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dimanche 14 juin 2009

Asa Chang & Junray

Asa Chang & Junray is the band of the Japanese percussionist Asa Chang, who was the founder and original bandmaster of Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. After leaving that group in 1993, he formed Asa Chang & Junray in 1998 with programmer and guitarist Hidehiko Urayama. They were joined in 2000 by tabla player U-zhaan. Live, the group use a portable soundsystem called 'Jun-Ray Tronics', hence the name — although the word 'junray' also means 'pilgrimage'.

In 2002, the British label The Leaf Label released Jun Ray Song Chang, which compiled the group's first two, Japan-only albums. It was followed a year later by the mini album, Tsu Gi Ne Pu. The group's song 'Hana' was featured on Fabric Live 07, while 'Tsu Gi Ne Pu' was included on a The Wire Tapper CD. The group's most recent album, 2005's Minna no Junray, featured vocals by singer and actress Kyōko Koizumi. It has not been released overseas. [wikipedia]



Asa Chang + Junray - Hana

mardi 9 décembre 2008

dimanche 26 octobre 2008

Pink Lady

Pink Lady (ピンク・レディー, Pinku Redī?) was a Japanese female pop music duo of the late 1970s and early 1980s, featuring Mitsuyo Nemoto ("Mie") and Keiko Masuda ("Kei"). In Japan, they are fondly remembered for the incredible run of pop-chart hits they enjoyed from roughly 1976 to 1979, but in the United States, they are best known for their infamously failed 1980 NBC-TV variety show, Pink Lady and Jeff. [wikipedia]



Pink Lady - Chameleon Army (1978)


Pink Lady - Monster (1978)

dimanche 4 mai 2008

boy Kenyan (1960)

PLASTICS - COPY


On this date in 1979, Plastics released their debut U.K. single, "Copy". It was backed by "Robot". Both tracks appeared on their debut album, Welcome Plastics. The Japanese new wave band were done by 1982.



P-MODEL - Speed Tube

samedi 23 février 2008

Papy Mix Février : Japan Sixties

Playlist : Ecouter


Emi Jackson - Koi No Angelfish (The Angelfish of Love)
Emi Jackson - Namida No GoGo (GoGo of Tears)
Flower Travelling Band and Terumasa Hino Quartet - Doob
Hajime Kaidou - Snacky De Odorou
Jackie Yoshikawa And Blue Comets - Psychedelic Man
Jackie Yoshikawa and Blue Comets - Taiyou No Musume (Daughter of the Sun)
Mayuzumi Jun and the ox - black room
The Dynamites - Koiwa Mo Takusan
The Mammies - Futari no Boogaloo
The Mojo - Crazy Midnight
The Mops - Bera Yo Isoge
The Mops - I Can t Wait
The Mops - San Franciscan Night
The Silvy Fox - Kaza ga Saratta Koibito
The Spiders - Go Go
The Spiders - Hey Boy
The Taxman - Koi Yo Koi Yo Koi Yo [Love Love Love]

dimanche 17 février 2008

Flower Travellin' Band

Flower Travellin' Band were an esoteric Japanese psychedelic rock/ heavy metal outfit active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, consisting of Akira "Joe" Yamanaka (vocals), Hideki Ishima (guitar), Joji "George" Wada (drums) and Jun Kozuki (bass).
The band was initially organized by Japanese entertainer and entrepreneur Yuya Uchida as "The Flowers," a cover band, and featured two vocalists - male vocalist Yuya Uchida, and female vocalist Remi Aso, who was touted as the Japanese version of Janis Joplin. Their first album consisted of covers of Western pop songs. It was primarily notable for the fact that all of the band members appeared nude on the cover, including Aso, which was considered scandalous at the time.

However, after the "Flowers" album, Uchida lost interest and Aso drifted away. The remaining members reorganized themselves, acquiring Joe Yamanaka as a vocalist on the recommendation of Uchida, and proceeded to explore a more original and rock-oriented direction.

In early 1973, they were billed to open for the Rolling Stones, but Mick Jagger's visa was rejected from a previous drug conviction and all concerts were cancelled. Later that year the band broke up, with Yamanaka going on to release solo albums in styles varying from David Bowie-styled glam rock to roots reggae.
Guitarist Hideki Ishima released a solo album, One Day, in 1973, and continued a career as a studio musician, guesting on several of Yamanaka's solo albums. Ishima is still active in the music scene in Japan, and specializes in playing the "sitarla," an instrument he designed. The sitarla apparently combines the qualities of a solidbody electric guitar and the sitar... [wikipedia]