new album news (sort of):
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/TYCT-60035
http://i.imgur.com/TGzZVyG.jpg
Gyakuyunyu - Kowankyoku: Self-cover album from Ringo Shiina includes songs she previously provided to popular artists in Japan such as PUFFY, Chiaki Kuriyama, and SMAP from 1998 to the present. Contains a total of 11 songs with new arrangements.
― tao lin wolf (unregistered), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
More news, album in Nov.
http://sadisticgossip.blogspot.co.uk/
― MaresNest, Monday, 22 September 2014 12:19 (nine years ago) link
more than half of this is drawn from the last five years worth of non-album singles. some of which I did like, and hats off to her astounding work ethic slamming out at least one new CD and one new DVD a year, but the 'albums' really are seeming more and more cobbled together.
I tried twice with 'Gyakuyunyu - Kowankyoku'. Otomo Yoshihide's jazz orchestra arrangement of her song for Puffy is pretty great, and Otomo's noise guitar solo even gets soloed in the mix for about 1.5 seconds. That collaboration would have blown my mind 10 years ago, but given how high Otomo's star has risen in mainstream Japan since writing that jazzy theme for a hit daily radio show, this ends up being the least surprising track on the record. much of the production on the other tracks is trying way too hard.
all that said, still a diehard, ready to listen to anything she puts out
― Milton Parker, Monday, 22 September 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
http://loud.cl/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aramajapan_news_xlarge_sheenaringo_art20140919-564x570.jpg
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
best artist and most beautiful person on earth
― een, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
well, at least when her hair is off, you know it'll be different by next year
― Nhex, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
still need to give Gyakuyunyu - Kowankyoku a few more listens
― Nhex, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
http://www.sharkenterprises.biz/accordion/dixiechicken.jpg
― the tune was space, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
Pretty good salsa cover of Marunouchi Sadistic by a band out of Bogota, Colombia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeQDbPpfcIQ
Will be back to say more about the new album at some point. Basically it's a mess with more tracks I like than don't like, but not something I have a desire to listen to straight through. I very much like the new jazzy tracks: Shizuka Naru Gyakushuu, Hashire wa Number, Sekidou wo Koetara, and Ima.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 16 November 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
cool video! laudable effort, though the singer has a tough comparisonit's no Boys II Men style cover, but what can you do
― Nhex, Sunday, 16 November 2014 03:14 (nine years ago) link
For those who are interested but haven't yet heard the new album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfq8LRqmB-w
(I imagine this will get yanked pretty quickly though.)
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 23 November 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
Actually, looks like the whole album is up there now.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 23 November 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
More not-her-best, but not bad:
https://vk.com/video-9089995_171354843
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 15 May 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
she's middling now, but has there been any act out of asia since YMO as great and essential as shiina ringo? she's got one of the all-time classic rock/pop albums to her name, and imo rounding up the best of her other stuff puts her on a level far above bjork, beck, or any other such artist who might be considered a peer/analog
― soyrev, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:58 (eight years ago) link
No argument here (although I wouldn't feel comfortable make sweeping claims about all of Asia). She is still capable of something like this from just a few years back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ML7SdxI_c
For that matter, I thought some of the new songs on her album last year were quite good.
Part of the problem is that she has embraced her own institutionalization so enthusiastically, with all of these often self-parodic performances celebrating her own career. I'm not sure what to make of all of that, although perhaps she's always been laughing up her sleeve at her various stage personae.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 18 May 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
i am most certainly comfortable with sweeping claims about asia!
no one artist comes close out of korea, china, HK, taiwan...and none of the other asian countries really have the industry or audience means to support a genius like shiina ringo's even were its kernel to appear. japan had some killer pop artists in the '80s and early '90s who need to be considered, but from the immense amount of listening i've done so far i can't say anyone truly stands in the class. only YMO and their members' solo careers eclipse her, but then again, i don't think any of them have a single album as relentlessly brilliant as kuri no hana...
and yeah i love a lot of her new stuff (second half of "nippon" melts my nerve endings), but it's more a pick and choose game now for sure, and generally with lesser/less artful peaks. though some of her post-hana stuff, at an individual song level, match or best that album's highlights imo
― soyrev, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
reading through this old thread a bit it occurs to me that she's done some pretty unique rearrangements live. anyone have any mp3 bootlegs handy? demos/rarities/etc, anything would be welcome...i already have both Demo 1 and Demo 2, and the 1999.11.30 gig at kyoei branko
― soyrev, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 12:09 (eight years ago) link
How I wish, bet there's a ton of stuff in the vaults that will just appear one day in a massively expensive and exquisite box set.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link
i really hope so.
but i'm sure there are some live bootlegs out there in the ether, doubt i have anything any such collector would want/need but i'd be happy to trade sometime if anyone has any good gigs. falling back under ringo's spell and want whatever i can get
― soyrev, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link
I think I have some MP3 boots stored away, but they might not be that great iirc, I'll have a look
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 13:03 (eight years ago) link
ah no pressure, thank you though. i need to find some reliable discography of all her singles and guest appearances and stuff, i'm sure there're a lot of floaters i'm still missing
― soyrev, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link
It's no trouble, this what I got...
http://i62.tinypic.com/1585yd0.jpg
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 13:09 (eight years ago) link
how about that. I don't have too much of the early ephemera but many of my favorite post-KZK tracks are the b-sides
favorite live show that never saw official release is Jihen's 'Domestic Virgin Line' show, posted to this thread more than once and here again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDotMg5_cA4
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
well, looks pretty good to me! i'd gratefully receive any of the live stuff you have (except the branko one, since i'm guessing that's the 99 boot i have), don't have much shiina per se to give in return, but it does look like i have a little more of her demos than you do there, i've got 31 tracks total arranged into a DEMO1 and a DEMO2. if you're interested i *think* i just successfully webmailed you
― soyrev, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
The address attached to my webmail is long dead I'm afraid, email me again at nakagincapsuleto✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ instead.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
dammit that was (without gaps) - nakagin capsule tower at gmail
For those who have never seen these wonderful TV commercials for KZK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sKvEm2ib5Y
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
lol. not an easy album to advertise!
also like how the editor seems to have romanized it "RINNGO" just for symmetry's sake.
― soyrev, Friday, 22 May 2015 03:12 (eight years ago) link
Soil & "PIMP" Sessions are touring Europe again, kinda tempted.
June25th - Fusion Festival - Larz, Germany (Festival) 28th -Glastonbury - Glastonbury, UK (Festival) 30th - North Sea Jazz Club - Amsterdam, Holland (Venue) July 1st - Bird - Rotterdamn, Holland (Venue) 3rd - Kelburn Garden Party - Largs, Scotland (Festival) 4th - Colston Hall - Bristol, UK (Venue) 7th - Jazz Café - London, UK (Venue) 9th - Band on the Wall - Manchester, UK (Venue) 10th - Mosely Jazz Festival - Birmingham, UK (Festival) 11th - La Marquies - Lyon, France (Venue) 12th - Worldwide Festival - Sete, France (Festival)
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 23:04 (eight years ago) link
Here's the Glastonbury set -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02txwt0/glastonbury-2015-soilpimpsessions
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 13:19 (eight years ago) link
had the lowest expectations for this new single, one song being an autotuned jingle written for this summer's coca-cola campaign, the other being a jingle for a cell phone. the ads have been online for a month and they have all the entertainment value of staring at a huge stack of money, but the videos for the new songs are a different story
http://aramajapan.com/news/music/musicvideo/shiina-ringo-releases-full-pvs-for-nagaku-mijikai-matsuri-and-kamisama-hotokesama/20888/
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
here are the ad versions. autopilot tightrope.
http://jrock247.com/2015/07/shiina-ringos-new-single-chosen-for-coca-cola-campaign/
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
Thanks Milton, the autotune really blows, I'm digging the other track though, has a kind of OSCA feel about it.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
the autotune one is just hilariously bad. the other one is a bit of a mess, but the good parts are good.
she's recently admitted to not trying with her music so much anymore, so it's little surprise that her output's going in this direction.
― soyrev, Thursday, 6 August 2015 00:34 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, the non-autotune one has moments of lol wut, but actually is a pretty good tune.
― emil.y, Thursday, 6 August 2015 00:34 (eight years ago) link
I'm glad this thread popped up, because this is one of the most amazing songs I've ever heard and I always forget who was responsible for it:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5q71o_shiina-ringo-x-saito-neko-yokushits_music
― Off Pudding (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 August 2015 11:37 (eight years ago) link
quality on that upload is brutal, but that's one of my favorites off the amazing heisei fuuzoku. ain't no self-cover like a shiina self-cover
― soyrev, Friday, 7 August 2015 13:47 (eight years ago) link
Everything on Dailymotion sounds like crap these days. This is a bit better:
Yokushitsu
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 7 August 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, sorry, I was searching for a video clip on the train so I couldn't actually watch it. Is the YouTube clip the remix? I haven't heard the original so I don't know how different it is.
― Off Pudding (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 August 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
I still prefer this version:
http://nhacso.net/nghe-album/shouso-strip.X1BYVUpZ.html
x-post
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 7 August 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
I don't remember which is original. There's also this earlier (EP?) version:
http://nhacso.net/nghe-nhac/la-salle-de-bain.Vl1SVUBZ.html
(I'm still not sold on her singing in English most of the time.)
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 7 August 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
An early live version. I don't think I've seen her hop around like this anywhere else. Not sure I like it:
http://vk.com/video62610559_165946360
(The opening reminds me of Psychic TV c. 1988.)
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 7 August 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
Tsumi to Batsu live, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoTAXRGzq3s#t=49
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 14 September 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
Not unworthy.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 14 September 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
why did i never listen to her 2014 record? it's pretty good
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 18 March 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
A fair chunk of her back catalogue is up on Spotify now [in the UK at least] under 'Sheena' Ringo, no Jihen as yet.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 2 April 2016 11:34 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnhNeT152Qs
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 7 May 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
why did i never listen to her 2014 record? it's pretty good― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, March 18, 2016 1:36 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, March 18, 2016 1:36 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Was let down a little by the last few albums, so I actually put off listening to her 2014 solo album Hi Izuru Tokoro until tonight.What a mistake! It's actually pretty great, and already a few tracks in feels like her best work in a while.
― Nhex, Saturday, 2 July 2016 04:46 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I really, really made a terrible mistake sleeping on it so long. This album is fantastic, easily some of her best work and production, even if it is mostly re-recordings of non-album tracks, it's super well done and feels fresh.
― Nhex, Saturday, 2 July 2016 05:22 (seven years ago) link
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