stage. That Guy’s music is like legendary folklore music based. I am very happy to see her constantly.
And this album is also been a while that I could get from the artist’s hand directly and get her autograph on it. hahaha.
I hope Tomoko will come in Japan again to make around her violin sounds too.
P.S.
For me, like Jazz kinds of music review was first time to write down.
That must be a genre still unclutivated field of huge music world that I can speak about, right now. So I still haven’t much musical knowledge of Jazz… I am afraid of.
Thanxxx,
Tomoko-san and you all.
Kennyy as MELTRICK
P.S. again:
This review based on my Japanese Review version of it which I used to write in Japanese on my Japanese blog exclusively.
今朝あんだけDanishのAFMの話してたのに、今日一日、BoAのBEST&USAばっか聴いてた。。（ついでに、ボアのお陰で久々にインスピレーションが沸いた。）と同時に奇しくも、今日は一段とUSAが嫌いになったっていうね。（苦笑）3 hours ago
BoAの”Love Letter”とか”Valenti~BEST&USA Vers.~”とか、驚く程歌詞に対するシンパシーが数ミリあるかないかくらいなのに、良い曲すぎてどうしようかと思った 。笑 ”Love Letter”レコ大２００７ 3 hours ago
（そいえばBoA、なんかの１０周年なんですっけ？）初期とか全盛期？の彼女のを、あまり知らないから、いわゆるインターナショナル盤の初期の母国盤のアルバムをそいえば、予約してたんだけどあれどうなったのだろうか。。ってきり忘れてた。3 hours ago 数年前に当時のボアの最新アルバムのリヴュー書いた覚えがあるので、それひっぱってきつつ、のこのBEST&USAのReviewも書きたい（笑）3 hours ago
<Vol.02> “An imagination in Somewhere is NOT a reality in Anywhere (else.)”
Director: Sofia Coppola
“Somewhere” (2010)
Saw [(Thu) Jan/27th/2011] @Kendal sq Theater
My Rate: ★★★☆☆+half star (3.8/5)
My Thoughts:
I still remember that last time as last one when I saw S.Coppola’s film in theater was in Osaka, Jp where I used to live in. And it was with a affair girl of mine then. So many people there in theatre then, because of its “Marie Antoinette (Fall 2006).” By the way, this new “Somewhere” is, as every media or critics reviews, very tending to be showing gorgeous, and ‘Exquisite!’ But I think it’s Sofia’s one of the best arrival appearance as well. I mean, that gorgeousness only great movie making its fantasy has, is certainly in this movie too. But there would be also a simple and clean sadness or… like a transient twilight in surroundings too, as much in her cradles as Virgin Suicide, or Lost in translation. So the best. if in plain words, it might just be the brief best, because of too simple scenes. But that too simple is built by music, visuals, and especially acts and few lines. That must be enough for Sofia’s world making. So that’s why now I really want to see it again. Plain, but never be the somewhere else.
この作品はこれを書いている時点でまだ日本公開していないので、ネタばれ方面は控えるが、ガーリームービー(Girly Movie)の第一人者としても最早確固たる地位を気づいてしまっているソフィアにとって、これまでのキャリアを総括したようなフィルムであったのは間違いない。Virgin SuicideやLost in Translationでの、悲しさや寂しさが美的なまでに表現を独特なテイストで見せてくれていた部分、マリー・アントワネットで極端なまでのカラフルさで彩る映像美と、そして、そう、定評のある音楽センス。何よりその独自のテイストの「隠し味」は多くを語らせようとしないのに見入ってしまうその”シンプルさ”ではないではなかろうか。
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<p>probably you don't even understand japanese but music huh? I knew, I'd known only music could be crossing all over everything in languages.</p>
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<p>being stuck physically + apparently here, but that's kinda not true. cuz I kinda need to re-plan my life with my new family. to be there..</p>
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<p>feels like I'm super stupid cuz taking shits very slowly but the others. but I also don't care, just do my own businesses believably.</p>
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get down, hoe down, swampy muggy evenings with a dash of tabasco and tobacco and that old pick up truck that barely runs. crack open a beer. kick your feet up. give in to the maniacally absurd.
Algunas cubiertas son memorables y otras no. Esta lo es. Akiko Yano se embutió en un mono de color naranja y levantó un delfín por detrás de la cabeza para la portada de su tercer disco, Iroha ni Konpeitou, publicado … Sigue leyendo →
Durante mucho tiempo creí a Sogo Ishii cuando decía que, antes de convertirse en el mejor cronista cinematográfico del punk nipón, había sido un músico terrible. Luego me di de bruces con esta línea de bajo. Navegando en el barco … Sigue leyendo →
No me he explayado mucho en el blog últimamente y lo siento. Aún sigo enredado en mis labores. Sólo quiero compartir lo que llevo escuchando todo el día. El productor tokiota Bugseed, visitante habitual de Soundcloud y otras nubes, nos … Sigue leyendo →
Japón sigue produciendo miles de bandas que tocan la guitarra como si el rock and roll no estuviera muerto. Muchas de ellas son demasiado sentimentales y demasiado juveniles para mi vicioso gusto y mi avanzada edad, aunque todas tienen el … Sigue leyendo →
Salyu lleva desde el año 2000 jugando al misterio con medio Japón. Siempre ha sido un interrogante, aunque ahora lo es un poco menos. Empezó enmascarada, bajo el álter ego de la cantante Lily Chou-Chou, también protagonista de la película Todo … Sigue leyendo →
Jonen es un monje budista a punto de perder la fe. La culpa la tiene la memoria. Sucede que antes de ser monje, Jonen había sido el líder de un salvaje grupo punk. Sucede también que fueron los excesos -las … Sigue leyendo →
En el principio estuvo el ritmo. Hay músicas diabólicas (la clásica es el mejor ejemplo) que no se pueden bailar ni casi disfrutar de pie. Tampoco el jazz es muy bailable: la danza a la que empuja requiere creatividad y, … Sigue leyendo →
El pasado 11 de enero hablé con Ángel Carmona sobre rock japonés en “Hoy empieza todo” de Radio 3. Un placer. Aquí puedes escuchar la entrevista. Filed under: japanese music, japón, música japonesa, musica, rock
Ya está aquí el nuevo ejemplar de la revista Eikyô. Son ya cuatro los números publicados y cuatro las estaciones. Eikyô se aproxima a Japón desde una perspectiva fresca y necesaria, distinta de la que ofrecen los productos otaku habituales: … Sigue leyendo →
Skillkills se tiran de cabeza a las simas del post-rock. Y no buscan a Radiohead ni a Animal Collective sino a Number Girl, padrinos a su vez de ese engendro fundamentalmente nipón llamado math rock. Así que Skillkills pertenecen a … Sigue leyendo →
