#MOEKA SHIOTSUKA

[jinsei-pika-pika]

#Moeka Shiotsuka #塩塚モエカ #羊文学 #Hitsujibungaku #Music #Fashion #Style #Photography

[wookshi]

Moeka Shiotsuka | 塩塚モエカ

#moeka shiotsuka #塩塚モエカ

[fyeahcindie]

This song always puts a smile on my face. =D Lyrics HERE.

Before viewing, I need to warn you that the end of the song has a lots of flashing lights starting at 3:40.

LÜCY and her band during 2022 神仙組合 at ZEPP New Taipei. They are joined by co-writer Moeka Shiotsuka from the band 羊文学 Hitsujibungaku.

 Links: YouTube,  Facebook,  StreetVoice,  SoundCloud,  Spotify. (Some of her links have changed a few times in the last year or so)

#Lücy Liao #LÜCY #羊文学 Hitsujibungaku #Moeka Shiotsuka #photosensitive epilepsy warning #2022 神仙組合 #joanne yeh #taiwan #japan #ZEPP New Taipei #music video #Youtube

[luuurien]

Hitsujibungaku - our hope

(Indie Rock, Dream Pop, Shoegaze)

Heading down a more introspective and slow-paced road after 2020’s driving and intense POWERS, our hope sees the Japanese rock trio at their most subdued and blurry-eyed place to date. Though these songs take longer to settle, the impact of Hitsujibungaku’s sensitive dream pop has only grown exponentially.

☆☆☆☆½

There are quite a few things that separate Hitsujibungaku from many of their dream pop peers, but the biggest one is patience. Where much of the genre prides itself on immediately sweeping you up with goopy synth pads and guitars slathered in any and every effect pedal the band could get their hands on, Hitsujibungaku opts for a kind of slowness and contemplation more in line with sensitive indie rock or even dramatic post-rock at times, willing to evoke only the outlines of an atmosphere and what might lie inside it. That fogginess is what drives their latest release, our hope to such immense success, heading down a more introspective and slow-paced road after 2020’s driving and intense POWERS, searching for a sense of clarity through the blur of lurching, distorted guitars and the occasional intoxicating pop song everything Hitsujibungaku needs to make our hope their most heartfelt and well-rounded album to date despite the challenges making a dream pop album so vulnerable and unvarnished presents for them. our hope is Hitsujibungaku taking shoegaze and dream pop fundamentals and pointing them inwards, hints of dissonance and tension taking the band to new heights and revealing new skills for them as a trio. The tempos are slower and the compositions less dense, but our hope still has lots going on inside its patient dream pop tunes. hopi find itself in a tender 6/8 waltz driven by a hypnotic guitar lead and Moeka Shiotsuka’s reserved vocals, blooming in the chorus before slowly sliding back into the soft, intimate cove of the verses, but even bulkier highlights like パーティーはすぐそこ and ワンダー have a ring of fog surrounding them, clean but slightly overdriven guitars covering Shiotsuka’s reminisces on old memories and past loves in a perfectly fitting haze. Where POWERS’ euphoria occasionally took on a noise pop sensibility with fuzzier guitars and more explosive crescendos to contrast Shiotsuka’s restrained performances, our hope opts for a more homogeneous atmosphere, the driving chorus of 光るとき revealing itself behind each steady verse while unhurried highlights like 金色 and 予感 revel in their midtempo grooves and liquid guitars, our hope navigating less concrete roads than Hitsujibungaku’s previous projects but hitting all the same dopamine reserves. It can take time to acclimate to the mellow, often understated nature of these songs (in one case, くだらない, it even causes the band’s light to dim a considerable amount), our hope’s transition to softspoken indie rock never takes away the instrumental strength Histujibungaku’s music flourishes from. our hope also brings along with it a darkness Hitsujibungaku’s music usually only speaks of, injecting into the sound of their music and embracing bits of harmonic tension and textural coldness to match the album’s themes of faded love and the bleakness of the present without that romance. 金色’s gangly guitar leads sit loosely under a perfectly drowsy vocal performance and a sharp chromatic descend in the post-chorus, and even the sweeter back-end highlight OOPARTS pairs its muted synthpop verses with bursts of noisy guitar and a key change in the song’s second half, Hitsujibungaku holding onto their signature beauty but reconfiguring the ways they go about bringing it to life. In turn, the album is a bit of a slow ride overall - especially considering its near hour runtime - but our hope clearly isn’t aiming for an all-thrills experience, and the unhurried nature of the album brings out some of the warmest and most definitive tracks the band has put out yet. It’s different, but it’s always a joy. More restrained but just as impactful than anything they’ve done so far, our hope paints a delicate, gauzy picture of Hitsujibungaku exploring the sensitive outer edges of their sharp but colorful indie rock through the extra space afforded by slowing down and letting the music breathe at its own pace. The reward of listening to our hope is getting a deeper look into the trio as instrumentalists, how Yurika Kasai’s bass drifts in and out of sync with Shiotsuka’s guitar work and how vital a dynamic drummer like Hiroa Fudaka is to the band’s sound, the three of them as adept at bubblegum noise pop as they are gentle moments of lyrical intimacy and musical warmth. It’s not their most exciting album, but by the end of its divine hour, our hope ends up the most heartwarming and grounded release of theirs yet and further proof of their excellence within modern indie.

This review is part of the ALL I MISSED: 2022, where I review all the albums I didn't get to from last year.

#hitsujibungaku #our hope #self-released #dream pop #indie pop #indie rock #pop #rock #shoegaze #2022 #9/10 #album review #album reviews #2022 albums #music review #all i missed 2022 #luuurien

[kuuhakunojikan]

My precious band called "Supercar"

Have you ever heard of the legendary band Supercar? (See Wikipedia for more details.) Anyway, they are definitely a legendary band for music lovers. What was alternative rock in the early days changed more and more to electronic winds at the behest of composer Koji Nakamura, and the band eventually disbanded.

First track on the album. The intro of the song is already captivating. If a demo of this song was sent to the label, they would sign it immediately.

The second track on the album, which sounds a bit like cream soda. I think it's about a fragile man who cares for his girlfriend.

Miki Furukawa, who normally plays bass, is the main vocalist. As I write this, I realise that there may be a connection between the lyrics and (Am I) confusing you? I mean, it's Supercar's first album, and cream soda is also about cars.

The lyrics of this song are amazing. The lyrics of this song are amazing, because the entire lyrics were on the resume of a class at the university I attended. The professor was about 40 years old and from Aomori, so he was from the generation directly hit by Supercars.

I would like to ask him why this song is called PLANET if I could meet him. Reading the lyrics, it doesn't really have a 'PLANET feel' to it.

↑"cream soda", which led me to meet Supercar, and four of my favourite songs from the album "Three Out Change". It's only their debut album, so it's still very much in the rock vein.

I was born in 2003, so how did I come across this band, which broke up in 2005? The story goes back to when I was in high school. I got hooked on Radwimps when I was in junior high school, and by the time I was a freshman in high school I was listening to Radwimps almost exclusively. I listened to the same songs over and over again, thinking of that girl I liked.

In high school, I joined the light music club and met a friend, who loved BUMP OF CHICKEN and taught me about many bands, one of which was Hitsujibungaku.

I started listening to Hitsujibungaku and after a while I came across a song called 'Tenkiyohou'. The song is the theme song for a film called After School Cream Soda Days (director: Yuka Eda). I have a tendency to go to the bottom of the YouTube comments section and find comments that offend me and think about them, so of course I scrolled down to the bottom of the comments section for this music video as well. I found a lot of comments on there saying that it reminded them of a supercar, and I thought to myself, "What's a supercar?" I thought, and searched for 'supercar' on YouTube. Then, sure enough, the intro to this song sounds exactly like 'cream soda'. Of course Moeka Shiotsuka (Gt., Vo.) of Hitsujibungaku knew Supercar and wrote this song. Because this band looks like Supercar. (A few years later, Hitsujibungaku released a song called 'Lucky', similar to Supercar's 'Lucky').

So this is how I came across Supercar, but in the end I just like alternative rock bands. My latest recommendations are Bungei Heaven and a band called kurayamisaka. They are really good.

↑Love the vocalist's voice.

↑When I listened to this album through for the first time, I was really impressed.

As mentioned above, Supercar changed to electronic music as they got closer to breaking up. (Can you call it techno?) To illustrate this change in trend, some songs from the period when the band sounded less like a band are also presented.

The intro is the most uplifting in the world, and the music video is very cool too.

It's the theme song for the film "Ping Pong", and possibly the most famous song from Supercar.

I want it to be the bgm of the funeral. Then when I die, Supercar will still be talked about.

There are so many songs that I haven't listened to them all. (Supercar is awesome!)! I'm writing this text on the impulse of "Supercars are awesome!").

#Youtube

[jpopstreaming]

🆕🎶 「 harunosyura feat. SHIOTSUKA MOEKA 」 new single by STRANGE REITARO, 塩塚モエカ is now available worldwide! 🌐 Listen now and discover new sounds from Japan on our weekly updated playlist 🎧 https://spoti.fi/3lgjH73

#STRANGE REITARO #塩塚モエカ #Japanese music #Jmusic #Jpop

[catria-whitewing]

#SoundCloud #music #⮿Solo❁ #Anime #opening #heike monogatari #the heike story #Hikaru Toki #Moeka Shiotsuka

[junname]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDye94IJhyy/?igshid=1eddapystnwyb

#moeka shiotsuka #shiotsuka moeka #ikea #upload #model #fashion #photography #magazine #make up #style #beauty #girl #japanese model #ikea japan

[jrockexplosion]

Shuta Hasunuma Philharmonic Orchestra- “HOLIDAY feat. Moeka Shiotsuka”

#Shuta Hasunuma Philharmonic Orchestra #蓮沼執太フィル #MOEKA SHIOTSUKA #PV #MV #JAPAN #JROCK #J-ROCK #*

[a-chana]

羊文学

#羊文学 #music #Spotify #hitsujibungaku #塩塚モエカ #shiotsuka moeka

[jinsei-pika-pika]

#Moeka Shiotsuka #塩塚モエカ #Miu Miu #levi's #Fashion #Music #Photography #Denim #羊文学

[suiyoubis]

xavier — kyuutai feat. shiotsuka moeka

#xavier #塩塚モエカ #shiotsuka moeka #羊文学 #hitsujibungaku #jrock #music

[recentanimenews]

The Heike Story TV Anime Posts Creditless Versions of Yamada's Gorgeous OP / ED

  With The Heike Story TV anime being released weekly on streaming services in Japan and around the world ahead of its Fuji TV broadcast, the anime series produced at Science SARU under the direction of A Silent Voice director Naoko Yamada had creditless versions of its opening and ending posted to the Asmik Ace YouTube channel yesterday.

  The opening features "Hikaru Toki (When It Shines)" from the band Hitsujibungaku with Moeka Shiotsuka singing the theme song with agraph featuring hip-hop artist ANI from Scha Dara Parr performing "unified perspective" for the ending.

  Opening:

  Ending:

  Naoko Yamada directs The Heike Story at Science SARU (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken), with longtime collaborator Reiko Yoshida penning the scripts, and Kensuke Ushio doing the music. All three creators worked together on the award-winning A Silent Voice together at Kyoto Animation. Funimation describes the series as such:

  A young orphan named Biwa is taken in by the powerful Taira Clan—also known as the Heike—after their leader witnesses her extraordinary psychic abilities.

  Unfortunately, what she predicts is a future of bloodshed, violence, and civil war. Inspired by the 12th-century epic tale Heike Monogatari.

  The Heike Story premiered its first episode on September 15 on the Fuji on Demand service and on Funimation the same day ahead of the TV premiere in January 2022, the series streams weekly every Wednesday.

  Source: The Heike Story official website

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs the YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram. 

By: Daryl Harding

#Anime #News #Latest in Anime News by Crunchyroll!

[afternoonspeaker-2019]

https://soundcloud.com/hizshiotsuka

#音樂 #日本 #樂團

[enpitoroys]

"Concert: Moeka Shiotsuka" を YouTube で見る

#Youtube