kenleewrites in 日本

Hiro and his Epoca Nova.

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The guitarist Yoshihiro Hosoda, a good friend of mine, leading his first live gig with Kazuo Yoshida, Satoshi Sano and guest vocalist TOYONO.

He released his first solo mini album titled “Bossa Azul”. One of his songs 「百名の波」was inspired by the「百名ビーチ」beach in Okinawa.

Here’s a video of him and his mentor, Mikio Watanabe, playing Mais Para La at Praça 11 a while back.

With the exception of the keyboard and mouse, I don’t play any musical instrument. Always in admiration of people who do.

Somehow mine happens to be “Don’t Let Me Down”. It also happens to be one of my power songs. ^^.

It’s no secret. I’m a hikki fan. So I was delighted to find out about her new single and PV (MTV) from fellow blogger Yonasu. From what I’ve read, it seems that she directed the whole video herself! I like it. Reminds me of 光. I like that video too by the way. I don’t know, there’s just something very natural about it. It made cleaning dishes fun. ^^.

Although the name of the song is Goodbye Happiness, it’s not really all that sad. It’s going straight into my playlist.

She’s going on a break after the release of her latest best-of album Utada Hikaru SINGLE COLLECTION VOL.2. I wish her well and hope she gets a good rest and recharge.

You can check out the song and video on her YouTube Channel.

There are references to many of her earlier songs in the video. How many can you spot? I’ll start. For example, the yellow armchair is from Automatic. See any others?

Nothing to do with Japan, but this video is hilarious! Thought I’ll just post it here too.

How many languages can you recognize in the video? ^^.