#asai Kenichi

[zegalba]

Yoshitomo Nara: Picture Book Baby Revolution :: Love & Peace Kenichi Asai Japan (2019)

[anamon-book]

音楽と人 2001年3月号 VOL.86 シンコー・ミュージック 表紙＝AJICO

[xinu1941-1966]

『幸せの鐘が鳴り響き僕はただ悲しいふりをする』

アルバム雑誌広告

THE BLANKEY JET CITY　1994

photo: kyouji takahashi 高橋恭司

#blankey jet city #bjc #浅井健一 #中村達也　#照井利幸　#kenichi asai　#tatsuya nakamura　#toshiyuki terui　#ブランキージェットシティ　#ブランキー #高橋恭司 #kyoji takahashi

[oh-sunny-sun]

― Jude | Electric Rainbow ―

今日の音楽の聴き始めはこのアルバム♪

2024年9月9日 月曜日

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― Jude - Erectric Rainbow ―

I started listening to today's music on this album.

Monday, September 9, 2024

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Jude 『本当の世界』

[citygamepop]

Ajico - Love no genkei [Speedstar Records - Victor]

[nara-fan]

Baby Revolution

Book by Kenichi Asai & Yoshitomo Nara

[chishiya-of-diamonds]

OOC: I found this article about singer UA. She’s being honored by Billboard as part if it’s “Women In Music” series. In this article she talks about how pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood shaped her early career.

For those of you that don’t know, UA is Nijiro Murakami’s mother.

Here are a few of the things she has to say about how Nijiro coming into her life changed her.

You became a fan of Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin in your teenage years and went on to make your debut as a singer on stage. Your hit single “Jounetsu” came out in 1996, and the following year you gave birth to your first child, (actor) Nijiro Murakami. You then formed the band AJICO with Kenichi Asai in 2000, so looking at the timeline alone, it must have been a very eventful time. How did pregnancy and childbirth affect your career?

Looking back chronologically like that, it certainly was a turbulent time. [Laughs] But you see, I’m actually the type of person who insists on taking adequate time off, so after making an album and touring with it, I was allowed to take a proper break. I knew from the beginning that I’d burst if I kept working all the time. I was still young when Nijiro was born, so I think I took about three months off, then started easing back to work.

I witnessed something so pure and beautiful and clear in (Nijiro’s) new life. Also, some horrific incidents happened (in Japan in 1997), and it felt like the world was changing rapidly. The single I released before childbirth was “Amai Unmei” (“Sweet Destiny”), a song with lyrics about wanting to leave things up to a “sweet” fate, but after childbirth, I wanted to sing about a dystopian world in a vivid way, so “Kanashimi Johnny” (“Sad Johnny”) was born.

The experience of pregnancy and childbirth and the time I was able to put into it were like gifts to me. He was my first child and raising a child was a real challenge. I kind of feel like I inconvenienced Nijiro, and would like to apologize to him for some things now. In any case, the experience was like being allowed to practice becoming a parent while still being a kid myself.

The rest of the article is incredibly interesting and she talks a lot more about her experiences as a woman and a mother in the music industry. Please give it a read.

[okasiya]

椎名林檎 – 丸の内サディスティック

Lyrics: Ringo Sheena / Music: Ringo Shiina / Tr: okasiya

Marunouchi Sadistic

My wages have have been on a track to nowhere since I got hired I love Tokyo but there’s nothing here for me

Won’t you get me a Ric 620? I don’t have ¥190,000 for it Ochanomizu

A bump of Marshall sends me flying, it’s a problem That’s how I reach climax every night I’ve got a single RAT as the tool of my trade Then Benji fills my lungs and I trip

Recently I’ve been playing cops and robbers in Ginza Even if you push boundaries, prosperity leads to decline Won’t you write me a receipt? I don’t have an accountant Korakuen

I want you to become a monk and marry me someday We’ll just play in the sheets every night I’d like to become the Pizza Guy’s Girlfriend Then Benji hits me with his Gretsch

Won’t you come for me under the stars? If I’m going home on the last train it’s from Ikebukuro

A bump of Marshall sends me flying, it’s a problem That’s how I reach climax every night I’ve got a single RAT as the tool of my trade Then Benji fills my lungs and I trip

I want you to become a monk and marry me someday We’ll just play in the sheets every night I’d like to become the Pizza Guy’s Girlfriend Then Benji hits me with his Gretsch

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I wish Tumblr made it easier to write footnotes!!!

This song is about the harsh reality of a struggling musician in Tokyo who finds escape in her love of music, framed by stops on the Marunouchi subway line. Kenichi Asai (called Benji by fans), the legendary frontman of Blankey Jet City, plays the part of a drug and an imaginary lover.

"The pizza guy's girlfriend" comes from a line in a BJC song, so SR is saying she wants to live in their music, not date a guy who makes pizza or work in a pizza parlor. This line is obscure even in Japanese but it haunts me how much it's been misunderstood by English-speaking fans.

I managed to pull a couple double meanings through but one line is absolutely impossible:

青 噛んで熟って頂戴

Phonetically, she's having public sex and asking her partner to orgasm. From the way she wrote it, it essentially says, "take a bite of the green fruit and let it ripen," speaking of her impatience to join the ranks of her musical inspirations, with a wink to her stage name.

[beatnikmag]

Nuevo número de la newsletter comentando el nuevo EP del proyecto de UA y Kenichi Asai así como la banda sonora de la primera película dirigida por MahitoThePeople de Gezan. Por supuesto, también hay repaso de singles y noticias varias.

[spanielonthemoon]

Blankey Jet City

BJC ROMEO's HEART full pamphlet link to archive to cloud.mail in the post below

https://homeonthemoon.diary.ru/p221155988_blankey-jet-city.htm

[clechan007]

[matsucity]

[xinu1941-1966]

blankey jet city　不良少年のうた/胸がこわれそう 1st single 1991/4/12 TODT-2644

#blankey jet city #bjc #浅井健一 #中村達也 #照井利幸 #kenichi asai #tatsuya nakamura #toshiyuki terui #ブランキージェットシティ #ブランキー

[oh-sunny-sun]

― 浅井健一 | Rod Snake Shock Service ―

今日の音楽の聴き始めはこのアルバム♪

2023年12月10日 日曜日

― Kenichi Asai - Rod Snake Shock Service ―

I started listening to today's music on this album.

Sunday, December 10, 2023

[anamon-book]

音楽と人 1999年9月号 VOL.68 シンコー・ミュージック 表紙＝浅井健一（SHERBETS）