For folks who have never been to Tokyo, the general impression might be that Japan's capital city was the inspiration for Coruscant: nothing but wall-to-wall buildings and concrete. And to be honest, looking at the city from the top floors of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government buildings in West Shinjuku, Ewen McGregor and Hayden Christensen probably would have said "Whoa! Lucas was right about one thing!". However having said that, there are some large patches of green within Tokyo including Komazawa Park in the western end of town as you can see above.
Yesterday, Van Paugam put out a tweet regarding the September 27th release of a third part, "Interchange", in a series of CD compilations by Cunimondo Takiguchi(クニモンド瀧口)titled "City Music Tokyo". The theme for this disc is music that one can drive to. There are a few tracks that I'm familiar with such as Blue Peppers' "Believe In Love" but a lot of them are new to me including this song.
I never heard of CHiLi GiRL before last night, but according to this December 2022 article in "Tokyo Weekender", this has been a collaborative solo project undertaken by singer-songwriter and shamisen player Shinobu Kawashima(川嶋志乃舞). Active since June 2020, she has put out her brand of "spicy and charming" music through a number of singles and an album thus far, and one track from that June 2022 album "MEBAE", "Tokai no Mori" (Forest in the City) is the one that has been selected for "Interchange".
I just listened to her playing the shamisen for a funky jazz song.
ReplyDeleteIt does not work for me, the timbres of the shamisen and the other instruments clash too much.
Is there is a way to make the timbre of a shamisen thicker and more funky?
At any rate, the song you posted is really good.
Thanks very much. In that "Tokyo Weekender" article I mentioned above, Kawashima mentions that she had to make adjustments to her shamisen as she was growing up, so I gather that it's possible.
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