AJICO and do you know any more good Japanese music
The photo of UA there in this picture of a wall in my apartment is from an older issue of SWITCH that I picked up at a Bookoff quite a while ago. I got it for the several pages of pictures of UA taken by Nagashima Yurie, completely ignoring the main article about UA’s side project AJICO. Despite 10 years of Japan-time the only Japanese music I like (and know the artist’s names of) would be: Happy End, Suchadarappa (sp?), Ningen Isu (Human Chair), some Kahime Karie (for about 10 minutes), UA, and . . . in high school, Shonen Knife. But that’s about it.
But now after coming across the AJICO album in another Bookoff on Monday, I’m starting to wonder if there might be more great stuff I’m missing out on. I am not going to be a stuck up nerdy Music Guy, since I only have the time and energy for such elitism to be geared toward photography, and not music.
So if any of you all have a suggestion for further Listening, share away. (Ximer? Small Circle of Friends? I think I had some of their stuff on an MD back in the day…)
As long as it is not any kind of J-Pop, or by B’z, Mr. Children, or Bump of Chicken. Those bands are like natto, honest attempts have been made, but it is just not going to be allowed back into my system ever again.
日本人の方も、もし日本の音楽のすすめがあれば、ゼヒ進んでくださいー
how about the instigator of AJICO, asai kenichi (solo) and his various side projects, including sherbets & jude? and AJICO do a cover of blankey jet city’s ‘pepin’.
mayumi kojima is pretty sweet, and number girl and bloodthirsty butchers are pretty damn loud.
uh, what else to flood your comments section with… uh i have a really soft spot for elephant kashimashi…
Comment by rachael — 5/7/2008 @ 11:52 pm
i enjoy 三木祐司 and i recently saw ryukyu disco in concert, that was a good time.
Comment by kevin — 5/8/2008 @ 12:26 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THVC_9WjTAY&feature=related
this video is fun.
Comment by kevin — 5/8/2008 @ 12:30 am
if you like UA, you might also like Love Psychedelico. Or…Cocco…
Comment by ayako — 5/8/2008 @ 2:56 am
There’s plenty of great Japanese music on http://last.fm.
http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/AJICO/similarartists would probably be a good place to start.
Comment by Mark — 5/8/2008 @ 3:46 am
Sadistic Mika Band - try their Live London recording for starters.
Comment by akikana — 5/8/2008 @ 8:44 am
I love Miho HATORI
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=ISw4Q-z1uPQ
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=laOLkCSiDUY
Comment by Daisuke MITSUHASHI — 5/10/2008 @ 7:02 pm