Avantgardey – The group is a 20 female Japanese dancing team led by choreographer Akane. Their well known strength is a synchronized funny dance moves expressions. With different background music or sound, this funny dancing group gained huge attendance worldwide after they performed with DJ Steve Aoki to gain international popularity. Since then, the group have reached out to numbers of million followers in social media. They are not singers, but goes to a show of “America’s Got Talent” for showing out their dancing soul in order to reaching the final championship. Avantgardey Dance Group has been entertaining audiences with its traditional, creative, and modern blend, like “Bubbly Dance.” This is a type of dance video that has gained over millions views and became very popular everywhere.
Music Culture – Miyakojima Rock Festival
Miyakojima rock festival – Miyako Island宮古島, Miyakojima, is known for one of the best beaches and it has tropical climate provides mild weather every year. Miyako is the fourth largest island in Okinawa Prefecture and its beaches are most famous attraction, like Yonaha-Maehama Beach. Miyakojima rock festival is suppose to be held on Miyakojima in which about one hour by air from Naha Airport or less than 30 minutes by car from Miyako Airport. Every year of the summer rock festival saves mother nature from Miyakojima The ticket price range is from 4,000 yen to 7,000 yen. Although it is a day festival held on Miyako Island, Okinawa, the festival actually draws in many big name bands, like ONE OK ROCK, to perform outdoor concert to attract thousands of thousands people.
Music Culture – Earth Celebration
Earth Celebration – It is a festival of music is held at Ogi, where located on Sado Island. The 3 days festival features many singers and artists who can perform in collaboration with Kodo and other instruments. This unique opportunities to attract people come from everywhere to learn more about the culture and tastes of Sado. This leading music event of Japan also added to the various concerts, cultural workshops, local tours, fringe performances to the festival, like “Sado Island Galaxy Art Festival,” people are able to visit and enjoy from places to places over the whole island. The main event are outdoor concerts held at Ogi Harbor while the Harbor Market features many food stands that are open all day long.
J. Music – The song of “Flowers will bloom” (For 3.1.1.Earthquake)
3.1.1. Earthquake – Human, please close our eyes to think that why we are still fighting between different countries. It does not matter which country is winning, the mother nature(like Earthquake, Tsunami, etc.) is going to kill us all at last. It is a time to united our forces of the mind to work together……..The earthquake 3.1.1. hit Japan to cost the lost of a large chunk of its electricity-generating capacity by one-two-THREE punch of earthquake and tsunami, the narrative in parts of one of the world’s most technologically advanced PLACES – JAPAN was suddenly transformed overnight into one of Third World country hardship. It is hard to imagine of it. There is a song called “Flowers will bloom” – The song which is sung and made together from a massive group of Japanese Singers. Please close your eye and listen the song from your heart.
FLOWERS WILL BLOOM LYRIC
My heart goes out to you,
When the winter snows give way to spring.
My heart is longing now,
Longing for the town where happiness had been.
Been a place of hope and of dreaming too,
Been a home where my heart always went back to you,
But for now I only dream of the people who I loved and knew.
Someone is singing, I can hear singing now,
Someone is weeping, I can feel their tears,
Someone is smiling, showing me why
and how to go on living for years and years.
Flowers will bloom, yes they will, yes they will,
For you who are here or yet to be born.
They’ll bloom, yes they will
and they’ll bloom again until,
There’s no missing sorrow and no reason left to mourn.
My heart goes out to you,
When the morning sun lights up the pale blue sky.
My heart is heavy now,
With the grief I tried so often to deny.
I regret mistakes that I sometimes made.
But I know our love will never fade
and that you’ll live on instead of me,
And that you will have whatever love can be.
Someone is thinking, I can read every thought,
Someone is shedding tears for all that was lost,
Someone is leading you to love that they sought
asking you to love all that you love the most.
Flowers will bloom, yes they will, yes they will,
For you who are here or yet to be born.
They’ll bloom, yes they will
and they’ll bloom again until,
There’s no missing sorrow and no reason left to mourn.
Flowers will bloom, yes they will, yes they will,
For you who are here or yet to be born.
They’ll bloom, yes they will
and they’ll bloom again until,
There’s no missing sorrow and no reason left to mourn.
Yes they will
They’ll bloom, yes they will
and they’ll bloom again until,
You’ll live and remember and love us forever more.
And love us forever more.
J. Music – Japan Annual Singers Championship (Kohaku Uta Gassen紅白歌合戦)
Kohaku Uta Gassen紅白歌合戦 is a giant annual music TV show on every New Year’s Eve produced by Japanese public broadcast NHK television company locally. It also broadcasts internationally by NHK’s overseas networks, which whoever bought the program. This show usually ends shortly before the midnight of every New Year Eve. Kohaku U
ta Ga
ssen represents “Red and White Song Battle”. This TV program divides the music artists of the year into 2 teams of red and white. The “red” team of akagumi赤組 represents of all female vocals/artists or groups of female vocals/artists. And the “white” team of shirogumi白組 represents all male vocals/artists or groups of male vocals/artists. This honor of the super ultimate singer of performing on Kohaku is usually very selectively every single year that leads to the most successful Japan singer artist can perform. It is VERY important for them that this kind of music performances can directly affect the sale CD album of each individual singer……………………………………..
J. Pop – Chameleon Lime Whoopiepie
Chameleon Lime Whoopiepie – Chi who has orange hair joins Whoopies 1 and Whoopies 2 together handle songwriting, composing, and music recording activities. They released a single, “Dear Idiot.” with 1 million total plays in half year. Later the group released her EP, “PLAY WITH ME.” and her song “Love You!!!!!!” was chosen as the theme song for Abema’s ” New York Love Market .” They also released their EP, “MAD DOCTOR.” The track “Crush Style” from the EP was used for the Apple Books Manga Store while they released “Whoopie is a Punkrocker feat. Stephen Harrison,” performed at SUMMER SONIC 2022 and Hong Kong, “BPM JUNIOR.” They also released “PUNKS,” the ending theme song for the TV anime ” ONE PIECE .”
J. Pop – Kokolashika
Kokolashika – While searching for a stylish name, they came across the cocktail “Nikorashika.” They realized that if they changed the first letter to “ko,” it would become the initials of the band members’ names, Kouki, Kota, and Rana, and decided on “Kocorashika.” With the theme of “music that will get you drunk,” they pursued the kind of music that only a guitar-less three-piece band could express, and while in school, they gained over thousands followers on Instagram.
J. Pop – Reni Takagi
Reni Takagi高城 れに – Reni Takagi is a member of Japanese girl idol of “Momoiro Clover Z.” She is the former leader of Momoiro Clover Z, before leadership was given to Kanako Momota, and her signature color of clothes is purple. Takagi was born in Kanagawa Prefecture and became a D.J. later of her own radio show called Takagi Reni no King of Rock.
J. Pop & Rock – Spitz
Spitz – The group consists of Masamune Kusano (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Tetsuya Miwa (lead guitar), Akihiro Tamura (bass guitar), and Tatsuo Sakiyama (drums). The band released single “Robinson” released which sold more than 1.6 million copies. Also, their 6th studio album “Hachimitsu”, which was released and topping the Japanese Oricon charts. It won the Best Album Record Award. They have been listed in the top 30 of the best-selling music acts in history of the Japanese record charts, having sold over 20.8 million copies albums and singles domestically.
J. Metal – Bridear
Bridear – It is a J. metal band from Fukuoka, which consists of singer Kimi, guitarists Moe and Ayumi, bassist Haru, and drummer Natsumi. This all-girl rock bands with their more modern sound, described as a “metalized” version of Band-Maid. “Pray/Another Name” was released and then First single “Thread of the Light/Roulette”, released. The single “Light in the Dark/No Salvation” and concert video Dear Bride were released. Then, later Another concert video, Live Tour 2018 Marcasite were produced. It released their second studio album Expose Your Emotions and Bloody Brideafter the following year.
J. Pop – Noa
Noa After winning an audition for the indie label No Doubt Tracks, Noa debuted in 2007 as a featured artist on the compilation album Ride On West under the name Kaoru. In 2008, she released her first studio album Lucy Love, as a tie-in to a Californian fashion brand. She have been released many albums, like Lucy Love, Lucy Love: Season II, Noaism 2010, Noa’s Love, Molt, Ai ga Nakereba (愛がなければ), and, Supple.
J. Metal – Matenrou Opera
Matenrou Opera摩天楼オペラ – This visual kei Metal band consists of many people like, Sono(vocals), Yo(bass), Ayame(keyboards), Hibiki(drums), Yusuke(guitar). The band released the single “Ruri Iro de Egaku Niji” and reached number 11 on the Oricon Indies Chart; the EP Gilia reached number 7 and was also released in Europe. Also, Matenrou Opera toured through Europe with Versailles. Matenrou Opera shared a national tour of Japan with Deluhi. Matenrou Opera covered X Japan’s song “Kurenai” for the compilation Crush! V-Rock Best Hit Cover Songs that were important to visual kei movement. The band later teamed up with Moi dix Mois, Versailles and D for the four-date Japanese Visual Metal tour. The different bands collaborated on the song “Kyōsōkyoku ~Tanbinaru Kettō~”, which was released as a single credited to the JVM Roses Blood Symphony. The band have released many albums, like Gilia, Anomie, Abyss, Justice, Kassai to Gekijou no Gloria, Avalon, Chikyuu, Phoenix Rising, Pantheon -Part 1-, Pantheon -Part 2-, Human Dignity, Chronos, Shinjitsu wo Shitteiku Monogatari, and Evil
J. Pop – Angerme
Angerme/アンジュルム/Anjurumu – It is a Japanese idol girl group from the musical collective Hello! Project, which originally consisted of many members that includes Moe Kamikokuryo, Layla Ise, Rin Hashisako, Rin Kawana, Shion Tamenaga, Wakana Matsumoto, Yuki Hirayama, Yukiho Shimoitani, Hana Goto and others from time to time of Hello! Project. They won the Japan Record Award for Best New Artist. Since the formation of Angerme, there have been many different generations. Some were added and left of group. They have debuted many songs, like “Smile Campaign” (笑顔キャンペーン, “Egao Campaign”), “Otona ni Narutte Muzukashii!!!”, “Yume Miru Fifteen”
J. Pop – Ai Kawashima
Ai Kawashima/川嶋 あい – Kawashima started her career as an enka singer. Later, she tries to release her poor sale single. Shortly after she began to sing her songs on street in Shibuya, she set herself the goal of performing 1,000 times on the street. In the beginning, nobody listen to her songs. However, the crowd starts to gradually grow as she kept performing and tries to met people who gave her support. Later on, it gives her conference to create the major single “Asueno tobira” (Door to Tomorrow), which sold a million copies. Her second solo single, “12-ko no Kisetsu” (12 Seasons) ranked 10th on the Billboard Hits of Japan. Even after her major debut, she kept performing on streets in order to finish the 1,000 street performances goal, which, according to Kawashima, became her music base. In addition, she performed for Japan events at Central Park, New York, USA.
J. Rock – Blue Encount
Blue Encount – A Japanese 4-member rock band active mainly in Kumamoto Prefecture was formed in 2004. The members are Shunichi Tanabe (guitar, vocals), Yuya Eguchi (guitar), Tsujimura Yuuta (bass), and Yoshihide Takamura (drums). The name of the movie “Blue Encounter” that have originated from he representative song, ‘HALO’. The song is from band second album that received millions attention on YouTube. Then, the online power has been helping them to sell albums out. Later, the band debuted the EP ‘TIMELESS ROOKIE’, with the single ‘もっと光を’, ‘DAY×DAY’, which were gained attention to reach top spot on the iTunes rock chart. The band released her album ‘≒’, which also reached #10 on the Oricon weekly chart. Also, ‘Hajimari’ was used as a sport championships song, while ‘Survivor’, which was used as a song for Gundam Animation. Overall, it is a band with high momentum that represents the future of rock song.
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