Ever Heard of Pizzicato Five?

Ever heard of this Japanese group?  I stumbled upon this video of theirs, and found it to be awesome.  To me the video looks like its sporting some 60′s theme, at least some time before 1996, when it was made.  Overall, the video surprised me because it was simple but yet different.  The Pizzicato Five have been in surprising amount of things, all the way from Austin Powers to a Microsoft presentation at E3!.  Be sure to check out their wikipedia page. Here’s the video, enjoy!

Yodobashi Kamera

Hello everyone, sorry that there haven’t been any posts lately.  I have to just say what everybody says, I was busy. Well, I have a quick one with another youtube video!  I just love this song.  Apparently it is a song from a classic Japanese commercial for the Yodobashi Kamera, (Yodobashi Camera) store.  Somebody I knew was telling about the song, and I was able to dig it up on youtube, so here it is. Enjoy.

Pink Lady and Sugar Babe

Just recently I got Tsuji Ayano’s newest album “Cover Girl 2.” With this album, as with “Cover Girl” (its predecessor), Tsuji re-does hit Japanese songs bringing her own spin to each of them. On this album she re-does a song called “Nagisa no Sinbad” which is a song by a 1970′s group called “Pink Lady.” The song is great, and the video is really fun. The song sold over a million copies, and stayed at number one for eight weeks. Tsuji did another song from the 70′s, it’s called DOWNTOWN done by a group called “Sugar Babe.” Another great song. I really was missing out on some great music from the 1970′s in Japan. So catchy. Enjoy!

note: Tuji Ayano’s first name is Ayano, in Japanese the first name comes last.

Nagisa no Sinbad by Pink Lady

DOWNTOWN by Sugar Babe

Tsuji Ayano – Sweet Happy Birthday

A video from the best album ever!

Kotoringo

One of my new favorite Japanese music artists is Kotoringo. I found out about her by the iTunes Japan free single of the week.

Not sure is this is the real video for her song, but its a good song anyway! enjoy!