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FOGA
Whew, I was close to not being able to get a copy of FOGA's first CD single.
FOGA (also the name of a Swedish furniture maker) is MATSUDA "Chabe" Gakuji (Cubismo Grafico)'s new solo unit. According to Escalator's Web site, with the new year beginning he felt like starting something new.
The release date was today, and since usually in Japan CDs tend to be on the shelves a day early, I went to look for it yesterday but it was nowhere to be found at Tower Records and HMV in Shinjuku. Today I was checking their Web sites' and HMV had removed the listing completely while Tower had put up a notice saying that it would take 4-6 weeks. Usually Escalator's releases are well distributed so I thought something was up.
So today I emailed Escalator Shop and asked them to put aside a copy for me if there were still any, and I got a reply saying that my copy was safe. So tonight I went to Escalator Shop in Harajuku, and as I was paying for my copy, the girl at the counter told me with a low voice "I think there's no more at all!".
There was another client, who was already there when I arrived, looking around the shop and apparently waiting for an answer, the clerk then talked on the phone briefly and went to the client to apologize.
So I think that was it, I got one of the last copies! I'm glad I thought of emailing today otherwise I'd have had no luck.
The single is pretty good and includes two tracks, both are quasi-instrumental. "Sunday Nite Club" is electro/disco/house with Chabe singing with a very distorted voice, and "Real Rock Plantation Dub" is electro/dub/disco/breaks with some reggae feel. Chabe said on his diary that he wrote nearly enough songs to release an album and that they will be released little by little.
If you're looking for a copy, all is probably not lost because there should be some more available later I guess (maybe not the limited edition spray-painted jacket though), and also there's a 12" edition planned for early April.
Posted on March 24, 2004 at 21:27 | Tweet
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yao! you know more about Swedish Furiture Makers than I do!! :)
by the way: check out my new project over at: www.tsig.se - I might put up a parallell blog or something Gothenburg vs Tokyo... So if you in for it?
/J
Posted by Jesper on March 25, 2004 at 01:38
Actually it's your pal Chabe who pointed it out in his diary. :) He said that he only found out long after coming up with the name though!
Very nice site at tsig.se! (You need to put <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> on your pages for accents to look right here.) I was expecting Mario to come out. :)
Maybe I'd be in it for the blog! It depends what it involves me in though. :)
Posted by Patrick on March 25, 2004 at 07:55
It might be a silly idea but "foga" is also an italian word meaning "fougue" or "ardeur" in french or "ardour" and "heat" in english !
Posted by Mauro on March 25, 2004 at 21:09
Weird! :)
I wonder where he picked that name!
Posted by Patrick on March 25, 2004 at 23:47