Friday, May 11, 2007

玉姬

一次巧合在verycd上看到了户川纯的音乐下载。不得不说,发布者对对这个日本女歌手评价极高。忘记当时是怎么个情况了,我就莫名其妙的下了2个专辑‘玉姫様’和‘極東慰安唱歌’。从驴子上DOWN下来後也没导入进iTune,放了有一阵子。五一长假结束後,整理音乐时试听了一下,结果——你也猜得到我要说什么——一发不可收拾……
下面有歌姬的介绍(英文),及演出的视频。户川纯现场的表演和录音室作品简直大相径庭(就这首歌来说),live中high得不行,声嘶力竭,蹦蹦跳跳,活像小食尸鬼。其人声音极为萝莉,估计我的一些朋友应该会喜欢。
Verycd 下载地址 http://lib.verycd.com/2007/04/22/0000147515.html
Togawa Jun (戸川純) is a Japanese singer and musician born in 1961. She began her career in the early 1980s as an unusual idol singer (or possibly a parody of an idol singer) with the single "Virgin Blues". It was soon apparent that her eccentric personality, surreal or disturbing lyrics and multiple wildly different yet highly accomplished singing voices set her apart from the usual bland, cute pop singers so popular in Japan. Her mash-up of "lolita" voice, straight singing, screaming, and operatics, married to traditional Japanese melodies, militaristic marching themes, and techno-pop continue to endear her to Japanese "maniac" fans, such as devotees of horror or erotic manga, particularly young women. At one point, she even appeared in a toilet commercial. Influential alternative musician and producer Jim O'Rourke known for his work with Sonic Youth amongst others, picked a Togawa Jun album Goodbye 20th Century as one of his "best albums of the year" in an interview in 2001.

Although her deeply un-commercial attitude kept her away from major "pop" success, she survived as an influential and respected underground music figure both solo and as the lead singer of Guernica (ゲルニカ) and Yapoos (ヤプーズ), and she recently released a new CD with her current project Jun Togawa Band (戸川純バンド) featuring elements of noise rock, disco, techno-pop, opera and various other genres, to favourable reviews from many underground music fans in Japan.

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