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humming is coming 3: report
On Saturday my friend Miwa and I went to Shibuya Cyclone mainly to see solange et delphine in their new incarnation. They usually always perform as a jazz combo with live piano, drums, wood bass and violin, but this time they were a trio with a pre-recorded house backtrack. Hase-san, who usually plays piano, instead strummed an electric guitar or sometimes just danced. They also had a secret weapon 3rd member, Yoshida Tetsuto (Readymade, Hair, Fantastic Explosion, Orangers, Sports Cut, 8-bits, etc.), who did the DJ and also played some samplers and a theremin!
Singer Yumi was beautiful as usual and the unit as a whole seemed to be glittering, or maybe it was Hase-san's LED marquee display on his white polo shirt always scrolling "SOLANGE ET DELPHINE".
They played five of their most recent songs, all in new arrangements with house beats. While this may sound like a popular girl-boy unit, their arrangements do have real strings and also all vocals were live (no lip-sync here). And let's not forget Yoshida-san, after all this is a trio, who surely broke all Pizzicato Five records of number of times the "A new stereophonic..." and "This recording..." samples can be played within 30 minutes. Indeed he kept hitting those sampler buttons until we were all close to crying from laughter.
The rest of the evening was a bit on a different note, with guitar pop bands, none of which I had heard before. They were all pretty good though. I was impressed with all the good vocals, in particular ghq (who I often couldn't tell what language the singer was using, though). Caraway, a side-project of Swinging Popsicle's guitarist, played without their keyboardist. They had good songs and their girl drummer was great. And last was the event's organizers, humming parlour, again guitar pop but with quite distinctive vocals, maybe reminding of Yano Akiko. The lead singer sometimes played pianica or a synth.
From left to right: ghq, the Caraway, humming parlour
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Posted on September 3, 2007 at 20:51 | Tweet
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Great review! And it was nice to meet you at the event. I'd like to see Solange et Delphine again.
The drummer of Caraway, by the way, plays for a band called Gomes the Hitman. Really a quite talented person.
I did a brief review too, mainly because I liked a couple of the photos I took: http://japanlive.blogspot.com/2007/09/humming-parlour-event-at-cyclone.html
Take care!
Posted by Ken on September 5, 2007 at 00:19
It was very nice to meet you too! I'll be looking forward to run into you again at some other event.
Nice write-up! Thanks for the info about Gomes the Hitman, I'll check that out!
Posted by Patrick on September 5, 2007 at 00:32