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Nakatsuka Takeshi & Nomiya Maki Christmas mini-live: report
Tonight was a free mini live show at Marunouchi Bldg (aka Maru-biru) just by Tokyo station of Nakatsuka Takeshi featuring Nomiya Maki.
Even though the place is on my way home from work, I really didn't think of going as we're a bit busy these days..! The precise time was also unknown, I just knew it would be sometime between 20:00 and 21:00, and the show was going to be stuck between other other artists I didn't care about. Also it was already 20:30 when I finished work, but I had the good idea to have a quick look on social network Mixi and found a post on the Nomiya Maki community saying that it would start at 20:40! It was time to run a little bit. :) Be sure that I made it just in time!
Nakatsuka Takeshi sat at his piano and was accompanied by a band with bass, guitar and sax/flute. He first played a few songs singing on his own, a Christmas one and then maybe some of his originals, before finally being joined by Maki!
Maki wore a purple dress with large yellow pompoms, red plaid leggings, and large bright red gloves. The first song she sang was "ehon no naka no Christmas" ("Christmas in a picture book"), an original from her 1981 album "Pink no kokoro". This is the song that I had been dying to hear. She said that it must have been only the 2nd time she sang it live (the first being back in the day), and that she was surprised at how hard it is. It's a rather weird song in the first place, with no repeated chorus. That was amazing of course!
This was followed by "Beautiful", a song from Nakatsuka's latest album "Kiss & Ride" on which Maki sings. Good club track that was great to hear performed by a live band.
Only 2 songs with Maki plus a bit of talking, that was very short, but it fit right in my schedule (or almost). :)
Photos will probably show up on her blog shortly. (Update 12/27: A photo can be now found on her blog.)
Posted on December 23, 2008 at 01:57 | Tweet
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