Hello! Thanks to some help from my friend Tom, who has lots of anime subtitling experience, I think I may have got the tayu tau subtitles into a reliable format. I had to update to the latest version of VLC for it to work properly; that software may have been updated in some way that makes SSA files work better. If you tried to use the subtitles before and it didn’t work, please give it another try and let me know how it goes. Thanks!
Mito has a special display up at Tower Records Shinjuku to show off his favorite anime music.
That’s even my Tower Records, from when I lived in that area and whenever I go back to Tokyo. If I were standing in the store right now, I’d probably be tempted to drop the ¥35000 to get them all at once.
My more anime-aware friends have helped me figure them all out:
- Patlabor the Movie OST Album INQUEST
- Macross Frontier Vocal Collection Nyantama
- Zegapain OST 2
- Lucky Star Character Song Album Vol. 11: Kanata and Soujirou
- Aso Natsuko – Programming for Non-Fiction
- Hakuyoku no Seiyaku ~Pure Engagement~/Onnaji Kimochi
- Kobato OST 2
- Hidama~buru
- Toyosaki Aki – Boku wo Sagashite
Related selections:
- Aso Natsuko – Movement of Magic
- marble – Senritsu no Yukue, Sora no Kanata
- Sphere – Now loading…SKY!!
- Fate/stay night UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS OST
Until the night of July 23, you can watch the 22-minute film for the song Hareru to Madjika at the Columbia Music clammbon site. I’m halfway through it, and it’s… really, really sad. ;_;
Movable Type was a fun experiment, and definitely superior to the totally manually-maintained site it superseded. But I have come to like WordPress too much to carry on with c-b e-b the way it was. So I spent a few evenings moving everything over, manually recreating all the cross-references, adopting a new style, and refreshing a lot of the content.
Some stuff is bound to be broken, though I have done my best to make sure that at least syndication feeds are automatically redirected. If you come across anything amiss, please let me know of it.
And lastly, the new site is commemmorated with a new translation: JAPANESE MANNER, requested by Gavin Oakman. Enjoy!
“2010″ is here! Just a couple of quick things, then back to listening to it for the krillionth time. :D In addition to the ototoy version I mentioned earlier, the album is also available on iTunes. (Use that link to support this site!) I found it on the USA store; you may find it in your country too. The video for NOW!!! is up at YouTube; check it out!
Howdy friends. The new album is almost upon us, and I’ve just learned that ototoy is accepting pre-orders. The album is presented in their higher-than-CD-quality HQD format. In the ototoy version, the track “4hands_cp_waves” is four times longer than on the CD, and you’ll receive a special “web booklet”. I’m off to reserve my copy now! Vive le international online distribution!
ClammbonChannel is open on YouTube! Go check out the video for “tiny pride”. Mito posted some footage from the making of this video on his own YouTube channel a while back. Also! Check out the video for “Ka-Ka-KaLMa!” and some comments from the band on New Audiogram. (Don’t miss seeing Miss Ikuko in… spectacles!!)
Happily, the JAPANESE MANNER EP made it to iTunes USA! Use that link if you’d like to support c-b e-b; I truly appreciate it. I’ve also added this release to the ever-lengthening albums page. Have a lovely new music day! Update: Zounds, I just realized that this 5-track “EP”, at over 43 minutes, is longer than a lot of albums! That’s value!
Many clammbon fans have come to know Nujabes, and vice versa, via his remix of “Folklore”. Nujabes was recently killed in a car accident, and several musicians have offered messages of farewell. Here is what Mito had to say. (Thanks to Bob Ross, who pointed it out.)
“Hey Mito-kun. How have you been? Find any good music lately?”
“Let’s make something together soon. All right?”
Whenever we talked on the phone, those were the words he always started and finished with
Then, I took it all for granted,
Like I thought it would last forever
I always believed we’d be able to make wonderful music
And now, I didn’t recognize the peace those exchanges signified,
Until he was gone I still haven’t found the words to say goodbye
It was such a sudden thing, I still need time
Though,
While he may be gone,
his music,
is still here and connecting us to him
I will continue to listen to this music for a long… long time,
And so that I might be able to create even a single drop of the sound we made together during that time,
I want to keep making music
The finest of artists, the finest of friends
Now, just be at peace
2010 3/19 am 4:08 clammbon mito
There’s a lot of news in clammbon-land right now… First, the free, high-quality download of SUPER☆STAR is available! At least, it is supposed to be, but the Ototoy site seems to be down at the moment. Check it out some time within the next week to get your copy. The JAPANESE MANNER e.p. will be available exclusively on iTunes starting April 28. No word yet whether it’ll be available on international iTunes stores, or just the Japan one, but recent clammbon and Harada Ikuko releases have been pretty widely available. Once a cover is available, I’ll add it to the releases page; until then, here’s the track list: 1. JAPANESE MANNER 2. Joutai no Highway (2006 @ Yaon feat. BIKKE) 3. Eiketsu no Asa Shou (2009 @ Matsumoto Piccadilly Hall) 4. Re-Ame -Amestub Remix- 5. Re-Ahoj! (2009 @ Tokyo NHK Hall) Mito-san has posted two more clips to his YouTube account, this time documenting the filming of a music video on top of a snowy mountain. On the topic of music videos, the band just announced that they will be making videos for every song on the new album! Wowowowow, clammbon fans~
Hi! Clammbon’s eighth album is titled 2010, and will be released May 19. I have posted up the track list on the discography page. The “tiny pride” single is available for free on Ototoy for a limited time; get it while you can! It’s a great time to be a Clammbon fan~
The new album has finally been officially recognized on the Clammbon web site. It will be released some time in May. And, great news, a song from the album will be released early as a free download! Starting March 1, ototoy (formerly Recommuni, the site that released the “NOW!!!” single) will offer “tiny pride” in greater-than-CD-quality 24bit/48KHz WAV format. Party!
Clammbon has a habit of making announcements at the beginning of the year, so I was anticipating some news about a new album for 2010. But the official site was silent on New Year’s Day, and hasn’t had much band news of note all month.
But! Someone on the BBS pointed out that Mito himself has been posting YouTube videos lately. I went to check them out, and not only are they videos of the mixing process of the new album, but you can even hear bits of the new songs!
Go ahead and check out micromicrophone on YouTube for yourself. If the album was already in the mixing stage on January 11, the album should be complete soon! Perhaps we will see a Spring release.
Happy Clammbon new year to the world!
The collaboration between Clammbon and hip-hop group THA BLUE HERB, “Akari from HERE ~NO MUSIC, NO LIFE~” is available for listening at Columbia Records’ Clammbon site today only. Make sure to go check it out before midnight Japan time! The single is to go on sale at Tower Records on November 11.
August has come to Japan, and that means the new single “NOW!!!” is available at Recommuni. I’m downloading my copy this very minute.
Recommuni, which seems like a pretty excellent music site to me, now has a short preview of the new single for you to listen to. Check it out on the left side of the NOW!!! preorder page. From there you can also order the song for 300 yen; ordering early will get you a voice message from the band, over ten minutes long. I had no trouble signing up and preordering with a United States credit card. I just might explore around the site and buy some other music too.
I finished translating id, the album that came out during my 10-month stay in Japan, back in 2002. It may not be too long before we’re caught up!
The first new clammbon song in two years, “NOW!!!”, is coming August 1! It will be an exclusive release at the high-quality music download service Recommuni. I’m not sure yet whether it’ll be easy for those of us in foreign countries to buy the single, but I’ll keep you updated! Check out the announcement and photo at Recommuni.
Well, we’ve beta-tested the subtitles and made a couple of versions available. Neither is as convenient to use as I’d like, but hopefully some subtitle-savvy folks out there can eventually help me make them more usable. Check it out, and please let me know what you think! Vive le clammbon!