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really looking forward to new stuff. I was just listening to KZKNH today, and aside from some lag towards the end, it sounds better than ever.

also, wtf @ the tracklinks to this thread?

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I will probably buy a new solo album, I'm sure. No EP. No videos now, because that means buying a new DVD player, which I still haven't done.

tracklinks?

― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I see. Weird.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link

trackbacks, i meant.

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I got it. I normally don't have that displayed.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link

How about some free limited edition bonus DVDs for her American fans?

― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 5 November 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone know what a yokusaku is?

― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 5 November 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope. But a "yakusoku" is a promise. If that's what you meant...

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 6 November 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link

From a comment on the blog milton linked to above:

The descriptions given all over the place indicate that the album is an "iyokusaku", just like "KARUKI ZAAMEN KURI NO HANA", so I think Ringo'll be producing the album again.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Monday, 6 November 2006 01:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmmm.....
iyoku= desire or ambition

saku= harvest or bloom

Maybe it's those two words put together, I guess that'd kinda make sense. Wanting to blossom creatively or something.... beats me.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 6 November 2006 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Shiina Manzanita, hahaha:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC-u0c2w7hg

― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 19 November 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

You can listen to the new song with Soil & Pimp Sessions here:

http://blog.naver.com/delico4u/70010525142

― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Live DVD excerpts showing up on myspace:

http://vidsearch.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=747236124

― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 19 November 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

It may sound backwards, but I'm thinking this Soil & Pimp Sessions collaboration might help Shiina Ringo crossover more outside of Japan. I have run across more people (online) who know about Soil & Pimp than I would have expected. Get a few jazz fans who also have ears for pop and rock and that could be a wedge that opens up more of an audience for SR. (OTOH, her "jazz" singing might not be the best entree for jazz fans. I don't consider her a jazz singer, even if sometimes her attempts in that direction work out. She doesn't sound sufficiently at home in a very jazz-oriented setting to be a jazz singer--too much strain.)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Weird, I was planning on blogging about "Souretsu" because it came up on random and I thought it was Cale and Riley's "Church of Anthrax" at first.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the new song (title translates to 'temporary virgin (deathjazz version)'). need to check out a Soil & Pimp album.

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

ysi?

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

check Leonardo & upthread

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Looking over these translations, I am finding her lyrics are a lot more consistently dark than I'd realized. (I wish I knew Japanese and that it wouldn't take me forever to learn it if I seriously wanted to.)

(This thread does not come up in ilx search, incidentally.)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

which means that you have this thread bookmarked, don't you. admit it.

usually, the happier her music, the more devestating the lyrics are. it's the way in to her relentlessly perky new material -- she's singing about double suicide, betrayal, ghosts, the end of the world, graphically uneasy sex with someone she can't trust, etc.

and this new single is incredible. I'm playing it over and over. once again, after a brief intro in japanese, all in english. the bittersweet harmonies going into the chorus, it's actually as sad as it is happy. it's so good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR_OzfBeiSU

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

video, .avi file (worth it to see it big -- reminds me of a Jacques Demy musical). and an mp3 rip. cheers to members migoto & squee.

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I have made the following shiina spottings:

- sampled on O.lamm's new "Monolith" album.
- field recorded on Sarah Peebles' "Walking Through Tokyo At The Turn Of The Century" album

Things I have belatedly noticed on her sleeve art: On Gibusu she is cutting her hand & on Mayonaka wa Junketsu she is a mannequin. I had to see them in person to notice.

― xcixxorx (xcixxorx), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

which means that you have this thread bookmarked, don't you. admit it.

Actually, I found it by searching Google and finding it in someone else's bookmarks, which I now do have bookmarked.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

So what's the deal with her mother being a ballerina, or having been a ballerina? Why haven't I heard more about that angle? That puts the whole fact that she was told she couldn't be a ballerina in a different light.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh my god, I think it's a danzon (not that I particularly like them, but still--cool, man!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrZzsALGkaU

― R_S (RSLaRue), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually maybe just a tango, but they are kind of related.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

She certainly writes a lot about prostitution.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

so is tokyo jihen officially called tokyo incidents? like was it a real change or just something they did for adult?

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah the CD does say Incidents doesn't it? I think everyone still says "Tokyo Jihen" too, including the band.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 6 January 2007 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link

from the ringo jihen site:

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
#What is the band actually called, Tokyo Jihen or Tokyo Incident?
The real name is Tokyo Jihen (actually the exact transliteration would be Toukyou Jihen), but in some Western sites, and sometimes in TJ's official site, they are called Tokyo Incident, which is none other that the translation of the original name.

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Saturday, 6 January 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm glad that satisfies you.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

So now we are waiting for the "solo" Shiina Ringo album Heisei Fuzoku, with the following tracks:

01 - Gamble (ƒMƒƒƒ“ƒuƒ‹)
02 - Kuki (Œs)
03 - Sakuran (TERRA ver.) (ö—)
04 - Hatsukoi Shoujo (ƒnƒcƒRƒC©—)
05 - Papaya Mango (ƒpƒpƒCƒ„ƒ}ƒ“ƒS[)
06 - Ishiki (ˆÓŽ¯)
07 - Yokushitsu (—Žº)
08 - Meisai (–ÀÊ)
09 - Poltergeist (ƒ|ƒ‹ƒ^[ƒKƒCƒXƒg)
10 - Karisome Otome (TAMEIKESANNOH ver.) (ƒJƒŠƒ\ƒ‰³—)
11 - Oiran (‰ÔŠ@)
12 - Yume no Ato (–²‚Ì‚ ‚Æ)
13 - Kono Yo no Kagiri (‚±‚Ì–é‚ÌŒÀ‚è)

Further updates (and a new PV) here:

http://ringoran.wordpress.com/

― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I've promised myself that I would take a break from hyping Shiina Ringo, at least until the new CD is out, but I thought it was worth mentioning that apparently Tokyo Jihen's drummer broke his hand, and some people are speculating that that's why SR is putting out this solo album, perhaps as a stopgap measure. (Of course, she was asked to do some songs for a movie, as well, so I guess there might have been some new solo tracks regardless, but perhaps not a whole album.)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Milton, if you see this, there's some interesting new stuff available in the media section of the R. Jihen forum. (Downloading something now.)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

(well, one interesting new stuff)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Cover of forthcoming solo album (apparently anyway):

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/pictures/s/16/34/TOCT-26210.jpg

― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 13 January 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7463/heiseimt2.jpg

― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link

OK I got KZK and it is living up to the hype. Now to find translations of the lyrics.

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://freckle.tenkeimedia.com/nl/ringo/kalksamen.html

― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 27 January 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks!

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 27 January 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.risingstuff.com/personal/sroricon.jpg

― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 28 January 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://shiinaringo.se/pics/Magazines/Rockin%20on%20Japan%20vol%20308%20January%

― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 28 January 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

(00ps!)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 28 January 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway: http://shiinaringo.se/pics/index.php?sortby=name&dir=.%2FMagazines%2FRockin+on+Japan+vol+308+January+2007

― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 28 January 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

'Sakuran' to premiere at Berlin Film has been building buzz in Japan
By MARK SCHILLINGTOKYO -- "Sakuran," the debut feature by photog Mika Ninagawa, has been selected in the Berlin Film Festival's Special section, distrib Asmik Ace has announced.
The Feb. 9 screening will be the pic's world premiere, preceding its Feb. 24 opening in Japan.
Based on a manga by Moyoco Anno, the pic stars Anna Tsuchiya ("Kamikaze Girls") as an oiran (high-class prostitute) in the feudal-era Tokyo red-light district of Yoshiwara.
The pic has been getting a huge amount of buzz in Japan for its splashy visuals, Tsuchiya's pull-out-the-stops perf and the eclectic jazz/pop score by pop diva Ringo Shina.
Both Ninagawa and Tsuchiya will travel to Berlin for the screening --and their first red-carpet appearances at a major international fest.
Ninagawa is the daughter of theater director Yukio Ninagawa, known for his experimental stagings of Shakespeare and Greek classics around the world.

Read the full article at:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117957980.html

― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 28 January 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

God she is fucking brilliant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrZzsALGkaU

(This drastically reworks an earlier song, with typical aplomb. With a little help from Saito Neko, her George Martin, perhaps.)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Sunday, 28 January 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

finally found a copy of the new single at Amoeba this weekend. the cover image of Shiina & Saito folds out to a landscape of Tokyo, the packaging on her singles trump most artists' album packaging.

I'm still completely addicted to 'Konoyo Yo Kagiri'. Seemingly so happy but with some real poison in the lyrics and the harmonies. The other two songs are an alt arrangement & an instrumental of tracks from the new album -- the instrumental of 'Temporary Virgin' is on the soundtrack of what R_S just linked, sounds like an ultra-ornamented take on Astor Piazolla circa the late 80's Kip Hanrahan productions like Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night.

Apart from the first verse of 'Konoyo', all the lyrics are in English. And this is the first ever single of hers that's been available on iTunes UK. The five clips of songs from the new album are mostly in english. The push is coming. All those people too busy complaining about the lack of substance with Norah Jones, this album is looking right over your shoulder waiting for you to turn around.

Those five clips are something -- the whole album is arranged for 70 piece orchestra by Saito, but there's still some strange KZK-ish production on the third clip, 'Firstlove Prostitute'. I am counting the seconds until 2/21.

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

stripped down arrangement of 'Sakuran' from the NHK show 'Folk Master'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ej5t2vC7E&eurl=

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

such a long way from 1999's Tsumiki Asobi

You can’t get enough of abusing others
That is, you have to serve your opponent
I REALLY REALLY DO

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm holding off on buying (or trying to buy) the EP--not that I haven't heard it (and no, it was not via milton--just one of many blogs that has it up)--but I am definitely looking forward to the full album. I saw a live video of a song with Engish lyrics, from this new album, but I didn't really like her singing on that one so much. I remain very confused about her singing style. Sometimes I really love it, but sometimes I don't, and the style varies wildly, without any really linear development. She has learned certain things she didn't do earlier, but she will some time fall back on approaches that I don't like so much. In general, I don't like her singing in English as much--but her singing on the English language 'Konoyo Yo Kagiri' seemed like a big step forward, so I'm confused when English seems to bring her singing down a bit on another recent song.

― Rockist Scientist, Hippopoptimist (RSLaRue), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

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