Blog - arcorhyme afternoon live at Grand Cru (vol.5): report
arcorhyme afternoon live at Grand Cru (vol.5): report
Yesterday was the 5th monthly arcorhyme lunch time show at Shibuya's Après-midi Grand Cru. I went there with friends Miwa and Naoto who were also there last month. I had some French duck pennette, delicious!
Takanami K-tarō and Nishimura Ikuyo were this time accompanied by Sally Kubota (Sally Soul Stew, Les 5-4-3-2-1, Phantom Gift) and also the young Karibu-kun on percussions. That made for a great plugged set, with electric guitar and bass. Sally of course played his trademark Rickenbacker bass with the coiled white cord, and he wore checked pants. This time, the band had many requests to fulfill, so most of the songs played were not their own. There were a lot of great selections though, so we were treated to two really awesome sets!
Set #1 (from 13:00): arcorhyme's aoi neko / Giniro Natsuo's kanashii kotori / Yuming's mahō no kagami / Hirayama Miki's manatsu no dekigoto / Candies' shochū omimai mōshiagemasu
The first set included "manatsu no dekigoto" that I got to know and love thanks to the recent Tsutsumi Kyōhei remix album on which it's remixed by Halfby. I also knew the Candies song, and Ikuyo did a great job at singing it!
Set #2 (from 14:00): aoi neko / Ohta Hiromi's momen no Hankerchief / Yuming's ichigo hakusho o mō ichido / Les 5-4-3-2-1's Miracle Manège (aka Le manège magique) / arcorhyme's koi no jigoku
The 2nd set had Sally Kubota in the spotlight for the last 2 songs! First there was my request of Les 5's "Le manège magique" (I always only remembered Les 5's songs by their French titles)! I had heard it live last year at the Sally Soul Stew show, but here it was performed not in the slower version but in Les 5's original upbeat version! That was... awesome! Sally's bass skills also really showed on this song that he knows better than anyone.
The last song was also very special, as it was I think the first time I heard it played live. This song from "Soundmatic Brain" features Sally on the album. Ikuyo presented him as "the only one who can play this song" and he was like "uhh?", but soon he was playing his fast and groovy bass line, and reminding me that no one could replace Sally Kubota. :)
There were some interesting announcements too! Sally is making the music for a movie coming next November, titled "GS Wonderland" (his whole career is wrapped around GS after all), and if I heard right K-tarō has helped too. And also, these two are preparing a show for September (7th?), it will be a sort of copy band (of a band I didn't know)... stay tuned (agenda blog) for details when available!
Upon leaving, I had a look at the Takanami Records box to see if there was anything for me, and there was! I found Shōnentai's "ABC", that I also knew from "Kyōhei Disco Night" (remixed by Konishi Yasuharu), I had been looking for the original ever since. And I also picked up a C-C-B single titled "Lucky Chance o mō ichido". Great deal at ¥300 each. Coincidentally all 4 songs on these 2 singles were written by Tsutsumi Kyōhei.
There will be no August edition of this free afternoon show, but hopefully it will be back in September. Stay tuned (over at the agenda).
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Hirayama Miki's "manatsu no dekigoto"
Candies' "shochū omimai mōshiagemasu"
Posted on July 21, 2008 at 19:19 | Tweet
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