I don't know if it's a great album per se, but it has a bunch of good-to-great songs on it. One reason I didn't say more about it is that I simply am not sure what to say about it. The newer (often Latin tinged) jazz-oriented tracks were very well-crafted.
The some what sui generis (in her catalog) "Irohanihoheto" is still my favorite on this album.
But as an album it's a bit too much of a miscellany.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 2 July 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
She wrote some sort of music for the World Cup this year, I think. Has anyone heard that?
At least I thought so. Unless I was reading old news from 2014 and got mixed up.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 2 July 2016 13:47 (seven years ago) link
Still no Shiina/Sheena Ringo on US Spotify. It's okay. I sometimes imagine her being "discovered" in a big way, somewhere down the line. But maybe what she has done best is too far removed from where popular music generally is or is headed. Then again, I know a lot of college aged people who listen a ton to rock from the 60s and 70s. (Not calling SR classic rock, but she's more of a piece with that than with most of what's on US top 40.) Music in foreign languages is still mostly a hard sell in the US.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 2 July 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, even someone like Shakira barely broke through to the US, I feel like. definitely possible one day people will wake up to her and/or a bunch of journalists will start crowing about her achievements, hopefully during our generation. but even if this doesn't happen, she seems pretty successful both commercially and artistically in her career and I still feel like she's got a lot more to give.But yeah it sucks that she didn't reach Spotify here or even the US iTunes store.
― Nhex, Sunday, 3 July 2016 03:27 (seven years ago) link
I missed that she performed in Taiwan, not that I would have gone, but interesting development:
http://www.mtv81.com/news/ringo-shiina-launches-special-site-for-her-first-overseas-show-in-taiwan/
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 4 July 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
there was a song on here that I liked that was on youtube and had like some animated video that was pink or purple and had flowers blowing in the wind? maybe? like over hills? does anyone have any idea what song had a youtube video like this at some point (that has since been removed)?
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
might be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVCCe2tuL20
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
lol wow that actually has animated flowers on a pink background and like horizontal parallax motion but that is not it! the song was kinda upbeat and peppy and sort of vaguely reminds me of early Bjork or something? also I think she said "la la la la la" a lot
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
stumped me. right now to find any of her many videos, you pretty much have to search with kanji to find something posted within the last 12 months; sony has really cracked down on uploads of her videos. even on the official vevo, clicking on most of them results in 'not available in your country'.
we never really talked about how wonderful the video is for Irohanihoheto a few years ago though
http://en.musicplayon.com/play?v=935827
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
I think it might be one of those Heisei Fuzoki videos.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
Is that Kentaro Kobayashi in the Stem video? Star of "The Japanese Tradition"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDL8yu34fz0
― mick signals, Friday, 15 July 2016 04:06 (seven years ago) link
the song was kinda upbeat and peppy and sort of vaguely reminds me of early Bjork or something? also I think she said "la la la la la" a lot
Maybe was Soil & Pimp's "My Foolish Heart." I forget what the video looked like. Trying to find it.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 19 August 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vaxn6?GK_FACEBOOK_OG_HTML5=1
Don't think there were any flowers though.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 19 August 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Not one of her finer jazz slinging moments, in my opinion.
it was def shiina ringo and there were like animated hills and i think a pinkish background?
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 19 August 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
I finally figured out what song the beginning of Kodoku no Atkatsuki reminds me, and it's really obvious, though I never knew the title of the song before: Rita Coolidge - Close the Window. (And no, the SR songs is not as good as that one which I've never especially liked but now have to at least grudgingly admire).
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 20 August 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
Solo Ringo, 2014. Not sure whether or not it's been linked to before. Polished, but as with many of these performances I'm not sure how interested I'd be without familiarity with the back catalog. Heavy on the torch singer mask.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeljBXpXH-M
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 9 September 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
An A for her wardrobe.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 9 September 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
And it's gone.
Still in love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezC4ybLJsPM
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 2 January 2017 04:24 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0dKO8nob9c
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 2 January 2017 04:29 (seven years ago) link
I thought you'd be posting last night's NYE TV Tokyo Jihen reunion. Cheesy even for her, still watched it.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1FLsh7UAAAq9S8.jpg
― Milton Parker, Monday, 2 January 2017 05:47 (seven years ago) link
How many reunion concerts will there be? Probably many.
I didn't know about it. How did you watch it? Online or through some cable/satelite channel?
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 2 January 2017 06:19 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/hope_moonandsun/status/815339068359725056https://twitter.com/mocomina7/status/815181009343770624
it was only this one song, the single from that 2014 comp of her versions of the songs she'd written for other pop stars. the entire song is on youtube as well, but they made the image tiny to evade the bot police, so you can't really see the dancers' expressions (ayabambi were the dancers on her 2014 tour, before madonna bit them)
― Milton Parker, Monday, 2 January 2017 07:37 (seven years ago) link
The Tokyo skyline looks so beautiful it almost makes me want to cry. (I'm pretty emotionally hair-trigger at the moment, however.)
But yes, I could do with less Vegas in her newer performances or however you want to describe it.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 2 January 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
These are pretty fun, especially the one on the right:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0_KnrVUkAAQp6G.jpg
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 2 January 2017 15:18 (seven years ago) link
TJ reunion already? ha
― Nhex, Sunday, 22 January 2017 00:30 (seven years ago) link
LOL.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 22 January 2017 00:33 (seven years ago) link
$hiina Ringo.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 22 January 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link
i'm only mad she can't sell her way out here to the US
― Nhex, Sunday, 22 January 2017 00:35 (seven years ago) link
New Megumi Hayashibara/Shiina Ringo - “Imawa no Shinigami”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBva7Fu0O2Q
http://aramajapan.com/news/music/watch-new-megumi-hayashibarashiina-ringo-collaboration-song-mv/69910/
Kind of like it. Also some sort of Ringo Blue Ray/DVD due out in May.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 16 April 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
Also, this Doughnuts Hole thing is pretty good (better than the one above, I think):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwg6ILsn8cI
At work and can't really check for full version if it's out there.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 16 April 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
On Tuesday, January 17, TBS will debut it’s new drama “Quartet“, which will feature a brand new theme song penned by Shiina Ringo. As is common with Ringo nowadays, it has once again been given to another artist, however, more interestingly, this artist is a ‘limited unit’ just for the show called “Doughnuts Hole“. The group consists of members Takako Matsu, Mitsushima Hikari, Issei Takahaski and Ryuuhei Matsuda. The song “Otono no Okite” is arranged by Ringo and Saito Neko and features players HZM, Saito Neko Quartet, Yuya Tamura and Uni Inoue. Read further to see promotional images of Doughnuts Hole and trailer for “Quartet”.
http://aramajapan.com/news/shiina-ringo-pens-song-for-fictional-band-doughnuts-hole/69488/
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 16 April 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
I'm probably just desperate for a new Ringo fix. I think maybe I like the first collaboration better after all. Is there more to the second song or is that really it in its complete form?
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 17 April 2017 02:31 (seven years ago) link
The first video is kind of Irohanihoheto meets Killer Tune, meets the usual partial disrobing.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 17 April 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link
She loves metronomes.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 17 April 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
I like both! I have a lot of time for Shiina Ringo but not everything she does appeals to me, so this is good news.
― emil.y, Monday, 17 April 2017 22:17 (seven years ago) link
happened across some clips of the 2015 one-off 'Mangarama' show. cool to see Uki & HZM in the same lineup & good on the KZK/Shoso songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSWWuWholYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeaanErN-bs
lots of clips of the 2014 and expo 08 shows currently up as well. fairly vegas, but never completely, given her cobwebbed antlers and all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvm58rspiKs
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 09:02 (seven years ago) link
those are a nice find, thanks
― ufo, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 09:40 (seven years ago) link
http://aramajapan.com/news/music/musicvideo/shiina-ringo-releases-6-videos-ahead-of-her-new-live-dvd-blu-ray/74487/
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
Oh shit. Just checking these out now. First one is pretty good so far.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
Like good good, not "well kinda nice to hear from her and it's not that bad" except I'm not into this guy talking so much as part of the song. But check it out. I think you are going to like it.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZs1-CiqUj4
Maybe I will replace my TV.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
I'm being self-indulgent today and have earbuds in. Very caught up on work at the moment. Perfect timing. Need to hear that again, now. I guess that was Soil & Pimp? I don't know their names. Maybe not. Bit of a Jihen presence as well. The usual.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
But better than the usual has been.
A true giant.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
Maybe this is an old song? I don't recognize it, but I'm sure I've lost track of some of her projects here and there at this point.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
Whoa.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link