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Akihabara Sounds (part 2)

July 12th, 2007 No Comments

Here’s some more audio and pictures from my time in Akihabara, featuring some short clips of a few performers that happened to be singing in the street at the time, along with a few related YouTube links.

The Akiba music scene is kind of interesting - although at the moment it’s not particularly accessible to someone who speaks no Japanese and lives on the other side of the planet, such as myself.

I was meandering through the bystanders whilst recording, so the stereo image in some parts of my audio is a bit random.

Nozomi from Little Non singing 「あきらめないで」 (”Akirame Nai De”). Here’s a fairly energetic performance with the rest of the band: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-slBVyUZJeY.

Download: littlenon_akihabara_05-05-2007.mp3 (1m57s 3.58 MB)

Yuuki singing 「一輪の花」 (”Ichirin no Hana”) from her mini-album 「ゆぅきのうた」 (”Yuukinouta”).

Download: yuuki_akihabara_05-05-2007.mp3 (0m57s 1.75 MB)

Tomori from Gang Bang Party singing “Happy Sunday”. Here’s the full song on YouTube with the rest of the band: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHk0t-dB-nw.

Download: gpb_tomori_akihabara_05-05-2007.mp3 (0m35s 1.08 MB)

In the background of the GPB clip above you can can hear Akiko from Yumeiro Monster singing “For You”. I don’t have any audio, but here’s a video of the song recorded at the same time I was there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMsIXZNyZBE.

Whilst roaming around Akihabara I also happened to encounter Pure Romance (if waiting at the same crossing can be called an encounter) who were promoting their debut single at the time. Here’s the PV (featuring dance-along wotagei instructions): www.youtube.com/watch?v=oupZqTqjZyQ.