Kayo egotrip

Some people say there was a life before Youtube but I don't remember very well...
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Apogee & Perigee used to be a side-project involving Togawa Jun (thanks to Mayutan for highlighting it among the whole Togawa discography) with an almost impossible to find record now.

So if you have somt troubles to sleep, you can spend hours following the links or just typing the amazing P-Vine techno kayo best database, and get stuck with Hosono again and again (featuring Koshi Miharu).



Oh god and how comes that Sakaitsukasa Yuuko did this one LIVE:



Addicts visiting this blog through Kayo searches probably know Hosono's and Sakamoto's involvement in 80s production, and noticed they always had an interesting specific involvement in both the most avant-garde projects (supporting them through Yen label) and the most mainstream hits, commercial works, futuristic minna no uta, or comical appearances on tv-shows.

This is how every attempt to sleep got spoiled by dozens of more and more shameless mainstream idol mermaids.

Kenji Endo

Great. After some posts on european material, I can now focus on some views on japanese music without look like a pathetic nerdy compulsive sucker.

So here starts a bunch of short posts regarding several items or people, already planned in different areas or styles.

Kenji Endo is probably less known than Mikami Kan or Tomokawa Kazuki outside of Japan.
However, he also appears as a striking character for Hideo Ikeezumi (P.S.F. label founder). Ikeezumi seems to often talk about his true love and strong interest for popular singers, and that's great and usefull because he's carrying the light for foreigners fans of his label in their attempts to enter the realms of acid-folk or enka.

These two opposite videos probably show the two sides of the character in a good way, who happened to both attend haunted raw folk areas and kayo sunsets.

With beautifully strange lyrics about wife cooking curry rice.
If some of you have more infos, they are welcome...

Les enfants terribles

The great thing with 70s left-wing french smoker hippies freaky material is that almost no one really cares about it anymore except your father, and the friend who gave you the link.

Even moldy chanson lovers do not dare to quote such records into their glossaries, and we are gratefull, so we can forget them and focus on the pure strangeness of these excentric ultra-pathos vocal harmonies and maboule arrangements (among folk guitars, various exploded strings, flutes, light ethnic drums = the whole classic set in this area).

Les enfants terribles is a family (Alain Feral with wife, brothers and sisters), and as usual, early recordings (66-69 EPs and first album C'est la vie) are the best. Despite great artwork, second LP On l'appelle Madame was disappointing, regarding how difficult it was to find (more poetry for less madness).

Again, any frenchy will probably fly away from this marshmallow, but offer this record to any stranger, focusing on music, he'll probably fall in love with it. I always considered it as a good sign.