Mar 4, 2010

HOME MADE Kazoku Meets noanowa

I’ve heard of HOME MADE Kazoku, and even encountered a few of their songs in passing, but I really wasn’t very interested when I heard they would be releasing another album, CIRCLE, this week. Then the tracklist came out, and ended up on a particular band’s website while I was visiting, and I became EXTREMELY interested. Why? Because one of the songs,... read more

Feb 28, 2010

Too Much Talk, Not Enough Music

Pretend you’re walking down the sidewalk, minding your own business, when a shady looking character in a trenchcoat walks up to you with a clipboard. Despite your first reaction, which is probably to turn around and walk quickly in the other direction, you decide to stick around and listen to this guy. He tells you he is doing a survey–more specifically, a music... read more

Feb 25, 2010

It’s About Time

Welcome to 23ji no ongaku! If you’ve arrived here and are wondering where unchained went, you might want to read “I Broke My Blog,” a revealing entry where I describe the exact stupidities that led me to delete a major chunk of my former blog and basically mess up whatever plans I had to gently retire my it before introducing a new one. (The tl;dr: I’m... read more

Feb 24, 2010

I Broke My Blog

I didn’t really mean to close unchained when I did. It just sort of happened. I was really planning on doing things differently, on announcing the blog’s demise and then quietly removing it (only to come back triumphant in the spring with a brand new take on things)… But things never go the way I plan, mostly because I am a colossal idiot. Let me explain. On... read more

Feb 23, 2010

Ten Years of Japanese Music

Somewhere between the years 1999 and 2000, I discovered Japanese music. When I had my first laugh at Hironobu Kageyama and the silliness of his Dragonball Z music, or sighed the first sigh at Orikasa Ai’s soothing ballads, I don’t think I realized just how important those moments would be, further on in my life. At the age of thirteen, I don’t think I could... read more