Originality is when you attempt a brillant infusion of the new and old

..’know something? Shiina Ringo’s musicality aside (she composed most of the band’s songs), i love even the very connotation of the band’s name. 

The idea for 東京事變 – or Tokyo Jihen as they are popularly known in Japan - is inspired from ’60s Japanese pulp fiction. If you’ve watched early Japanese detective films, you’ll know that the ’60s was to the Japanese a period of postwar anxiety threatening to unravel at the fringes of domesticity. 

It’s the same kind of unsettling intensity 東京事變 bring to their music, except that the urgency is now symptomatic of life in an urban metropolis.

From their latest album, song featured’s 修羅場 (Shuraba) – Rat’s Poison.

*Edited and replaced with Kenka Joutou. i love how SR is singing in a corner as the kabuki act pushes forward with the music*

Tokyo Incidents, ppl.

[東京事変 are: Hata, Izawa, Shiina Ringo, Ukigumo, and Kameda Seiji]

How do you like a band that defies genre classifications, just because they can pret.ty much do anything on a whim?  

Peek into the future

(Don’t you already love the looks of it?)

Ye eyes cheat you not

Ahaha. yea i’ve finally decided to do away with the melancholic blue hues for a more acquired feel. There’s no telling whether i’ll ever reverse course, but i like what i see so far. thought IcarusGirl might be ready for a change.
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Which also means one thing: i’ll be back up on blogsphere soon. Can’t wait! 8-)