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Vanilla Beans in Shibuya
Tonight I dropped by Tower Records in Shibuya to check out Vanilla Beans (MySpace) who were doing some promotion.
For a while they have a showcase on the 2nd floor in which are placed manikins of the two, wearing their outfits, but for the weekend the real girls come and take their place, for 30 minutes every hour!
Part of the promotion is for 3 Shibuya-kei covers newly released, but only for mobile phone download. The songs are Pizzicato Five's "Tokyo wa yoru no 7ji" ("the night is still young"), Kaji Hideki's "La Boom ~My Boom Is Me~" and Original Love's "seppun"! The girls hold large QR codes that lead to Recochoku (mobile download site). I'm really dying to hear the songs but unfortunately I don't download music on my phone, so I'll wait until they're released in another form, hopefully someday.
The installation also promotes their upcoming CD single "Love & Hate", for which Kaji Hideki wrote the lyrics. That one will be released on September 9 in two "love" and "hate" versions.
The schedule for August 22 and 23 is from 13:00 to 19:00, 30 minutes per hour.
This was picked up by QR-code informational site 2d code (UK). Thanks!
Posted on August 21, 2009 at 23:34 | Tweet
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Oh... Maintenant je sais ce que Hideki kaji a fait sur Love & Hates (je ne parle pas le japonais... donc dur de comprendre la relation qu'il avait avec cette sortie CD).
J'aime beaucoup ton blog :) ça me permet d'apprendre beaucoup sur les artistes que j'aime bien. Merci pour tout.
Posted by aza on August 26, 2009 at 00:31
Merci!! :)
Et oui, au début je croyais que Kaji-kun avait fait la musique aussi, je suis un peu déçu que ce soit que les paroles, mais bon! On peut en entendre un petit bout ici: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJFyrH296z0
J'aimerais bien entendre ces covers Shibuya-kei dont "La Boum..."!
Posted by Patrick on August 28, 2009 at 22:33