最後にライブをしたのは9月頃かな。
それ以降は何だかボヤッとしていて、体調が悪かったせいか、、、なんか大変だった気持ちと焦る思いが強かった。
でも、大変な時は助けてくれる人がいて、その人達のおかげで今はまたそれなりに元気になって、自発的に動ける気がする。
何かしなきゃ、このまま内向的になる一方だと思うし、無理にでも何か楽しい事と思ってライブをブッキング。
2月6日に渋谷の Star Loungeで Lo-Fiでお世話になっているサポートメンバーを中心としたバンド Sshg! (シーっ！) でライブをします。
ツインギター、(Ogawa) Sho + (Fujiyama) Shu
ドラム、(Murakami) Hiroki
ベース・ボーカル、(Hirose) Goh
メンバー名の頭文字を使ってバンド名を、、、ありがちなパターンでごめんなさい。
--------------- English -------------------
My last show with Lo-Fi was in September 2013. Since then... to be honest things have been really down-hill. Everything was a blur and all I remember was the sick feeling I had of being nervous like crazy most of the time.
Anyway, when I was having a tough time, many people helped me out and that's why I feel so much better now after a busy year end. (Feeling busy doing nothing but panicking rather....!)
First it was out of the blue that I decided to book my own show. But now I feel it's appropriate that I play my own music again... after this long silence.
Well... long for me at least.
So on February 6th 2014, I'll be doing a show with the usual support members for Lo-Fi at the Star Lounge in Shibuya.
We called the band "Sshg!" pronounced "Shh!" ... yes very generically named with the first letters of our names.
Hope to share more about the event soon.
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Jan 10, 2014
Aug 6, 2009
LIVE STREET PAINT 7/17 VIDEO
(check for English at the bottom!)
大見さんに制作頂きました「渋アコ」のパフォーマンス映像。
７月１７日に渋谷のマークシティーエリア／中央街で開催した薬物乱用防止のイベント。
３角の柱になったキャンバスはそのエリアで合流する道と面を合わせて、
人々の表情や感情の多面性を表現し「自分を発見する」事をテーマに音も描くペインターに合わせてLo-Fiの曲とフリーにミックスしながら展開していくパフォーマンスです。
渋谷の中央街はネットワークも強く、様々のお店のご協力を頂きました。
是非直接お店もチェック！
【渋谷中央街マップ】 http://shibuyachuogai.com/map.html
●つくしんぼ(坂入さん)
●千両(史郎さん＆鈴木理事長)
●たけや(まことさん)
●BAR IRIE(入江さん)
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This vid is an EXCELLENT video edit done by director and videographer Ohme Yoshihiro-san.
A very good independent artist. He did most of the camera work and all of the editing.
We painted this performance on a triangular pillar set in the middle of the street beneath the MARK CITY building adjacent from the Shibuya-CHUUOUGAI. The Chuougai is an area of Shibuya with many mom-and-pop shops that have been around , some for more than 30 years.
Now with the really fast changing pace of Tokyo, that's a real long time.
The local shops are places where the store keepers will learn your name and face if you go there a couple of times....
They really helped us get the stage and gear together to make this event happen.
The main purpose of the SHIBU-ACO painting event was to help promote prevention of drug abuse.
This was a pretty big problem in Shibuya a couple of years back where you had dealers all over the streets of Shibuya selling legal drugs. Legal but deadly nonetheless.
Anyway I don't want to go into a long discussion about what is right and what is wrong when it come to the topic of drugs, but we depicted and played music that connected with finding inner strength and finding out who you are.
This was our way of expressing how you don't need a chemical cocktail to bring out the best in you.
Thanks to all that came to check it out!
May 31, 2009
long time no blog
It's been ages since I've written my last blog.
I've been twittering but not really getting in touch with my fans or my friends in
any other way. It was yesterday that I saw a good friend for dinner, and I haven't done
that for a real long time.
Things are going well. Or should I say as well as they could be considering that the
release date for the Lo-Fi album has been delayed by over two months.
So what's been delaying the release??
I dunno. I think because I'm a perfectionist.
Or maybe because I didn't have a band until the beginning of this year.
For those who've been able to attend the recent Lo-Fi gigs, they're well aware that the band
structure has drastically changed. Right now the official line up for the Lo-Fi band is
me (5/Goh Hirose), Yosh (Ogoshi Yoshifumi), Nori (Yoshikawa Noriko).
I've picked up the bass as my main instrument along with the guitar and vocals.
Quengo was a good solid bassist for Lo-Fi for over a year, but the direction the band was
heading didn't really seem to click. It was a hard call but I decided to play the bass myself.
So now we're heading in a new direction and a lot of the songs that were incomplete for
the recording stage are now finished and in production.
It's surprising but when I write my songs I start with the drums and the bass.
Almost all my songs are written on a certain rhythm and then mixed with a bass line,
and then I add a melody or theme. So I guess it's kinda natural that I'm playing the bass
for Lo-Fi. I'm sure we'll still have guest musicians to add another dimension to our
live performances still.
We're going to include somewhere around 10 songs in the new album, but we've still got
around 15 songs in pre-production stages so we need to figure out which ones make the draft.
I wish all of them could make it. Well in someway or another I'm sure you'll hear all the songs
that we've written. They may become JAM themes in our gigs or they might be used for
a jingle somewhere... I don't know.
Lo-Fi has one gig coming up in June. On the 17th in Aoyama at a place called
TSUKIMIRU.
http://www.moonromantic.com/ （note: a small ad is gonna pop up when you click the URL...）
We're planning to have some VJing and it should be a good chance to see / hear the new Lo-Fi vibe.
Since we did pretty well with our old album a while ago, I feel that I've got to do better than that old recording, and that's been bugging me for a while. However now that I listen back to our new material, I have no idea what I was worried about.
Our new album is unique and the sound quality is high. I guess it was worth the wait.
Tonite I'm on my way to a SHIBUYA ACOUSTIC EVENT meeting.
It's a "No-Drug" campaign that we are taking part in. Since it's ACOUSTIC we're gonna
whip out the acoustic repertoire for Lo-Fi. When I have details I'll update all of you on it.
I've just given up on doing all my blogs in Japanese. It just takes too long!!!
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