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I have a lot of sentiment for this An Cafe song due to it being my favourite opening theme to Darker than Black (which is also one of my favourite anime), but I never actually knew what the band looked like... This is not how I imagined it. :wahaha:

 

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43 minutes ago, adamstan said:

Nice (even if simple) playing, however I'm not big fan of that singing style ;) But overally nice song.

It's pretty fitting for American folk though. :D I actually like it myself, but there's also the fact this recording is from 2013, when she was just 17. She refined her singing a bit since then. :)

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25 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

It's pretty fitting for American folk though. :D

Yeah, that might be. Now that you say it, I guess that was my main problem with it - she sounded too American for my taste :D

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10 minutes ago, adamstan said:

It indeed is :D But the video is really bizarre - as were many of 80's MVs actually ;)

Indeed, although people say it's based on her personal trauma of working as a waitress and getting an intestinal disease out of stress. So it's symbolic. Some of it at least. Not sure about the closeup at the very beginning, but the rest... :D

  • 3 weeks later...
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I was looking for a good live performance of this song and well... Considering how Shizuka Kudo was singing at the beginning of her career, it wasn't easy. :wahaha: But finally, I found this one in which she seems to be slightly older and the difference is pretty significant. ^^

 

  • 3 weeks later...
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I just randomly reminded myself that Kana Hanazawa is a proper singer outside of her Seiyuu work and discovered most of her stuff is on Spotify... With like 0 replays, so probably uploaded recently. Pretty cool songs, if you can get over her cutesy style of singing. :3

 

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Edit: I don't even feel justified making another post in this thread considering how much I spammed it for the past months, but can't help but share this one. My inner fanboy told me so. :3

 

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So now it's my turn ;)

I heard this song on a japanese local radio today, and for some reasons it really moved me:

The girl who made this song, Youko Matsuura, seems to be rather unknown, she doesn't have any records released, just couple YT vids with a few hundred viewers. And now she seems to be doing similar thing to me, namely recording cover songs in her home and posting them on YT ;)

And I'm really tempted to do a cover of the above song...

Speaking of which, a few weeks ago I did a cover of Anri Kumaki's song. It was my first attempt at singing in Japanese. Please forgive me for posting it here as well, but maybe someone will find it nice ;)

 

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On 23.04.2020 at 4:53 PM, adamstan said:

The girl who made this song, Youko Matsuura, seems to be rather unknown, she doesn't have any records released,

I looked a bit more at her page, and it turns out she has some CDs, but it looks like they're self-published, and she sells/sold them only at her live shows, and a few shops/places she's friends with. So for me they're impossible to get :(

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The same day I heard Yoko Matsuura, I've also heard this:

Guess kind of humble beginnings of eurobeat ;) This song is a funny case. It's a cover of italo disco song. Actually, UK made one. So, I guess, euro-disco then? Nevertheless, original was this:

And it's interesting, because lyrics are completely different (it isn't the translation of Angie Gold's version), making them effectively different songs sharing the same melody. English song is angry, breakup/revenge song, while Japanese version is very lighthearted, with girl hunting at the disco for her "cinderella boy" ;) What's more, Yoko Oginome release also english version, which is the translation of JP one.

I have to say - I prefer both covers than the original :)

(for some reasons the embedding seems to be temporarily broken...)

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7 hours ago, adamstan said:

I looked a bit more at her page, and it turns out she has some CDs, but it looks like they're self-published, and she sells/sold them only at her live shows, and a few shops/places she's friends with. So for me they're impossible to get :(

Maybe she'll make a big label debut one day and get this stuff made in mass, let's have hope. ;) I won't comment on your multi-instrumentalist cover cause that makes me aware of my lack of musical talent too much. :P

In other news, I'm recently getting more and more enamoured with the Japanese alt. rock scene. There's such an awesome chill factor to this music, they really work well as ambient music when I'm working of doing random stuff on the net. I kind of feel that Western rock rarely goes for this kind of harmonious feel. :)

 

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