Text by MOMUS
Somewhere I have photos of a young Kumi Okamoto playing trumpet on the beach at
Kamakura. I'd trekked out to the Pacific resort, with its temples and surfers
and mysterious hills, to see her band Crazy Curl playing in a temporary marquee
erected on the beach. She'd sent me her debut EP, and I'd really liked the
breezy acoustic pop music with its expliit references to él Records and
Shibuya-kei. My girlfriend at the time came along grumpily ; I think Kumi's
short skirts and ingenue manner made her "dangerous".
The next time I saw Kumi she was in Europe, in Paris, hanging out with a totally
different crowd. She'd shaken off the retro-90s references and was now making
experimental music with a group of musicians around the labels Clapping Music
and Active Suspension. If the él and Trattoria labels had inspired her to make
backward-looking pastiche music in Japan, this new crowd was edging Kumi towards
something experimental and futuristic, some intriguing mixture of girlpop,
microsound and glitch folk. She moved into the old Chinatown apartment of one of
my best friends, Florence Manlik, and financed herself by working in a bakery
and various clothes shops.
Kumi's music evolved through the decade, and the experiments led her (and
collaborators like o.lamm) back full circle to a pure pop sound. Kumi may have
become more daring and more fashionable in her Paris years, but she's still
adorable, still an ingenue, and still highly dangerous. (By Momus)
J'ai participé à cette compilation de doki doki !
I REGRET NOT HAVING KISSED YOU
OUT SOON! / hopefully dec.07. Double vinyle, gatefold cover, 33 rpm. Avec/with :
CHRIS CLUB / KUMI SOLO / KING Q4 / FELIX KUBIN / ANNE LAPLANTINE / POPPOPFALSE feat. NANANA / A*CLASS / KINK GONG / KAP BAMBINO / B.I.A.S / AMBITRONIX feat. OLIVIER CADIOT / SERGE ADAM / DORINE_MURAILLE feat. CHLOÉ DELAUME / WHITE TAHINA feat. XAVIER BOUSSIRON / TUJIKO NORIKO / DON NINO / CLAIRE DOYON / SISTER IODINE / LOKAI / MICHIKO KUSAKI
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et ça aussi NOTHING FANCY VOLUME 8 !!
nouveau clip avec le coq sportif réalisé par BORN TO FiLM !!!
Kumi Okamoto est connue pour son travail au sein du groupe the Konki Duet
(Active Suspension), ou du duo tokyoite et francophile Crazy Curl (Channel
Pro). Aujourd'hui, elle se lance aussi en solo, histoire de montrer ce que
son songwriting délicat et fragile a à offrir. Pop, pop, pop, trois fois
pop! (par o.lamm)
Kumi Okamoto has been previously known for a work as a member of the sweet'n'sour girl pop trio The Konki Duet (Active Suspension) and of the Tokyo based Francophile duet Crazy Curl (Channel Pro). Today, she takes the dive for a solo career, in order to demonstrate what her delicate, fragile and mind-drilling songwriting has to offer. Pop, pop, three times pop! (by o.lamm)
"More Frightened" & "Mantequilla", extraits en avant-première du nouvel album de CandyCash (trip-hop/nu-jazz), en écoute dès aujourd'hui...! Sortie nationale le 01.09.2009 (Autoprod/Anticraft)
Composed by members from the french bands Daroc, Music Automatic, & We Are Terrorists, Y is the new Boxon signature; and the Zephyr "EP" (ref. Boxon011) is their first release (OUT NOW in digital).
Hello, Winter records is launching a new theme-based compilation (vol 3) and invites you to a musical composition. The best tracks will be selected in order to be part of the new cd.
So, for our third compilation we want you to use the 5 musical notes of "Close encounters of the third kind" (composed by john williams). These are : RE MI DO DO (octave lower) and SOL
Those notes can be the main theme of the track or not. We must here it once at least. You can whisper it, sing it, play it with any instrument you want. You can decline it.
The deadline is mid-july.
We can't wait to listen to your propositions and choose the most interesting ones.
Hugs from france,
Winter records.
ps : send us your wave or mp3 at winterrecords@gmail.com
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