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Sunday, July 29, 2007

[CD] Sora ha marude / monkey majik

"monkey majik" is now the one of my favorite artists in Japan.
They sing the songs in both of Japanese and English.
I believe their English pronunciation is perfect (Sometimes, Japanese musicians can't pronounce English well in their songs :-|).
Why do I think so? Because the two vocalists are Canadians :). You can see their profile on Wikipedia.
It's very rare thing that the musician from foreign country start their work in Japan and make a success.

"Monkey Magic" was the theme song title for a tv program(drama) "Sai-yu-ki"(1978 wow, how old!) by Godiego.
Though I don't know they are inspired from the song title, it is the one of the reason that they can get to sing the theme song of the renewal version of "Sai-yu-ki".





"Sora ha marude" is the newest album by Monkey Majik.
The title song "Sora ha marude" is very beautiful song.

You can listen the parts of the songs. Check it out!

01. Sora ha marude
02.NO SNOW IN DECEMBER
03.Kouchou
04. Picture Perfect
05. Sotugyo soshite mirai he
06. Change
07. Futari
08. LONG SHOT PENNY
09. Pretty People
10. Negai
11.Smile
12.MAYBE
13.I MISS YOU
14.Around The World + Go! Sora (The theme song of Saikyuki(renewal ver.))
15.Gandhara(cover song of Godiego)

Their official site is here. (Japanese)

BTW, Godiego is also the one of my favorite artists in Japan.
Their "Monkey Magic" is available on youtube.com.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s3ezU8c28o

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Ichiro ! Ichiro ! Ichirooooo!

Ichiro won MVP of MLB All Star Game 2007 !

He's really great!