the Shiina Ringo thread

At least I thought so. Unless I was reading old news from 2014 and got mixed up.

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.

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.

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/

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)?

might be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVCCe2tuL20

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

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

I think it might be one of those Heisei Fuzoki videos.

Is that Kentaro Kobayashi in the Stem video? Star of "The Japanese Tradition"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDL8yu34fz0

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.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vaxn6?GK_FACEBOOK_OG_HTML5=1

Don't think there were any flowers though.

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?

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).

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

An A for her wardrobe.

And it's gone.

Still in love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezC4ybLJsPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0dKO8nob9c

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

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?

https://twitter.com/hope_moonandsun/status/815339068359725056
https://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)

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.

These are pretty fun, especially the one on the right:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0_KnrVUkAAQp6G.jpg

TJ reunion already? ha

LOL.

$hiina Ringo.

i'm only mad she can't sell her way out here to the US

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.

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.

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/

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?

The first video is kind of Irohanihoheto meets Killer Tune, meets the usual partial disrobing.

She loves metronomes.

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.

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=HCSWWuWholY
https://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

those are a nice find, thanks

http://aramajapan.com/news/music/musicvideo/shiina-ringo-releases-6-videos-ahead-of-her-new-live-dvd-blu-ray/74487/

Oh shit. Just checking these out now. First one is pretty good so far.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZs1-CiqUj4

Maybe I will replace my TV.

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.

But better than the usual has been.

A true giant.

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.

Whoa.

Oh wait, so this is from the Mangarama show Milton mentioned?

Ukigumo looking rather Frippish (if not sounding it).