Music!
And movies!!
Cannot say which one was my favorite but this one was surprisingly funny. Â And I don’t even like unrealistic plots but this was OK.
Quite a few music-themed films this month. Â Some music in Bucharest and Cannes as well.
Pride. Rather timely.
Visiting a label in Bucharest, Romania.
MIDEM @ Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France.
Get On Up, a biopic about the king of soul, James Brown
Pitch Perfect
Shingo Sekiguchi @ Motion Blue Yokohama
Blue @ Studio Coast
Moodoid @ Unit
The Shiny Stockings @ Blues Alley
Hysteric Panic @ Yatsui Festival @ O-Nest
Blind Guardian @ O-East
Hiroko Kokubu @ Yamaha Hall
I quite enjoyed seeing these metal guys from Krefeld, Germany who came back to Japan on a proper tour for the first time in 13 years.
Some jazz and jazz-y stuff plus alternative rock and classic punk. Â In chronological order…
Halie Loren at Cotton Club
Nice display for Halie Loren at Yamano Music Store in Ginza
OK Go at Tsutaya O-East
The OK Go crowd as seen from the balcony before the sold-out show
Marcus Miller at Blue Note Tokyo
Diane Schuur at Cotton Club
Adam at at Tower Records Shibuya, an in-store event
Ditto
The legendary Pop Group at Tower Records Shinjuku, an in-store event
Ditto
Jill-Decoy association at Nihonbashi Mitsui Hall
Here is OK Go’s truly impressive video for “I Won’t Let You Down” shot in one single shot in Japan with a Japanese director, choreographer, staff, etc. etc. using Honda’s Uni-Cub as their vehicle. Â Yes, quite literally.
I was under the impression that I had more musical activities during September but apparently not. I did go to Tokyo Jazz Festival which is one event packed with multiple artists so that may be why I thought there was more.
In any case, to wrap up…
Bob James Quintet @ Blue Note Tokyo on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Tokyo Jazz Festival @ Tokyo International Forum & Cotton Club. Saw Take 6, Ben E. King, Burt Bacharach, Steven Rossitto, Joe Sample & the CreoleJoe Band on Saturday, September 8 and Steven Rossitto and Esperanza Spalding on Sunday, September 9, 2012.
An edible promo gift. From Friday, September 21, 2012.
Chico & the Gypsies @ Blue Note Tokyo. Saturday, September 29, 2012
Every year when the Stylistics return to Tokyo, it hits you that it’s really Christmas and that the year is almost over. It’s often my final musical event of the year.
Saw the group last night so I am taking this opportunity to go back a bit to the beginning of November to recap my music experiences in the last couple of months (a couple of which I already wrote about but mostly haven’t.)
One of the signature Stylistics songs in Japan, performed somewhat slower these days.
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