Just less than an hour ago, the music video for Yoru no Odoriko, which releases tomorrow, was put up on Victor Entertainment's Youtube Channel! Please check it out below!
The director of this PV is Tanaka Yusuke, who previously worked on the award-winning "Bach no Senritsu wo Yoru ni Kiita Sei desu." music video. The styling and creative direction was helmed by no other than Kitazawa "momo" Hisashi who has been indispensable to Sakanaction's works.
With the thick traditional-style makeup and kimonos, the band members and the two dancers performing at the foothills of Mount Fuji, it is a music video with both impact and a surreal feel.
In addition, the release commemorative Ustream (link) to be held on 29 August 10PM JST has also been revealed to have director Tanaka and creative director Kitazawa as guests. The choreographer of the two dancing women in the music video, Hananomoto Kai, will be appearing as well in this talk session.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Saturday, August 25, 2012
sakanaction to appear on Music Station!
Airing on 31 August, the Music Station music program will feature sakanaction!
The popular Asahi TV program that airs every week at 8PM JST will have sakanaction perform their latest single "Yoru no Odoriko" on next week's show.
sakanaction appeared for the first time on Music Station last year, 22 July, to perform "Bach no Senritsu wo Yoru ni Kiita Sei desu." Since then they have not had the opportunity to appear on the program again, even when "Boku to Hana" was released.
An appearance on Music Station again was hoped for by many fans, as performances on television will help the band to be known and it helps the sales as well. Thus far, Music Station is the only music program which has had Sakanaction on it.
Check out the performance list for 31 August below! (May not in performance order.)
The popular Asahi TV program that airs every week at 8PM JST will have sakanaction perform their latest single "Yoru no Odoriko" on next week's show.
sakanaction appeared for the first time on Music Station last year, 22 July, to perform "Bach no Senritsu wo Yoru ni Kiita Sei desu." Since then they have not had the opportunity to appear on the program again, even when "Boku to Hana" was released.
An appearance on Music Station again was hoped for by many fans, as performances on television will help the band to be known and it helps the sales as well. Thus far, Music Station is the only music program which has had Sakanaction on it.
Check out the performance list for 31 August below! (May not in performance order.)
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
sakanaction to release official band score books
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For the first time ever, sakanaction will be releasing official band score books. There will be 2 books released one month apart from each other.
TItled SAKANA ENSEMBLE 2007-2009 and SAKANA ENSEMBLE 2010-2011, the books featuring the music scores of sakanaction's songs will release on 12 Sep 2012 and 12 Aug 2012 respectively.
Update: You can currently order the book at either Amazon Japan or HMV Japan.
Tracklist after the cut.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
"Sake no Sakana" Mini Screenshot Gallery
Yesterday night, it was the "Sake no Sakana" Ustream.
The two guys played games and answered questions from fans, and had their usual acoustic guitar singing corner, entertaining and indulging all the fans viewing.
The mini setlist for the singing section was:
1. Fukurou - Yamaguchi
2. Film - Hoshino
3. Boku to Hana - Yamaguchi
4. Yume no Soto e - Hoshino
Oh, by the end of the program, they had hit over 70,000 combined total views, and the hashtag #sakenosakana was the top Twitter trend in Japan.
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And now, on to...Gallery - Lots of Yamaguchi and Hoshino fooling around. Enjoy!
Side note: Ugh, didn't capture the part where Yamaguchi was showing off his toned stomach muscles ._.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
"Sake no Sakana" returns!
About seven months have passed since the previous "Sake no Sakana" on New Year's Day, and now it has been announced that Yamaguchi Ichiro and Hoshino Gen will once again get together to do the Ustream program!
This Tuesday, 24th July, at 9PM JST, they'll stream on Victor Music Ustream Channel. This time, in addition to the two just talking, there will be games during the show and also a Q&A corner for fans. The questions will be taken from Twitter. Fans can send the questions by mentioning @VictorMusic while using the hashtag #sakenosakana.
Fans have been anticipating the next "Sake no Sakana" for awhile, and just a couple of weeks ago, Yamaguchi and Hoshino were tweeting each other for fun and brought up "Sake no Sakana" and how they would like to do it again. They did a mini version of "Sake no Sakana" on Twitter, by playing shiritori with each other with the topic of "things you like". The game was cut off as Yamaguchi was tweeting during his break at a Sakanaction recording session and he was required back to work.
This Tuesday, 24th July, at 9PM JST, they'll stream on Victor Music Ustream Channel. This time, in addition to the two just talking, there will be games during the show and also a Q&A corner for fans. The questions will be taken from Twitter. Fans can send the questions by mentioning @VictorMusic while using the hashtag #sakenosakana.
Fans have been anticipating the next "Sake no Sakana" for awhile, and just a couple of weeks ago, Yamaguchi and Hoshino were tweeting each other for fun and brought up "Sake no Sakana" and how they would like to do it again. They did a mini version of "Sake no Sakana" on Twitter, by playing shiritori with each other with the topic of "things you like". The game was cut off as Yamaguchi was tweeting during his break at a Sakanaction recording session and he was required back to work.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Yoru no Odoriko full tracklist revealed!
Freshly announced minutes ago, the full contents of Sakanaction's 7th single, Yoru no Odoriko, has been revealed!
Besides title track "Yoru no Odoriko", a new track called "multiple exposure" as well as Sakanaction's own remix of previous single "Boku to Hana", will be included in the CD. "multiple exposure" is a song that was approached with a chillout sound and its lyrics talks about realistic perspectives towards modern society.
The limited edition version comes with a DVD that includes selected live performances from the rehearsal for the final leg of SAKANAQUARIUM 2012 ZEPP ALIVE tour on 19th June. It was specially recorded in a way that would let viewers feel like they are actually experiencing the live.
Tracklist
CD
01. Yoru no Odoriko [夜の踊り子]
02. multiple exposure
03. Boku to Hana (sakanaction Remix) [僕と花 (sakanaction Remix)]
DVD (limited edition only)
SAKANAQUARIUM 2012 "ZEPP ALIVE ALONE"
- Boku to Hana [僕と花]
- Boku to Hana (sakanaction Remix) [僕と花 (sakanaction Remix)]
- Native Dancer [ネイティブダンサー]
- Identity [アイデンティティ]
- Rookie [ルーキー]
SAKANAQUARIUM 2012 "ZEPP ALIVE"~
- Yoru no Odoriko [夜の踊り子]
What do you think of the contents? Are you excited? I've already pre-ordered my copy yesterday!
Besides title track "Yoru no Odoriko", a new track called "multiple exposure" as well as Sakanaction's own remix of previous single "Boku to Hana", will be included in the CD. "multiple exposure" is a song that was approached with a chillout sound and its lyrics talks about realistic perspectives towards modern society.
The limited edition version comes with a DVD that includes selected live performances from the rehearsal for the final leg of SAKANAQUARIUM 2012 ZEPP ALIVE tour on 19th June. It was specially recorded in a way that would let viewers feel like they are actually experiencing the live.
Tracklist
CD
01. Yoru no Odoriko [夜の踊り子]
02. multiple exposure
03. Boku to Hana (sakanaction Remix) [僕と花 (sakanaction Remix)]
DVD (limited edition only)
SAKANAQUARIUM 2012 "ZEPP ALIVE ALONE"
- Boku to Hana [僕と花]
- Boku to Hana (sakanaction Remix) [僕と花 (sakanaction Remix)]
- Native Dancer [ネイティブダンサー]
- Identity [アイデンティティ]
- Rookie [ルーキー]
SAKANAQUARIUM 2012 "ZEPP ALIVE"~
- Yoru no Odoriko [夜の踊り子]
What do you think of the contents? Are you excited? I've already pre-ordered my copy yesterday!
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Yamaguchi Ichiro produces new song for SMAP!
Today, it was revealed that Sakanaction's frontman Yamaguchi Ichiro is the composer and lyricist behind the title song of the new single of longtime-popular Johnny's boyband SMAP!
The new single is called "Moment" and will be released on 1 August 2012. In addition, the song is also the theme song for Japanese television station Tokyo Broadcasting Station (TBS)'s telecast of the 2012 London Olympics. This program is co-hosted by SMAP member Nakai Masahiro.
In short, the song will be getting a lot of publicity. You can hear a preview of it here, starting around 0:48. The video will be taken down soon so hear it while you can!
It's amazing to have Yamaguchi producing the song for SMAP. This marks the second time he has worked directly with SMAP, but this time the song will be more prominent because it is a single. Previously, he wrote and composed "Magic Time" in for SMAP's 2010 album "We are SMAP".
Of course, not forgetting that Sakanaction was behind the theme song for the recently-concluded drama 37sai de Isha ni Natta which starred SMAP's Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, it seems that record label Victor Entertainment has decided to push Sakanaction by giving them these opportunities (the two bands are signed to Victor). Let's hope that Sakanaction will go even further!
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