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Kojima Mayumi live
Last night I went to Marquee Night vol.2, a live event held at Shibuya Club Quattro that was featuring Kojima Mayumi.
The event's DJ was Kaori (Dahlia), and the first part was Shōno Juri, who debuted last year as a major artist, she wasn't bad and reminded me of Orange Pekoe, though sounded a bit too mainstream for my taste.
Just about a week ago I wasn't too familiar with Kojima Mayumi, of who I think I only knew the 1999 single "fūsen" 
. But after listening to her latest album "Pablo no koibito" (English title "Sweetheart of Pablo") and singles collection "me and my monkey on the moon" , I knew over half of the songs that were played at the show. Mayumi was beautiful in a simple white dress, and her strong and assured singing voice transformed into a cute and shy one when speaking between the songs.
Her very talented support musicians were Tsukamoto Isao (guitar), Emerson Kitamura (Hammond organ) and Asa-chang (drums).
All through the show I was particularly amazed by the powerful bass line present even though no bass player was in sight, until someone from the audience asked who was playing the bass and Mayumi explained that it was Emerson playing it with the Hammond's pedals. I've never really seen a Hammond up close, but I was really impressed at how it took the place of everything else so well.
The show was great!
It was also nice to see Marquee's editor MMMatsumoto for the first time.
On my way back I picked up the latest issue (#47, pictured) which has a big feature on the latest capsule album "NEXUS-2060".
Posted on February 21, 2005 at 13:00 | Tweet
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I haven't met any japanese who are familiar with Mayumi Kojima surprisingly. I bought Me and My Monkey years ago and could not get those songs out of my head for days!! Even now if I listen to her songs it's there for the rest of the day. She's got quite a following with the Shimokitazawa crowd I think.
Posted by Roy on February 21, 2005 at 18:20
Same for me, even though I only gave "Me and My Monkey" one listen before the show, I strongly remembered several of the songs up to some lyrics.
Btw she announced last night that she'll be playing monthly at Quattro from May until August I think, and will share the stage with very interesting and surprising artists (that's all the info they would say for now).
I'd sure like to see her again some time.
Posted by Patrick on February 21, 2005 at 18:31
wow, sounds like a great show!
i always thought kojima mayumi should have been mentioned more on the p5ml, but she didn't come up very often for some reason. i have a bunch of her discs(including something that i think may be a singles comp bootleg). the releases that came out after me and my monkey on the moon never surfaced over here for some reason though. but some of her other stuff got an official release.
Posted by william on February 22, 2005 at 15:42
Yeah I agree that many would probably like her!
That's cool that some of her albums were released over there!
Posted by Patrick on February 23, 2005 at 00:13
now, that i think about it, one of her songs may have been used in a commercial here, but i'm not certain. the label that released her stuff here also released some orange pekoe here. i suspect that both were getting airplay on the radio as at least the orange pekoe release had comments from various djs saying how great it was.
Posted by william on February 25, 2005 at 01:38
i love u i am a great fan!!!!!
Posted by ismael on August 12, 2005 at 10:24
i've found this very old blog by searching "kojima mayumi" on google:0
i bought her "songs for gentlemen" live only recently. her freewheelin' style of singing really impressed me. it sounds so genuine, and sometimes humurously provocative.
and her speaking voice^^, so makes me smile everytime.
Posted by stain desuka on January 30, 2006 at 13:50
I also found this old blog, Ive recently discovered this artist, shes kinda hard to find ifo/images, etc. of
Posted by Max on April 29, 2006 at 12:26
Even though it's roughly 4 years from when it was originally posted it's still quite fresh in google. It would be a shame to let it disappear.
Posted by Darian Kamen on December 23, 2008 at 09:40