July 21, 2008 - Ten Years Techno! JapanFiles.com welcomes HIMAWARI this week.
10 year techno veterans HIMAWARI debut on JapanFiles.com this week with their two CDs "Mineral" (2001) and "Pomposo" (2005).
Formed in 1998 in New York City (and currently now based in Tokyo), HIMAWARI is Takeshi Ichikawa and Lena. They originally met at a Ryuichi Sakamoto event in the city and quickly realized they shared a similar vision for music making.
While based in NYC, HIMAWARI performed regularly at club events in the metro area, and large-scale loft parties in Brooklyn with as many as 3,000 attendees. HIMA also played such events as the CMJ Music Marathon, and were regulars in the Moby VJ Team MOVEMENT events.
Working closely with long time engineer Kidoh Taki, HIMAWARI completed production on their second album "Pomposo" in 2005, with CD jacket design by Virgilio Santos of Dzark. HIMAWARI's live performances feature cutting edge new digital images and Takeshi Ichikawa's motion graphics.
HIMAWARI links!
HIMAWARI MP3s - http://www.japanfiles.com/himawari
HIMAWARI Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djEDcB9BcCA
HIMAWARI Official Website - http://himawaring.com
Yup, I posted something. Fooel is actually out doing the hard work of going to gigs, listening to albums and writing about them, while I sit on my substantial backside cutting and pasting press releases. It is at least a start. My excuse is that I'm back in dear old Britain which is probably not the best location for someone contributing to a blog called Tokyo Music. We'll work that out later....
Anyway, with Fooel in Tokyo and me in my secret lair it's fair to say that Tokyo Music is back. Hell, I may even try and write a review. Don't go away...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
HIMAWARI on JapanFiles
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Falsies on Heat back on JapanFiles
Tired and pissed off with heat and humidity so lazy cut and paste:
FALSIES ARE BACK!!!
JAPANESE FEMALE PUNKERS FALSIES ON HEAT RETURN TO JAPANFILES.COM
August 1, 2007 – After a brief absence from the JapanFiles.com roster, Falsies on Heat returns to JapanFiles.com thanks to a new partnership with the band's current label Sputnik Lab.
Falsies on Heat was nominated for Best Japanese All-Girl Band in Shojo Beat's 2007 Music Issue.
Recommended tracks: Groovy, Fat, Aphrodite.
Listen here.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Free Swinging Popsicle
No, it's not a campaign for the release of an innocent frozen snack with dubious sexual proclivities, but rather free music. Over the next three days, three different tracks will be available for free download here (it's a MySpace page, not a link to some spammer hawking Viagra and methods of increasing whanger size). The three songs are taken from the band's new album, Go On.
