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detroit 7: official website; myspace; A three piece garage rock band formed in 2001. Nabana, the female vocalist, is the key person of the band and she sings hard and yet sometimes mellow, while playing her white lefty Jazz Master. You can get the feel of their garage rock sound from their latest album"Great Romantic" but you won't get the best of the band until you see them beating the audience by their fully-fledged energetic live performance.

SA: official website; myspace; SA(aka Samurai Attack) originally formed in 1984 and gained an enormous following in Japan before breaking up in 1987. The CDs continued to sell and the legend lived on and on until 1999 when SA reformed. Therein followed a truly prolific release schedule starting in 2002.

Sparta Locals: official website; myspace; SPARTA LOCALS are not from the city-state in ancient Greece, they are from Fukuoka city in southern part of Japan.
They combine post-punk and new wave influences with an angular indie rock sound. Their music and live performance have every thing of joy, anger, sorrow and delight of human being and gained recognition from all around.

Flip: official website; myspace; All girl teenage rock band formed @ MacDonald in Naha city in Okinawa in 2005. They just released their first mini-album called “Haha kara Umareta Hinekure no Uta in July 2008 and also played at Summer Sonic Music Festival.

Omodaka: official website; Omodaka is a solo project of Soicchi Terada, a composer, arranger, and remixer who has been musically active since 1989. Terada studied computer science at the University of Electro-Communications, and it was while still in college that he launched his music career. He is also the founder of FarEast Recording, the label which releases all of Omodaka's music. He has been producing a wide variety of electro/techno music collaborated with other artists (some of them visual artists, not musicians). Omodaka's sound is characterized by the seamless mixture of Minyo. "KOKIRIKO BUSHI" , the collaborative work with a veteran Japanese traditional folk singer, Kanazawa Akiko, got over 750,000 views at YouTube from 2007 and it will knock over your existing image toward a music video by a beautiful trajectory. From 2008, Omodaka has been playing another trial and error process in live performances. He joined "Japan Nite US tour 2009" and his performance with his band members: an Apple MacBook Pro, a Nintendo DS Lite, a Sony PSP, a Gameboy Color, a Korg Kaossilator, and the LCD monitor impacted the audience in USA.

Grapevine: official website; The vocalist had been singing blues and soul, and the band had been influenced by the Beatles, Neil Young & XTC.....their inevitable encounter in Osaka, was the beginning of this incredibly talented group.
The band's live performances and self-released cassette tape alone were enough to quickly get people's attention and offers from major records labels.

Grapevine - Kazumasa Tanaka - Vo/Gtr, Hiroyoshi Nishikawa - Gtr, Toru Kamei- Drums and Makoto Nishihara - Bass, signed to Pony Canyon in 1997 and in September of that year, released a 5-track E.P "Kakusei" (translated into English means 'awakening / disillusion'). In 1999, a second E.P "Slow" became a smash hit and the album "Lifetime“ entered at no.3 in the national chart - a remarkable and exceptional achievement for an up and coming band. Since then, every album that Grapevine has released, is always in the top 10 of the charts, backed up with large-scale nationwide touring by the band.

2002 saw the departure of bassist Makoto Nishihara but with the excellent support of Satoru Kaneto (Bass) and Isao Takano (keys), the band just keep on rolling!

Grapevine have come of age as a band on their latest album “SING" (2008) .

Asakusa Jinta: official website; ASAKUSA JINTA is a hardcore marching brass band from Asakusa in Tokyo, Japan; they call themselves Asianica Hard March Band.
Their music style is a mixture of Rocakbilly, uptempo country, punk and Japanese Kenka and Kayokyoku from the 1930's.
Their base is Asakusa, Tokyo's old downtown, an area reminiscent of traditional Japan. They love this town and people who live there love the band as they are known as a marching band playing on the shopping streets or for weeklong parades. Asakusa Jinta's music theme is joy and sorrow of life and "Giri and Ninjo", the spirit of traditional Japanese emotions such as sympathy, compassion, love and friendship.
They are playing a style of music from the 1930s - actually it's more like a '30s brass band that plays in many different styles. Some songs are like uptempo country or rockabilly, but most of it is just frenetic klesmer. Just accordions and saxophones and trombones all playing lightning fast happy melodies while stand-up bass and drums and tubas throw down polka-style rhythms. The Hawaiian shirts and vaguely lounge-lizard outfits adds the finishing touch to this eccentric band..

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