CHATMONCHY (Poprock) http://www.myspace.com/chatmonchy Chatmonchy are three girls from Japan who rock. Playing raw, energy-infused melodic rock music, Eriko (guitar and vocal), Akiko (bass), and Kumiko (drums) have been making a buzz all across Japan since their 2005 major label debut. Now, with their latest Oricon chart-topping album "Kokuhaku" (Confession), they're ready to infect North American fans with their catchy take on girl-rock power.
Chatmonchy - Sekai ga owaru yoru
Omodaka (Electro) http://www.fareastrecording.com/ Omodaka - Kyoteizinc (video mix) mp3 OMODAKA is a solo project of Soicchi Terada, a composer, arranger, and remixer who has been musically active since 1989. Terada studied computer science at the University of Electro-Communications, and it was while still in college that he launched his music career. He is also the founder of FarEast Recording, the label which releases all of OMODAKA’s music. He has been producing a wide variety of electro/techno music collaborated with other artists (some of them visual artists, not musicians). OMODAKA’s sound is characterized by the seamless mixture of Minyo. "KOKIRIKO BUSHI" , the collaborative work with a veteran Japanese traditional folk singer, Kanazawa Akiko, got over 750,000 views at YouTube from 2007 and it will knock over your existing image toward a music video by a beautiful trajectory.
Omodaka - kokiriko bushi
Red Bacteria Vacuum (PUNK) http://www.myspace.com/redbacteria Red Bacterial Vacuum was formed in Osaka in 1998. They live in Tokyo. They released their 2nd album Roller Coster from BENTEN USA i 2005 and went on the label's west coast tour with TsuShiMaMire and Amppez. In November 2007 they tour USA again including Japan Girls Nite at Bowery Ballroom in New York.
OKAMOTO'S (Rock) http://www.myspace.com/okamotos1969 Okamoto's - Run Run Run mp3 OKAMOTO’S are a four piece hailing from Shinjuku, Tokyo. They take their name, just as the Ramones did, with all four members having the same surname; Drums – Reiji Okamoto, Bass – Hama Okamoto, Guitar – Kouki Okamoto, Vox – Shou Okamoto (taking the surname from their favorite Avant Garde painter Tarou Okamato). At only 18 years old, this band is ready to fill the boots of the Ramones and become legends themselves.
March 21 (sun) New York @ Bowery Ballroom March 22 (Mon) Cambridge, MA @ T.T. The Bear's March 23 (Tue) CHICAGO @ Empty Bottle March 25 (Thu）SEATTLE @ High Dive March 26 (Fri) SF @ The Independent March 27 (Sat) LA @ Viper Room
OMODAKA (Sohichi Terada) released the remix EP for japanese old song Plum Song with techno sound on November last year. Plum Song is called in Japanese, "Umewa Saitaka" that has been sung under the name of "Hauta" by Geisha girls; traditional, female Japanese entertainers since Edo Jidai. He actually made a 21st centurys strange pruduct with old Japanese taste.
omodaka (far east recording) - plum song
animation dir. - teppei maki
#omodaka Omodaka is the name of the project developed through a trial and error process of mutational fusion of music and motion graphics. It will knock over your existing image toward a music video by a beautiful trajectory.
