Blog - Weekly revue: 2019 week #43 (October 19 to 25)
Weekly revue: 2019 week #43 (October 19 to 25)
Food: - Curry at Cochin Nivas, Shinjuku
- Mutton curry at Tapir in Snark Liquidworks, Nishi-Ikebukuro
- Katsu curry at Triangle Curry, Shibuya
Music events: - This week was the release of Hoshino Michiru's new album "Moonlight Confessions" (Japanese title "tsuki ga kirei desune"). It's her first album since founding her own label ("yoi Record gaisha"), and it's much more acoustic than her previous works, yet it has a great variety of music styles and all of the piano is played by Michiru herself. The album was produced by Sally Kubota who plays bass on many of the songs. There's also an irresistible cover of Pizzicato Five's "They All Laughed"!
On release day I went to see an in-store event at HMV record shop Shinjuku Alta, where Michiru sang 5 songs from the album (including "Rock'n'roll Apple Pie" which also appeared on previous EP "gyakkō"). Of these, "Bon Voyage, Michiru!" and "My Dear" are definitely new favorites, so it was great to hear them sung live! While Michiru has often performed while playing the piano recently, in this week's in-store events she stood and sang over the instrumental.
I look forward to seeing her again, probably at her "Michiru Best ~1985-2019~" event next month at Billboard Cafe & Dining (details)!
Set list: Rock'n'roll Apple Pie / Bon Voyage, Michiru! (Michiru no Taiheiyō kō) / hanashi kaketakatta (Minamino Yōko cover) / My Dear (watashi dake no hito) / Umbrella Waltz (amatsubu no Waltz)
- Then on the next day I went back to the same place, HMV record shop Shinjuku Alta, for an event of Wakita Monari (Vivid Sound label-mate of Hoshino Michiru). While she promoted her latest album "Right Here", the event was also to celebrate the 3rd anniverary of the store which nearly coincides with Monari's solo debut. Because of that she also sang some of her early songs, "Cloudless Night" from 1st album "I am ONLY" and debut single "In the City". Thanks for the fun event!
Set list: Cloudless Night / In the City / Peppermint Rainbow / Take It Lucky!!!! / Espadrilles de tsukamaete
Movie: Went to see Indian movie "Gully Boy", about hip-hop culture around Mumbai, and expecially about a Muslim guy who lives in a slum area and gains attention as he develops rap skills. We had first seen it in a theater in Jaipur (in Hindi), so it was good seeing it again with subtitles.
Music release news: Sunny Kubota & Old Lucky Boys, Hajime Tachibana & Low Powers, xiangyu, Yoshida Tetsuto
This week's video: Hajime Tachibana & Low Powers "Chikyū Yori Tooi 2 lp"
Posted on October 27, 2019 at 23:12 | Tweet
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