When I had my happy reunion with Makkin & The New Music Stuff in my previous article, I also discovered the indies rock band Zanzow Cafe（残像カフェ...Afterimage Cafe）. And so I was able to place Makkin's "Kimi ga Suki"（君が好き）and one song by Zanzow Cafe into the backlog.
I did find a website for Zanzow Cafe which has its discography dating as far back as December 2001, although Genki Ohmori（大森元気）and his group officially released music starting from 2002. In April 2004, the band released "Shi-gatsu no Kotoba"（４月のことば...Words of April）, a concept album going through one full cycle of the four seasons.
One track is the rock ballad "Yuugure Toki" (At Dusk) or could it be "Yuugure Ji"...just not sure but let's go with the former for now. Set in autumn, despite all of the crashing electric guitars, it's quite the tenderhearted love song about a man talking a walk during the titular sunset and remembering a past romance. I'm not a huge rock expert but listening to the arrangement, I'm sure that someone more well versed in the genre can compare this song to something recorded over in the West at around the same time.
I've only taken a quick glimpse through the website but it seems as if Ohmori has gone to a new project in recent years called "Zanzow no Bouquet"（残像のブーケ...Afterimage Bouquet）.
This is some very smooth relaxing J-rock. It sound a little like the alternative rock (maybe of the brit-rock/indie-rock genre) that might be released in the late, late 80's or early 90's.
ReplyDeleteYeah, as I mentioned above, I'm not a rock guy but hearing this one by Zanzow Cafe, this is quite a nice tune.
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