Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child

One of the EDM (Electronic Dance Music) artists. We can know the energy of dance music from this video. The EDM movement first appeared in Europe and then has influenced on the music scene in U.S.A. In Japan, the word starts to come to attention, I think.


Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child [feat. John Martin]

Paramore - Anklebiters

We can watch Paramore's new video. This animation is funny and surrealistic for me.


Paramore - Anklebiters

IBB is on Stage with Dancers

You can see the performance by Immigrant's Bossa Band and dancers. Sounds intertwine with stream-lined dance.


Immigrant's Bossa Band - Bonito
(with CARNIVAL)

Immigrant's Bossa Band - Calling
(with payday)

Immigrant's Bossa Band - La Isla Bonita
(with CARNIVAL and Takeshi Ogawa)

Immigrant's Bossa Band - Spiritual Love -Immigrant's Cover Collection

Titled "Spiritual Love -Immigrant's Cover Collection," the album was released previous week in Japan. All songs are covered by Immigrant's Bossa Band. If you love jazz, Latin or Brazilian music, you may have listened to these songs in the original version.

You can listen to the album with more care. You can use some songs as BGM. And you can dance with some exciting songs. Especially, I love the songs: "You've Got To Have Freedom," "New Morning" and "That's What Friends Are For."

You can listen to three instrumental tracks on SoundCloud: "Sombre Guitar," "It's You" and "Mas Que Nada."
STORYSAILING - Immigrant's Bossa Band

Paramore's Performance in Japan

You can listen to four songs in following video. Paramore's performance is great. I hope that they will come to Japan again. No doubt their aggressive performance makes me excited if they play on the stage in Japan.


Paramore's performance in Japan (SUMMER SONIC 2009)

TUNECORE

billboardbiz - Tunecore Reports $300 Million in Artist Payments Since Inception

PRWeb - TuneCore Artists See 20% Growth in Earnings and 67% Increase in Downloads and Streams -Top Digital Music Distributor Exceeds $300 Million in Artist Earnings-

The above articles about TUNECORE's growth. Streaming and download are mainstream of digital music distribution system in the world. (But it does not apply to Japan...) The relationship between musician and record company is changing, so the new way to distribute music, like TUNECORE, should be payed attention to.

Sing for Hope Pianos

"Sing for Hope Pianos" is nice activity. Everyone can play pianos that appear here and there in New York. One of Sing for Hope project. New Yorker's blog told me Sing for Hope Pianos. When searching on Twitter, I could find some pictures about it. People play a piano on the street in New York. The sound of a piano can be heard from the street corner―very interesting, I think.

Sing for Hope Pianos
http://www.singforhope.org/about

Taylor Swift - Everything Has Changed

This song "Everything Has Changed" moved me. The melody has tenderness. I feel so good. Some people may feel nostalgic about this melody included in verse and chorus.

Taylor Swift - Everything Has Changed [feat. Ed Sheeran]

Nagashizu Tenugui

"Nagasizu-tenugui Project" was realized in the website "READY FOR?", one of the crowdfunding platform in Japan. In the project, tenugui, a traditional cloth in Japan like a towel, is produced and taken to people in Nagashimizu district in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, the sponsors and the architects overseas. The district was damaged by Tsunami on March 11th, 2011

I received nagashizu tenugui, too. It is in the motif of wave and its color is vivid. This design empowers me! I have not talked to people in Nagashimizu district. Each time I use it, I will remember that they and sponsors use the same tenugui. It is a landmark for reconstruction, very small but lasting. To be honest, the memory of the disaster will fade away in time, but we can bring back it. I think nagashizu tenugui is a landmark to bring back "3.11."

"Nobody can hate the sea they are always with." Risa Komuro said. She planned the project. I was impressed by her words and decided to support the project. When applying the words to me, I think my hometown, "Azumino," the land around many mountains in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. If encounter a disaster such as a landslide, do I hate the mountains? I can not answer about it. If that, can I remember what I felt in having a sympathy with the project? I want me to do, now.

(Originally written on September 15th, 2011 and edited for re-post.)

Dia Lights

Impressive lighting. "Dia" of the title "Dia Lights" is the same as "dia" of "dialogue"? The work expresses "dialogue" in various lights?


Dia Lights

Sharp AQUOS Product Video "Impression"

Music is produced by Tetsuya Komuro and video is directed by Daizaburo Harada. "ARASHIYAMA" is the title of the track. It is the name of the place in Kyoto, Japan. Theme of this video is "Japan which is looked at from outside," Daizaburo Harada said. How do you feel when you watch the work?


Sharp AQUOS Product Video "Impression"