| 12:40am | Upcoming Magazine Features (Continue, Music Magazine) | | | | These are major publications for Kanno that are soon coming up, and most likely are for the concert publicity, but they seem to extend to more than that. I won’t be purchasing these magazines, and since they’re not as popular as Newtype or Animage, then we probably won’t chance upon... |
| 4:29pm | Space Bio Charge Official Lyrics | | | | Here they are, the lyrics that I know have not been published, or have some alterations in Space Bio Charge. If you are aware of some more lyrics that I should publish since they were previously unpublished, please inform me.笑ったwords: 岩里祐穂, 菅野よう子music & arrangement: 菅野よう子vocal:... |
| 11:28am | Space Bio Charge CD Packaging | | | | My copy arrived today, and I thought this would be interesting since I think only a few people got it.First up, the CD box came with a little Seatbelts sticker, and a white page announcing the 7/7 concert. The outer track list is a detachable sheet from the main box. Not to worry, since another |
| 1:05pm | New Sheryl Nome Song in Macross F Drama CD Nyan Dra 3 | | | | UPDATE: This is about the second time I’m hearing that there’s a new song in the Macross F movie trailer, and it seems like it’s this one! The first time I heard of this news was in 2ch, from people who claimed to have seen the trailer. But they didn’t name the song, so it |
| 12:40pm | A Little More Dose of 7/7 Despair | | | | delivered by a bunch of chicks. This is “Commanding Officer”And this is “Staff Officer”http://www.jvcmu sic.co.jp/seatbelts/qa.htmlQ8. Releasing a Live DVD is commonsensical, surely you know this? (37 years old, Industry Insider)(D)omestic (V)iolence (D)on’t. (Commanding... |
| 2:21am | Darker than Black Season 2? | | | | UPDATE: Yasushi Ishii is confirmed for the composer. I couldn’t see much about him except that he worked for Hellsing.Animage’s August 2009 issue says that Darker Than Black Ryuusei no Gemini (Meteor’s Gemini) will air on October 2009. On the lower right of the image is the staff list:Original... | | |
| 1:36pm | Sample Music from Kaze ni Mai Agaru Vinyl Sheet | | | | UPDATE: Some sample music (07 to 10 below) from episode 4 added. It’s natural that many pieces came from the episode, as one of the characters is a pianist from Vietnam. There’s also quite a bit of trivia for the pieces played:07 - This song is originally composed by a Vietnamese named Trịnh... |
| 4:32am | Space Bio Charge Debuts in Oricon Weekly Albums at #6 | | | | It dropped 3 spots from its debut in the dailies, which was anticipated as it didn’t have much promotional events to keep it afloat. Oh by the way, I saw this yesterday from 流狼 in YKFan, but I couldn’t find the source myself:I could not figure out what “No Gamers, No Life”... |
| 1:22pm | New 7/7 Concert PV | | | | MINOR UPDATE: So, I heard the tickets got sold out on the first day (which was today). This is depressing on so many levels.UPDATE: A new, more official PV has appeared in the Seatbelts website.Click the image to view the new PVclick the image to go to the videoDespite my disappointment regarding the... |
| 10:19am | Macross F, Kanno Official and Unofficial Music Sheets | | | | I have lost track of the many official and unofficial music sheets that were published starting from when Macross F aired, but here are some that have been mentioned in communities that I go to, so you guys might be interested with them too.Details:Product Name: Best Score Macross Frontier Band Score... | | |
| 2:55pm | Kanno Guests in J-Wave Platon | | | | UPDATE: Picture from the event added.click the image to go to the J-Wave WebsiteThank you for lance5 and ff for the recording!The j-wave website describes the program as:June 1 On Air (22:00~)Theme: Music JobTonight, our invited guest commentator is Yoko Kanno, who has composed music for artists such... |
| 9:58am | Anison Nodo Jiman + Various Macross F Fan Works! | | | | Last May 3, “Anison Nodo Jiman (Anime Song Singing Voice Pride)” aired in NHK with the elimination round to what looks like an anime singing contest. The contestants sang their choice anime song, and are sometimes with costumes reminiscent of a character in the show. Here’s the list... |
| 2:53am | Kaze ni Mai Agaru Vinyl Sheet PV | | | | click the image to watch the PVThe PV of the NHK drama series “Kaze ni Mai Agaru Vinyl Sheet” has a snippet of the theme song “i say yes”. It looks like a drama between a Japanese girl and a UNHCR volunteer. The theme song is a slow jazzy piece with Akira Fuse crooning for |
| 1:36am | Space Bio Charge Track Lengths, Review | | | | UPDATE: Review finished. Samples of the songs, and what looks like a rushed TV spot CM, are available in the Victor Website.Review: Kanno described this set of CDs as “Dramatic”, “Inner”, and “Private”. The “Dramatic” CD, or CD 1 contains mostly orchestra... |
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