Mar 11, 2010

From the Archives: The Pinnacle of a SPECTACLE

In September 2009, harmonic pop group noanowa released their first album, SPECTACLE. Here’s a look back at my review from the archives of my old blog, unchained. Yukko is as talented as she is adorable. The cover of noanowa’s first album, SPECTACLE, describes the group (in English!) as “an orchestra oriented band that draws a line from J-pop. Yukko [...]... read more

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 27, 2010

I Don’t Get Kpop

There, I said it. While everyone else is sitting over there listening to Korean pop music and apparently enjoying the hell out of it, I’m perched on my little chair in front of my desk with a blank expression on my face, wondering what’s wrong with me. I just don’t get it. … well, that isn’t quite it. For starters, I do listen to Korean music in... 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