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BEGIN Starts Up Their Own Record Label: PIG PINK
Music group BEGIN has founded its own music label named PIG PINK, also known by the nickname ‘Buta House.’ The label started in July as part of Imperial Records, the J-pop branch of Teichiku Records. Last fall, BEGIN started working on their music in a pink-walled house on Okinawa. Their label’s name is based on…
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Yui Aragaki to Make Debut as J-pop Singer!
If Yukie Nakama is beautiful, Yu Yamada sexy, then 19 year old Yui Aragaki definitely has cute down. The model-turned-actress will be making her J-pop singing debut with the song “Memories” from the film which she also stars in called “Koisuru MADORI” (starts its run in theaters on 8/18/07). Also appearing in the movie is…
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CD Album: Hirokazu Matsuda’s ‘Sanshin-Zanmai’
Long known as a master utasaa (Okinawan folk musician), it’s hard to believe that the September 26, 2007 “Sanshin-Zanmai” (RES-126, 14 tracks), marks Hirokazu Matsuda’s (The Fere) first nationwide CD album release. Thanks to the awesome record label Respect Record (Seijin Noborikawa, Sadao China, Yoriko Ganeko, Takashi Hirayasu, Ryukyu Underground, Toru Yonaha), fans of Okinawan…
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Claudia Oshiro’s Debut Album Coming Soon?
According to the Okinawa Cyura Sounds blog (which happens to also be one of my favorite podcasts from Okinawa), Argentine-born nisei (2nd generation) Claudia Oshiro will soon be making her CD debut with The Boom’s Kazufumi Miyazawa as producer! I couldn’t find much info on the album yet — it’ll be called “CLAUDIA” — but…
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Cocco’s ‘No Music, No Life’ T-shirt
Tower Records Japan has a pretty cool Cocco inspired “No Music, No Life” t-shirt available for pre-sale. I’m also looking forward to the July 25, 2007, release of her forthcoming album, “Kirara”, which was recorded with an “Okinawa” concept.
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Haikara’s ‘Dreams’
Following the release of their third album “San”, HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR will be releasing a new single on August 1, 2007, called “Dreams”. Tenth single release from HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR features a brand new ballad about the sadness of breaking up. Single also appears as the outro theme to anime series “Darker Than…
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ORANGE RANGE’s ‘Orange’
Following the 7/18/07 release of their single, “Ikenai Taiyou”, ORANGE RANGE will be releasing two discs of their greatest hits. The title of the discs will simply be “Orange”. Greatest hits collection from Orange Range includes their complete singles up until their 2006 album “Orange Range.” Split into type A and type B with different…
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ORANGE RANGE’s ‘Ikenai Taiyo’
ORANGE RANGE’s latest single, “Ikenai Taiyou”, will be released on Wednesday, July 18, 2007. New single release from Orange Range features a retro pop killer sound! Limited edition includes bonus DVD with footage from the band’s March 2007 performance at Zepp Tokyo. *Unless otherwise indicated, DVDs are region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and…
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