Blog - Weekly revue: 2020 week #2 (January 11 to 17)

Weekly revue: 2020 week #2 (January 11 to 17)

Music event: My first show of the year was an event titled "WAVES vol.1" at Ebisu Batica, where I went to see Manon! Whenever I go to events she's part of I rarely know of any of the other artists beforehand, but I always end up finding out about some other really good ones too.

This time I enjoyed sets by kim taehoon, a Korea-born (though living in Japan since 4) shoegazer artist who uses several loopers and also plays guitar very well for a great result, and also band Klang Ruler, normally a 5-piece but this time they performed as a trio, who had a cool new generation city pop-ish sound with very good synths and twin vocals. I was also surprised by singer-songwriter/trackmaker ASA who has a powerful voice. I'll definitely look out for seeing them again somewhere. And MANON did a great set too of course, although being a little bit short with 5 songs, but still with several of my favorites.

Manon will be in Tokyo again on February 11 for event Tokyo Pico Pico Fes with Nakata Yasutaka, banvox, Dé Dé Mouse, Ram Rider, Toriena, Yackle and many more.

Manon set list: Swipe / Gomenne Girl / 2 Live In A Real World / Air Kissing / Coco Boi Romance

In order: kim taehoon, Klang Ruler, ASA and MANON