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Instead we want to leave you with a wish list. We try hard in every editorial to offer realistic solutions to the problems we identify, but here you'll have to be content with a list. Our aim is to identify the needs of St. Olaf and to challenge the administration, faculty, staff and the next generation of Oles to meet those needs.
The needs of St. Olaf College are, as follows:
1. Weve witnessed the highs and lows of St. Olaf finances, from the opening of Buntrock the semester before our freshman year to this years projected fiscal crisis of $3.2 million. While the budget may balance this year, cuts and reductions were made including the beginning of need-sensitive admissions, ending the era in which students were admitted to St. Olaf based on merit alone and not by the size of their parents bank account. St. Olaf must recommit to its policy of need-blind admissions. Without it, the administration will effectively deter students of lower socio-economic means, in turn keeping students of racially and culturally diverse backgrounds from attending St. Olaf.
2. We've said it before and we'll say it again: St. Olaf lends a lot of lip service to diversity, touting our school as inclusive and diverse because there are a bunch of non-Lutherans. We were here at the dawn of the Office of Community Life and Diversity, but we saw Dean Berrio not receive enough money to make substantial changes. Talking about diversity is fine. Writing it into our policies is a start. But visible representation of diversity is needed on this campus, in both the student body and the faculty. And that's going to take the administration putting its money where its mouth is.
3. St. Olaf is generally portrayed as a supportive community. We wont argue against that, but we will say that a supportive community does not mean that each community member thinks and acts alike. We hear a lot about diversity of opinion and critical thought, but we dont see these played out in our day-to-day lives. College is supposed to be about opening our minds and challenging our beliefs. To grow we must embrace diversity of thought and challenge ourselves and others in a welcoming and respectful environment.
4. We got the condom machines, but we didn't know about them for months, and then it was only by word of mouth. We had a thought-provoking art exhibit installed by a group of senior women that commented on the objectification and the socially-constructed obscenity of the female form, but it was taken down after a decidedly significant number of people couldn't handle it. We had an excellent and well-attended conference on sexuality and the Church last year, but our "Sex on the Hill" column was despised by campus representatives of the same Church. The school has consistently shown a lack of respect for the integrity and decision-making abilities of the student body, a lack that is reflected in such decision. We can handle condoms. We can handle art. We can handle frank talk about sex. We want and need to discuss such topics, in order to learn and grow. Censoring or attempted censoring of such issues does not acknowledge one of the primary purposes of St. Olaf College to prepare students to make informed, independent decisions.
Dont get us wrong. We have had a great time at St. Olaf. We have made great friends who balance speaking their minds with unfailing support. We have had classes that challenged us to think abstractly and concretely and grow. We have had faculty members show us immense kindness and needed harshness. We have a lot of great memories. We care about this community.
And thats precisely why we leave you with this list. Weve seen our executive editor role as one in which we identify the positives and negatives of the community, comment on them and offer meaningful solutions. So heres to you, St. Olaf. Weve identified the issues. Now go and do something about them. Find the answers and create an improved St. Olaf for the future.

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According to Professor of dance Janice Roberts, the chair of the department, there are over 800 students who enroll in dance classes each year. Most are not performers. All of them are dancers.
There is an ancient Zimbabwe adage that says, "If you can walk, you can dance." Professor of dance Sherry Saterstrom would agree. She calls dance "a quality of being" and talks about movement "as a way of knowing." This definition differs from the idea that dance is only something that happens on a stage with pretty people in pretty costumes and carefully chosen music.
At St. Olaf, classes are offered in ballet, modern, international and ballroom dance techniques, as well as in dance history and choreography. Saterstrom teaches a number of classes which incorporate highly anatomically-based movement awareness in connection with a school of thought called Body Mind Centering, making the study of dance both highly organic and highly intellectual. Dance is not devoid of spirituality, either. Students can come to "moving meditations" which she leads twice a week, proving there is definitely more to dance than meets the eye.
Most technique classes fulfill the physical activity general education requirement, which is an incentive for some students who enroll. These classes are also required for any member of Companydance, a modern dance company which holds open auditions every fall for a variety of projects. Guest artists, faculty members and senior dance majors choose dancers for their own pieces at this audition. Also, all first-year students can participate in Project Dance, which allows them to work with different faculty members throughout the year on several small projects. The international dance group, Veselica (pronounced "ves-a-leetza"), also has open auditions each fall. It is not necessary to major in dance to participate in any of these groups.
Of the dancers here, Janice Roberts said, "I find myself in awe of the work students are doing." This awe reaches beyond the dance department and even outside the St. Olaf community. The premiere of "Swing a Club: Facing Cancer" by Professor of dance Anthony Roberts last spring received enough high praise to gain support for a national tour of the work over the next few years. This project is one example of the benefits of a welcoming and strong dance community. Roberts's wife, a performer in "Swing a Club," said that "dancers grow together, as we stress that everyone has something to offer." The dancers in this piece include dance majors, non-majors and professors. The ensemble includes students from all four graduating classes, not to mention faculty performers, including Artist in Residence Dona Werner-Freeman of the theater department. The inclusiveness of Roberts' approach to the work is likely one of the reasons it has received such positive attention.
No matter what one's philosophy of dance is, the department opens its doors to anyone who wanders up to the second floor of Dittman.
Another example of the diversity and inclusiveness of the department is the recently christened "Fresh Space" concert, held annually each November and open to anyone who wishes to perform. This year's program included pieces by Veselica, the Ballroom Performance Group the Improv Ensemble, the St. Olaf Dance Team and various works in progress from a choreography class.
The concert began with a dance in traditional Hungarian style performed by members of Veselica, under the direction of Professor of dance Anne von Bibra, wearing bright cultural costumes. A series of playful and thoughtful works were presented by choreography students, a sensual samba by the Ballroom Group and a jazz piece to Usher's "Yeah" by the St. Olaf Dance Team. This showy performance piece stood in contrast to the work immediately following: a perfect example of dance growing out of everyday movement, the "space study" called "Caf Chaos" by choreography students Brittany Shrimpton '08, Jake Fitzpatrick '07, Charity Hall '07 and Amy Trowbridge '05. This piece explored the sounds and movement in the St. Olaf cafeteria, which were brought to life in Studio 1 using trays, cups and silverware all removed from Stav Hall (and then returned, I'm sure). Tapping silverware, talking and dropping cups transitioned into an entertaining, vaguely familiar sort of dance. It was choreographed movement grounded in an experience all members of the audience understood perfectly. It makes sense, too, that if the roots of dance are in the natural capacity and need of all people to move, then everyone who moves should be able to relate to and participate in dance.
If you walk into the dance department looking for highly specialized tricks and exceptional physical skill, you may find it, but you won't find a group of people who glorify "shining stars" competing for the spotlight. In fact, Roberts said, "It doesn't work like that." Here, dancing is about understanding how and why bodies move the way they do and how that movement expresses the way people feel and reflect on our life, community, and identity.
Among dancers at St. Olaf - majors non-majors and professors alike - there exists a chorus of voices valuing thoughtful, emotive and reflective movement as a way of interacting with the world and with each other. Saleha Erdmann '06, a Center for Integrative Studies major who enrolled in a modern dance class this semester, said, "Dancing at St. Olaf is about being part of a physical, emotional community."
There are opportunities for everyone to be part of this community. Dance performances happen constantly. Some come and go without much fuss or advertising. The Improv Ensemble showed up on Election Day in Buntrock Commons to do a short spontaneous dance celebrating democracy and the people who came to exercise their right to vote. "Swing a Club" and "Fresh Space" are two major performances which happened this fall. Twice a year dance comes to Kelsey Theater, with the performances of senior dance majors' choreography projects in December and the well-attended annual Spring Concert at the end of second semester. There will even be two dance performances this week.
This Thursday night, members of the Improv Ensemble and a few alumni will dance with the Percussion Ensemble at their concert at 8:15 p.m. in Urness. Then, on Friday, the annual dancing and drumming community celebration "Gather" will happen in Studio 1 at 7 p.m. The Senior Dance Concert will be December 9 and 10 at 7:30 in Kelsey Theater. For up-to-date performance information, consult the St. Olaf website at www.stolaf.edu/depts/dance.


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Billy Joel Concerto–are there new trends??Posted by Jeffrey Biegel in Uncategorized
I am proudly posting news that the Billy Joel Concerto will be premiered since its conception in October 2005. Naturally, working with his excellent team, I've needed to acquire approval in every step in order to write the piano part, acquire an orchestrator, have Mr. Joel's approval of the orchestrator, synthesized demo, performances and publicist's approval of press releases. Aside from this, I arranged the piano part of Billy's wonderful 'classical' pieces with the notion that with such beautiful melodies and harmonies, no doubt a tribute to Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninoff,Tschaikowsky and others, it's in a new way which I am hoping will develop into a trend of new Romantically inspired works to emerge. The movie soundtrack composers have indeed kept this style alive, and with their delving into the concert hall (like Gershwin did amongst several Paul Whiteman Experiments in Modern Music in the early 20th century), might we be ready for a revival of this movement amongst today's composers? The music of Gershwin, Addinsell, and others of this genre might not be considered the most profound of all music, but hasn't their music helped shape our popular audience attendance, which may have helped entice them to listen to newer forms of music? Is there room for pop icons to follow their heart and write classically contrived melodies? Were they trained classically and might they be able to do this? What might they create? Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer certainly wrote a marvelous piano concerto in 1977, and note John Corigliano popularized himself with The Red Violin. Is there 'classical' ability amongst the many hot-ticket-selling pop stars that can contribute to the concert hall today? Many questions for sure, but is it a way to ensure for future symphony orchestra attendance?
Billy Joel Piano Concerto at Eastern Music Festival
Pianist Jeffrey Biegel Performs World Premiere of Pop Music Icon's New Classical Work on June 24, 2006
Greensboro, NC – The Eastern Music Festival today announced the world premiere of a new and eagerly awaited classical work from pop music star Billy Joel "" his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra "" which will be performed on June 24, 2006 at the War Memorial Auditorium of the Greensboro Coliseum Complex in Greensboro, North Carolina. This unprecedented collaboration between EMF, composer Joel and celebrated American pianist Jeffrey Biegel will open the innovative American festival's 45th season, nationally recognized for both its top classical program and training institute, as well as a diverse schedule of more than 80 events featuring everything from the classics to gospel, blues and Americana.
The June 24 world premiere of Joel's Piano Concerto will feature pianist Jeffrey Biegel as soloist with the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra, the summer Festival's resident orchestra whose members are drawn from top orchestras across the U.S. The performance, which also includes music by Johann Strauss and W.A. Mozart, will be led by guest conductor Stuart Malina, who garnered a "Best Orchestration" trophy at the 57th Annual Tony Awards for his work on Joel's popular Broadway hit "Movin' Out".
In 2001, the classical muse led the six-time Grammy winning pianist singer/songwriter to publish Fantasies and Delusions, a collection of solo piano pieces eight years in the making that was subsequently recorded and spent eighteen weeks as the number one recording on Billboard's "Top Classical Albums" chart that same year. The new Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is drawn from that material — a winsome tableau of four virtuosic movements for piano and orchestra arranged by Jeffrey Biegel and orchestrated by Phillip Keveren. The four movements are: 1) Fantasy (Film Noir); 2) Sorbetto; 3) Reverie (Villa D'Este); and 4) Nunley's Carousel Waltz.
Hailed ""¦a brilliant performer" by Leonard Bernstein, internationally renowned pianist Jeffrey Biegel's brilliant career has been marked by bold, creative achievements and highlighted by a remarkable number of "firsts". In 1997 for example, he performed the American Premiere of the restored 1924 manuscript of Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' with the famed Boston Pops (covered by CNN, ABC-TV, NPR, CBC Canada, Associated Press and USA Today). He has recorded Leroy Anderson's Concerto in C with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin for the Naxos label. He performs the world premiere of Lowell Liebermann's Concerto no. 3 with the Milwaukee Symphony conducted by Andreas Delfs on May 12 to launch the first of 18 co-commissioning orchestra concerts worldwide of the work. His web site is www.cyberecital.com.
Billy Joel has had 33 Top 40 hits and 23 Grammy nominations since signing his first solo recording contract in 1972. In 1990, he was presented with a Grammy Legend Award. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992, Joel was presented with the Johnny Mercer Award, the organization's highest honor, in 2001. In 1999 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and has received the Recording Industry Association of America Diamond Award, presented for albums that have sold over 10 million copies.
Having sold more than 100 million records over the past quarter century, Billy Joel ranks as one of most popular recording artists and respected entertainers in the world. In addition to his Grammy Awards, Joel has earned three Awards For Cable Excellence and has received numerous ASCAP and BMI awards including the ASCAP Founders Award and the BMI Career Achievement Award and, in 1994, was given the 1994 Billboard Century Award. Among his many other awards and honors, Billy Joel has been given a Doctor of Humane Letters from Fairfield University (1991), a Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of Music (1993), and a Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hofstra University (1997) and a Doctor of Music from Southampton College (2000).
Joel has donated his time and resources to a variety of charitable causes outside the realm of his musical career. A longtime advocate for music education, he first began holding "master class" sessions on college campuses more than 20 years ago, giving sessions at colleges across the country and around the world. In addition, he has held classes as a benefit for the STAR Foundation (Standing for Truth About Radiation) and to establish the Rosalind Joel Scholarship for the Performing Arts at City College in New York City.
Billy Joel has recently launched an ongoing educational initiative to provide seed money, musical scholarships, and endowments to a variety of East Coast colleges, universities and music schools.
Tickets for EMF's special June 24 Billy Joel Concerto performance will go on sale beginning [sale date] from the Greensboro Coliseum Box Office, select Triad area Lowe's Food Stores, online from www.tickets.com, or charge by telephone toll-free: 888-397-3100. Ticket prices are $20, $40 and $75; proceeds from the concert will be used to support 2006 School programs and scholarships.
Now in its 45th year, Eastern Music Festival & School is recognized for its prodigious contributions to the field of American music and its commitment to nurturing talented American youth. The Festival brings high artistic quality to both public performances with America's most sought-after artists and the academy for pre-professional students. The 2006 Season (June 24 through July 29) features a bevy of classical music heavyweights, including violinist Joshua Bell, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, the Canadian Brass, pianist Andrè Watts, Pinchas Zukerman, principal conductor Gerard Schwarz, and many others. The Festival also includes a schedule of popular fringe events, featuring everything from alt country and blues, to jazz and gospel. For more information about the Eastern Music Festival or its programs, please visit www.EasternMusicFestival.org, or call toll-free: 1-877-833-6753.


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Export to DEM
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have you searched in the help or just asked?
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33 U.S. Code § 392 - Complaint and answer; jury trial
At the summary trial of offenses against the laws for the protection of persons or property engaged in commerce or navigation, it shall not be necessary that the accused shall have been previously indicted, but a statement of complaint, verified by oath in writing, shall be presented to the court, setting out the offense in such manner as clearly to apprise the accused of the character of the offense complained of, and to enable him to answer the complaint. The complaint or statement shall be read to the accused, who may plead to or answer the same, or make a counterstatement. The trial shall thereupon be proceeded with in a summary manner, and the case shall be decided by the court, unless, at the time for pleading or answering, the accused shall demand a jury, in which case the trial shall be upon the complaint and plea of not guilty.
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INTERVIEW: Attorney Offers Insight in Trevino Murder Trial
The murder trial for Jeffery Trevino continued on Monday. For some insight into the court case, criminal attorney Bruce Rivers stopped by KSTP. He's been in the court room for some of the trial.
Watch his interview in the video box above.
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- INTERVIEW: Defense Attorney Weighs in on Trevino Trial
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Jan 26, 2014 - Jan 31, 2015 Glassblowing Classes Knoxville, TN Come find out what the glassblowing is all about! We will introduce you to the world of hot glass. Learn from an instructor the tools and techniques used in creating handmade glass. Students learn the basics of forming glass tailored to their skill level, from paper weights to goblets. learn more
Feb 21, 2014 - Feb 27, 2015 Equine Elegance Carriage Rides & Tours Jonesborough, TN Carriage Tour learn more
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Mar 22, 2014 - Mar 31, 2015 Patrick Dougherty: Little Bitty Pretty One Nashville, TN Cheekwood is thrilled to welcome North Carolina native Patrick Dougherty to Nashville as our 3rd Annual Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence. Dougherty is known for his giant, tangled works, described by The New York Times as "startling (and delightful) … woolly lairs and wild follies, gigantic snares, nests and cocoons." Over the last two decades, Dougherty has installed over 200 projects in many public and private places including museums, botanic gardens, college campuses, and private residencies. His sculpture at Cheekwood, Little Bitty Pretty One, is inspired by an English Oast house. learn more
Apr 11, 2014 - May 9, 2015 Music on the Mountain at Jim Oliver's Smoke House Monteagle, TN Free family friendly live acoustic music with local and Nashville artists every Fri & Sat night from 6:30 pm - 9:30. Great Food, Lodging and Music at Jim Oliver's Smoke House Restaurant Trading Post on Monteagle. learn more
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Founded in 1836, Union is the oldest independent seminary in the nation
Alumni/ae Relations
Union's Alumni/ae Council is a volunteer group of up to 30 graduates who represent the varied constituencies of Union alumni/ae. Council members are committed to:
Recognizing service by Union alumni/ae to church, academy, and society through the Unitas Distinguished Alumni/ae Award.
Rev. Marvin M. Ellison, Ph.D.,'81Director of Alumni/ae RelationsUnion Theological Seminary
The Rev. Dr. Connie Baugh '76Owner, Out of this Earth PotteryGoshen, MA
Dr. Michael Bourgeois '95Associate Professor of TheologyEmmanuel College75 Queen's Park Crescent East
The Rev. J. Elise Brown '89 Pastor, Advent Lutheran ChurchNew York, NY
The Rev. Christa Fuller Burns '75 Pastor, Faith Presbyterian ChurchBaltimore, MD
Dr. Teresa Delgado '93 '05Director, Peace and Justice StudiesAssociate Professor of Religious StudiesIona CollegeNew Rochelle, NY
Rev. Dr. Mary Foulke '92, '96Senior Associate Rector St. Luke in the Fields ChurchNew York, New York
The Rev. Richard S. Hong '04 Pastor, First Presbyterian ChurchEnglewood NJ
The Rev. David Lewicki '04North Decatur Presbyterian ChurchDecatur, GA
The Rev. Kymberly McNair '08 '09Associate MinisterAntioch Baptist ChurchBedford Hills, NY
Training CoordinatorMy Sisters' PlaceWhite Plains, NY
Maureen M. Morgan '63Musician, worship leader, and eco-justice educator
The Rev. Tom Philipp '62PastorOld South Haven Presbyterian ChurchBrookhaven, NY
The Rev. Seth Pickens '06PastorZion Hill Baptist ChurchLos Angeles, CA
Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters '96, '99, '01Professor of ReligionElon UniversityElon, NC
Dr. David A. Sánchez '08Director, American Cultures Studies ProgramAssociate Professor of Early ChristianityDept. of Theological StudiesLoyola Marymount UniversityLos Angeles, Ca
Rev. Dr. Storm Swain '99 '09Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and TheologyDirector of Anglican StudiesLutheran Theological Seminary at PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA
The Rev. Dr. Linda E. Thomas '81Professor of Theology and AnthropologyLutheran School of Theology at ChicagoChicago, IL
The Rev. Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman '05, '08, '10Assistant Research Professor of Black Church StudiesDirector, Office of Black Church StudiesDuke University, The Divinity SchoolDurham, NC
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Amebiasis is an infection of the intestines caused by the parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
Alternative Names
Amebic dysentery; Intestinal amebiasis
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Entamoeba histolytica can live in the large intestine (colon) without causing disease. However, sometimes, it invades the colon wall, causing colitis, acute dysentery, or long-term (chronic) diarrhea. The infection can also spread through the blood to the liver and, rarely, to the lungs, brain or other organs.
This condition occurs worldwide, but it is most common in tropical areas with crowded living conditions and poor sanitation. Africa, Mexico, parts of South America, and India have significant health problems associated with this disease.
Entamoeba histolytica is spread through food or water contaminated with stools. This contamination is common when human waste is used as fertilizer. It can also be spread from person to person -- particularly by contact with the mouth or rectal area of an infected person.
Risk factors for severe amebiasis include:
- Alcoholism
- Cancer
- Malnutrition
- Older or younger age
- Pregnancy
- Recent travel to a tropical region
- Use of corticosteroid medication to suppress the immune system
In the United States, amebiasis is most common among those who live in institutions and people who have anal intercourse.
Most people with this infection do not have symptoms If symptoms occur, they are seen 7 to 10 days after being exposed to the parasite.
Mild symptoms:
- Abdominal cramps
- Diarrhea
- Passage of 3 - 8 semiformed stools per day
- Passage of soft stools with mucus and occasional blood
- Fatigue
- Excessive gas
- Rectal pain while having a bowel movement (tenesmus)
- Unintentional weight loss
Severe symptoms:
- Abdominal tenderness
- Bloody stools
- Passage of liquid stools with streaks of blood
- Passage of 10 - 20 stools per day
- Fever
- Vomiting
Signs and tests
Examination of the abdomen may show liver enlargement or tenderness in the abdomen.
Tests include:
- Blood test for amebiasis
- Examination of the inside of the lower large bowel (sigmoidoscopy)
- Microscope examination of stool samples, usually several days apart
Treatment depends on the severity of infection. Usually, metronidaloze is given by mouth for 10 days.
If you are vomiting, you may need to receive medications through a vein (intravenously) until you can tolerate them by mouth. Antidiarrheal medications are usually not prescribed because they can make the condition worse.
After treatment, the stool should be rechecked to make sure that the infection has been cleared.
Expectations (prognosis)
The outcome is usually good with treatment. Usually, the illness lasts about 2 weeks, but it can come back if treatment is not given.
- Liver abscess
- Medication side effects, including nausea
- Spread of the parasite through the blood to the liver, lungs, brain, or other organs
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if you have persistent diarrhea.
When traveling in tropical countries where poor sanitation exists, drink purified or boiled water and do not eat uncooked vegetables or unpeeled fruit. Public health measures include water purification, water chlorination, and sewage treatment programs.
Safer sex measures, such as the use of condoms and dental dams for oral or anal contact, may help prevent infection.
Schuster FL, Glaser CA. Amebiasis. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 373.
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.


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Abe Yoshiharu -The Missing Fourth Leaf
The Missing Fourth Leaf
Abe Yoshiharu
I'm looking all over a four leaf clover that I overlooked before
One is for sunshine the second is rain third is for roses bloom in the spring
No need explain the one remaining is somebody I adore
I'm looking over for a four leaf clover that I overlooked before
Carl Belew
from wiki:
According to tradition, such leaves bring good luck to their finders, especially if found accidentally. According to legend, each leaflet represents something: the first is for fame, the second is for wealth, the third is for love, and the fourth is for health.
Listening to this album was even more of a revelation to me than discovering Unicorn, and that is saying something. I was completely astonished and instantly addicted. And I am hopelessly torn, because of course I want Unicorn to keep making music and performing for ever, but even more I want Abe Yoshiharu to make more of his wonderful music and to sing! Five years is too long between albums!
I'd listened to A, Singles, and ABEX GO GO, and loved each one more than the last, but NOTHING prepared me for the awesomeness of The Missing Fourth Leaf.
Of all the music I have listened to, this is the most inspiring creatively, and Abe has the most brilliant genius of a musical talent I have encountered anywhere. His music is truly my kind of music and there is nothing else out there like it. It's like the music of my dreams come to life.
I can't find any lyrics on line for The Missing Fourth Leaf at all anywhere, so totally in the dark on that front. If anyone can help with Abe solo translations I would be so very happy! I did discover that two of his albums have English translations in the booklets (Rain and 44 Magnum). That was MOST appreciated. I do wonder if the hard copy of Fourth Leaf has them too…I bought mine from International I-Tunes. I hope you will show some support for Abe and do this as well. I-tunes has named the album The Missing Forth Leaf and I have taken the liberty of correcting the spelling. The actual Japanese title translates as a "Forest of Four Leaf Clovers".
EDIT: Just after I posted this review, I received a message with lyric translations from hgmega , which was such a wonderful surprise! :) Apparently the lyrics had originally been translated into Korean by her friend Minimini, and she then translated them into English. I am very grateful to them both for their efforts, and I have posted all the lyrics as a foot note to the review, so everyone can enjoy them.
I need to mention WILDFIRE. Why is it out of print? That anything he has made could languish OOP boggles my mind. So please rerelease this one.
Having heard all his other solo albums now I'd say Abe just keeps getting more and more amazing with each album, but I do have a special soft spot for his acoustic album 風花雪月. So very beautiful!
1. Undo
This reminds me of my childhood. The bass drum is like a tropical thunder storm in the distance, the rain is pouring from a hole in the gutter and my father is practicing the piano upstairs. Oh and then the Aliens from The Dark Side of the Moon landed…
2. 宣告
Senkoku is the stand out supreme master of the universe track on an album full of gems. I've always had a big interest in the interface of technology and organic music and this is a premium and ground breaking example. Being a master of both, which is very rare, he manages to combine the two like no-one else has even imagined is possible. This is ten minutes of total bliss. It feels like he could expand this style and concept to fill a whole series of albums. I wish he would…he truly has unlimited potential as an artist. His unbound innovative imagination makes him unique. And this song is his most unique piece of uniqueness.
3. 風船とキャンパス
Balloons on Canvas
Gorgeous singing. I LOVE his voice best of all voices! Expressive power of a great and vital heart. That's what it is. Attention to the finest detail of every nuance of speech. The way he breathes. So warm it's like he is a living furnace. It's a musical education. I love this song too, very, very much!
4. チェーン
Dub style bass orgy song. Grows on you and provides an interesting contrast, but seems a little out of place with the album so far. A bit too repetitive at times perhaps.
5. コンクリートの水たまり
Concrete Puddle.
Slice of life sound scape. More rain and a hopeless sounding telephone call. Just dump that bitch…
6. Trauma
This is a concept/sound track. With the Floydian heartbeat and a train like sound. Ominous foghorn noises and a girl giggling without sounding amused. There is some vocals but they aren't front and center. Clocks ticking and engaged signals. Time is running out.
7. 虹色のパレット
Iris Palette…i-tunes version Rainbow Palette
We are suddenly cheesed off into a slightly over cheerful pop style. But Abe can and will force you to love any style, and as soon as he starts singing we forgive him the shock. But I do feel often the need to move onto track 8, which seems to pick up the knitting where he left it at the end of the lovely track 3.
8. 神の粒
Gods Grain (Gods Pill)
This one fits well into the saikou Senkoku opus. It's quite radical and totally original, and of course wickedly naughty too. Really a very inspired and creative use of the human voice. He is lifting the repressed lid off Pink Floyd, which was exactly what needed to happen to them. They always sounded like they were in pain and frustrated, but Abe is set free into ecstasy. And so are we.
9. Are you OK?
Back to the pure heart soul again. Love that concertina. Abe can even make a squeeze box sound sexy. He's that warm. And that guitar solo is a killer! This is a long gorgeous winding epic. I love it! But again it seems to want a whole new album to itself, with all it's pure and lovely friends. Superb though really, wherever you find it, you would be pleased to hear this song. Abe must be a total delight to see performing live. This is the core of his greatness I think. You can only really seriously and effectively use technology when you can do just as well without it.
10. Redo
For god sake get that gutter fixed and put a sock in the baby.
11. セイリング
A version of the Rod Stewart song, sung differently and in Japanese of course. Love those incredible sustained notes! Vocals are as warm and invigorating as a summer breeze. Sailing boats are magical symbols of freedom for me due to my childhood spent mucking about in boats. And the sea….
I love how the sound of the foghorn merges into the piano, connecting these two songs. He has used these kind of sonic bridges very skillfully throughout the album, so that it has become much more than a collection of songs.
The piece itself is a highly passionate modern classical instrumental piano piece. Abe has a melancholy and romantic Schubert like nostalgia running through this album. The obvious depth of his musical training and the fact that his mother started giving him piano lessons at the age of 4 isn't the only reason he is so unique and gifted, but it certainly adds to the mix! All the elements have come together in this highly civilized and yet extremely wild individual. He is the perfect paradoxical mix of training, a liberated questing mind, and an exceptionally courageous spirit.
…Come closer.
「暁は渦巻いて かななかと忍び寄る
(The dawn comes noiselessly in swirling storm
But the flowers in the field everywhere become extinct)
Who are you??
Who the hell are you!!
(Fates blossom darkly and fall reflecting each other
The grave blooming in the sky become extinct)
Who are you??
Who the hell are you!!
Tick-tock tick-tock the sound of beating heart is annoying,
isn't it?
Creaky creak the sound of living is annoying, isn't it?
───────────────Balloons and Canvas
-Multi-coloured balloons in a row,
drawing lines stretching over the white sky-
Yes, that's right, the child himself observed the cloud
Disregarding his bleeding knee, he kept running after it
Jumped into the sky running west and disappeared
It will be sunny tomorrow for sure
Guarded by excessively great power,
the pure ignorance let the days pass by leisurely
Oh yeah! Oh yeah!
Oh yeah! The world is here
Oh yeah! Oh yeah!
Oh yeah! You can go anywhere
-Multi-coloured balloons in a row,
drawing lines stretching over the white sky-
On the way back ate flowers and berries
Misty rain fell on that cheek on tiptoes
Between the heart that expands and changes and the
Spreading seeds rushing forward to that crag in the
mountain, yeah-!
Guarded by excessively great power,
the pure ignorance let the days pass by leisurely
Oh yeah! Oh yeah!
Oh yeah! The world is here
Oh yeah! Oh yeah!
Oh yeah! You can go anywhere
Show me your balloons, show me
Fuji's Susono(name of a place) is the end of the sea
Become one with my balloons
Become wind at the end of the cloud
-Multi-coloured balloons in a row,
drawing lines stretching over the white sky-
"Someone like you
Don't have to come
That's complete misunderstanding
Aren't you ashamed?"
"Hey, it's, hey
Hey, it's still there
That clover
'Cause it's not four-leafed"
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, …
"Cumbersome branches just get cut"
"The water here's delicious delicious…"
───────────────Puddle on the concrete
When you think about it, yes, precious things
For example balance, or
Being able to feel
The deliciousness of water in a cup
The piano actually even the fingers too
Everything is utterly soaked
Amidst the concrete
Only your skin is soft
I put an umbrella over you who is so
Not even the car knows
In this world where you can't see
Even a damn exit
You know, on that day why did you
Tip the receiver?
In the consciousness rising from a distance
The siren closed in
I won't act as I please
Since I can't anymore
Don't cut away this defiled me
Tick-tock tick-tock the sound of beating heart is annoying,
isn't it?
Creaky creak the sound of living is annoying, isn't it?
- Look at the sky -
───────────────Rainbow-coloured Palette
You, who like TV games, always
Ask me to take over at scary bits
The arm that holds me tight is all soft and smooth
This is the blessing(冥利: means the biggest blessing that being can rightly attain) of man, this is happiness
Crossing thousands years of time and now
Here lies sea and the light continues
Waves reach higher and higher and accept the circle
People also keep on singing and accept the love
The palette that flows from the past to the future
Amid overflowing hopes and meetings
Waking up early using a bit of willpower
Soon I will discover it
Or maybe not-.
Looking at the rising clouds, crushing the cigarette underfoot
"There's no time" did someone say that?
The palette that flows from the past to the future
Amid usual conversations and confusions
Each colour has a life dwelling within that
Cross over and blend together and touch the eyelids
Brighter palette, brighter than yesterday, than today
If only I can create a rainbow
-Similar to the one I saw that day-
Soon I will discover it, soon I will meet it
───────────────God's Grain
What is this? Where am I?
I can see the bit of my flesh that was cut away
"Is the sound of beating heart annoying?"
Where's water the pill the white God's grain
Taste of aluminium melted on my tongue
Again closed in, leaned, inflated, and saw
"Is the sound of living annoying?"
The umbrella the piano the wall wants God's grain
White white white white white white white…
I miss you my friends
Still happy while one, myself got missing…
Presently the balloon bounced and disappeared
───────────────Are you OK?
One evening for a
Definitely trivial reason, I ran away
Time when apple trees bear apples, maybe a recollection of light and shadow
Forgot how much time has passed
My young self crouched down and cried
Nan's voice calling me again and again, in that shadow of terribly red setting sun
Are you OK? "…My gums are numb"
Frogs came out on the roadside
And soon the sky changed, the signal for rain
Was engrossed and began catching them, it rained like crazy fierce and sharp
Are you OK? "…You still got that palette??
From that thing controlling rock'n'roll in the end
From those guys wearing golden suits
Because I couldn't stand a future like that
I ran out and surely…
Are you OK? "…It'd take 4 hours, right?"
No matter where you are at now
That is where you must be now
If there is a God above
Then surely there is no disaster you can't overcome
This life this reality now
That is so as it is
This life this truth now
Draw it as it is
"With a four leafed clover on your chest"
"Can you see?"
"Four leafed clover, it existed."
Spread your wings shine fly towards it
Sea and sky of Shonan(name of a place) continue to speak more and more
Flowers blooming in the fields
The key that was lost
They are all in your heart
Sailing oh sailing
Can you see the good wave
Sailing oh sailing
Come closer to your sea
Things I can think of are, yes, all embarassing
Yet just because you are here I can shine
Get it? This sky
This shining sea
Everything is in your heart
Sailing oh sailing
CAn you hear the good wave
Sailing oh sailing
Come closer to your sea
"Thank you…"
So I will always
Always here I will sing
Waiting for your true self
With warm and true heart
Sailing oh sailing
You can see the good wave
Come closer to your sea
Come closer… to your sea
Masatoshi Mashima - RAW LIFE ~Revisited~
Masatoshi Mashima - RAW LIFE ~Revisited~
真島昌利/RAW LIFE -Revisited-
"I'd rather be killed by excitement
than by boredom."
ROAR LIFE I think he means ;p
I love the reverby echoing effects on his vocals. And the funky seventies style guitar.
2. 俺は政治家だ
Ore wa Seijikada
This is also very seventies in style. The chorus reminds me of Staying Alive XD. Not sure I like it that much. But then from the title I don't think I'm meant to. It gets much sweeter around 3 minutes. He is extremely politically aware and outspoken, and also very very cynical….
I'm a Politician
by Mashima Masatoshi
I'm a politician. Give me money.
I want to accomplish splendid works.
I'm a politician. Give me money.
I will clean up the rotten crumbs once and for all.
I'm a politician. Give me money.
I will shut up the big-mouth sluggers with money.
Formality always has no heart.
Reality always surpasses theories.
I'm a politician. Give me money.
Oh Oh Oh Oh Hidin' in the night.
We want money after all, don't we?(Kane ga hoshii jya-nai?)
Oh Oh Oh Oh Hidin' in the night.
We want money after all, don't we?(Kane ga hoshii jya-nai?)
I'm a politician. Give me money.
if you believe in me.
Before greed, ambition tumbles down.
When supporting this, you can't support that.
I'm a politician. Give me money.
Democracy but(demo) living is good(kurashi ee)?
Democracy but(demo) gloomy(kurashee)
Technology, Biology, Bureaucracy
Ultra C, Breezy(sugasugashii), Vitamin C
Maybe this, maybe that… (It) makes me sick!
I'm a politician. I'm sincere.
I'm a saint. I'm pure.
I'm a politician. Do you want to be it?
I'm a politician. Will you join us?
GO!GO! Hedoroman
He is quite experimental too. Using a lot of different sounds in these songs. This video is translated on Youtube and it seems to be about corporate shits. Hedoroman I suppose is the capitalist shit (correct me if I am wrong) fucking the whole planet up just to get rich.
Ego de Buttobase
LOL! Ego on overdrive. I wonder who this song is about. I like this one. It's dark and bluesy and funky all at the same time. Not sure about the weird solo minute long solo starting around the half way point of the first minute. What is that instrument? I don't like…argh there it goes again. I'm in UR song, hurting UR ears.
Kashikoi Bokutachi
AWW I like Marcy when he's being Mushi. He gives great heart. In fact its quite suprising to hear a B type (aka Bastard type) sing with so much genuine emotion.
Entotsu no Arumachi
Ska/reggae style now. This is really sweet. Love the lead guitar in this. It's so subtle and resonant. And the vocals too, which build most satisfyingly. Everything about this song is highly impressive.
Drive Shiyouyo
Mushi Marcy again now. Twee and pretty but really adorable! I actually think he is a real sweetie. I am sure he loves his mum anyway, which is the most important thing.
Johojidaino Yabanjin
Bleh I can't think of anything sensible to say tonight. This song is cool, and has a wild bass twang going on. Reminds me of that New Order style galloping bass, but much more upbeat. And it kind of wobbles out at you in the strangest way. Must be some kind of weird effect I suppose.
I love this song. Great solo at 3.50. He is really SUCH a talented guitarist.
Hmm opening reminds me of Bow Wow Wow. Remember them? XDD Not just the opening either. What was that song called? Oh yeah. I Want Candy!
This has some fun experimental stuff. He is really playing with the panning.
Me likes the harpsichord. This is a winner of a song generally! Really superbly crafted gospelly tune that infects your brain like a virus. I'd say it's the highlight of of the album. Another Mushi Marcy song, but very uplifting and inspirational. He doesn't do gloomy, thankfully. Here it is translated…such a wonderful performance!
RAW LIFE (Reprise)
Pan and scan! I really really like this song. Actually thinking about the guitar riff it reminds me a little of The Goodies theme XD Which makes sense because I did find a pic of Marcy wearing a Anywhere, Anytime t-shirt recently. And there's even a didgeridoo in this version :D It's a really creative effort. He uses mad effects with taste and style.
Desu Metal
And here he demonstrates that yes he can play metal if he wants (but of course). Actually this is really cool :D I wish he'd do it more often. And it's funny too. Great guitar work! Very short :(
A bonus live cd added to this reissue.
Kyujitsu no Yume
Adorable. Sunshiney holiday dream. Nostalgic violin sounds and crooning of the gruff variety. I am almost tempted to whisper the word cliche…but I can't say that, it's too sweet. And really is there anything new under the sun?
A real heart song. The violin is still around being sentimental, but this time I think it's all a bit fresher. Actually the violin contrasts with Marcys vocal style very effectively.
Totemo Samuihi
He has a very warm rich speaking voice. And this is a very warm song. Designed I suppose to heat you up on the Extremely Cold Day.
This has such a beautiful vocal melody. I adore it.
Hanakoganei Breakdown
Now the violin is really coming into it's own. This is one of the best songs of all. GODZ! What a vocal melody. Makes me really want to sing. Such emotive guitar. WOW! This is most certainly FOR REAL. Maybe all that blood type stuff is total bullshit after all. Though sadly I am such a typical A type.
BUT I DIGRESS….this is a perfect song in every respect. I LOVE IT. What more can I say?
Bouncing right on. This is very cute :D Very down home. Again a really killer melody. I don't think I've ever come across a man with such an unending supply of wicked tunes. This song does actually make me very happy.
7. 踊り踊れば(シングル・カップリング)
Odori Odoreba
Ahhhh yes! This is the one I wanted to talk about the most. See, I spent my early childhood in Central Africa and I was raised on this kind of music. I know EXACTLY where this is coming from, and I love him to bits for it. This kind of guitar sound makes me so blissful. It originates in The Congo (Zaire).
*cries with happiness and nostalgia*
Well this song was made famous by The Clash but it was originally recorded by Sonny Curtis and The Crickets. I've always loved it, and The Clash too. This is a kind of hill billy version of the song and quite different really.
Anyway that's your lot for now. Time for me to go.
Take care peeps!
Kuroyume - Nakigara O….
Note: a lot of repetitiousness here…one thing I have realized if you do something enough you get better at it. My later reviews are much fruitier. Nakigara O…about the corpse….one thing you can say about Kiyoharu, his sense of drama is intuitive.
words: Kiyoharu, music: Shin
Eastern European style; mad jangly guitars and ominous heart attack drumming. Very complex with lots of shifts in pace and tone. Just my kind of thing.
2. 終幕の時
Shuumaku no toki.
(Time of ending)
words: Kiyoharu, music: Shin
Ooooo….I love this too. Alot. I can hear a little early Joy Division and New Order, but they never had Kiyoharu! He sings laments with such vigor. He has so much fight, which takes him way beyond Goth. He has no self indulgence to his darkness, no self pity…I like that!
3. Dance 2 Garnet
words: Kiyoharu, music: Hitoki
Actually the whole cd is awesome. You can see I've given up the star system. There's no songs that wouldn't get one anyway. It's ALL very good. Garnet was Kiyos band before Kuroyume, with Hitoki but not Shin.
4. 讃美歌
words: Kiyoharu, music: Shin
Slower, as you'd expect, but magnificent. GREAT vocals, even for Kiyo.
5. 十字架との戯れ
Jyuujika tono tawamure
(Play with the cross)
words: Kiyoharu, music: Hitoki
Very good! Hitokis' style is quite different to Shins, which is nice. This is a faster, punkier track as Hitokis' usually are, and Kiyos vocals are freer.
"Loving suicide, so laugh'n die"
6. Misery
words: Kiyoharu, music: Shin
*sighs* delicate, sensational guitar, perfect for Kiyos' lush vocal melodies.
"Sad please, need misery…"
7. If
words: Kiyoharu, music: Shin
As much as I love Corkscrew, this really is the most perfect Kuroyume album ever made. New Order again, but even more Scarlatti. Shins guitar often sounds like a harpsichord.
8. Jesus
words: Kiyoharu, music: Hitoki
Shin manages to sound quite trancey too. This is bass driven and complex, full of interesting breakdowns.
Shinainaru Death Mask
(Death mask which becomes love)
words: Kiyoharu, music: Kiyoharu
Kiyo song is one of the best, maybe even my favourite (but I would say that…) It's true though. It has the extra pace and extra mad vocals which make it stand out.
10. 亡骸を
Nakigara O…
(About the corpse)
words: Kiyoharu, music: Shin
*sighs and weeps* I think I've run out of enthusiasms for now, but this one really deserves them. Kiyo layers up those vocal tracks brilliantly.
Kuroyume - Ikete Ita Chuuzetsu Ji
Ikete Ita Chuuzetsu Ji
(the abortion who survived)
1. 黒夢
Words: Kiyoharu, Music: Hitoki
(Black Dream)
This is the song that the band was named after, and you can see why! It's fuckin brilliant ( i should stop swearing so much :D) Heart attack drumming and the most amazing sense of build up. Overlaid vocals to die for. Kiyo is on top of his game here. He really goes off at the end..the whole effect is spectacular. You can only wish someone had given them a bit more money to record this with.
2. 狂い奴隷
Words: Kiyoharu, Music: Shin
(Deviation Slave)
I love this song SO much. A little heavier than the last one. They are so complex these songs, it boggles my mind and that little guitar break/trill is just gorgeous. Shin is edging out Cipher as my all time favourite guitarist. He is perfect for Kiyo.
Words: Kiyoharu, Music: Hitoki
Not as strong as the last two, but still good. Lacks the distinctive features that would make it great.
4. .楽死運命
Words: Kiyoharu, Music: Shin
(Easy Dead Destiny)
Now this I do love. Wow! First bar and I am hooked. Intricate, emotional and full of build up. Wish I knew what he was saying :D Love is like a what? I think I would have brought his vocals out a bit more in the mix. Love the drumming on this ^^.
Shinainaru Death Mask
(Death mask which becomes love)
words: Kiyoharu, music: Kiyoharu
I reviewed this one for Nakigara O..sort of :D..it's an awesome song but the Nakigara version is a nicer recording.
6. 鏡になりたい
(We want to be the mirror)
Here we go, lushest song in the known universe. Very gentle and sweet at first, with all that acoustic stuff and Kiyo doing a wonderfully sexy spoken voice over. Waaah!! This song is probably the main reason I wanted to review this album.
Anyway he proceeds to GO OFF in a fantastically emotional fashion. I really have never heard anything quite like it before. A lovely jangly soft guitar just goes delightfully. The only complaint I have is that this song is WAY too short :O
Kuroyume - Chuzetsu
Maxi Single HR-004 (Haunted House Records)
Chuzetsu (Abortion)
Wheeeeeeee! What a fantastic song. Strongly Eastern European in flavour. Brilliant, mournful and highly skillful. Frantic drumming, intricate spiralling guitar riffs and track apon track of overlaid vocals. Just superb! What is it about Kiyo? He can pour out his most bitter feelings without ever being anything but charming. He is so conscious of his audience and of making sure they are totally awed.
2. 浮遊悲
Fuuyuuhibi (Floating Sadness)
Oh yes! The guitar broadens out a bit here, a little slower and more massive, but still in Shins bewitching whirling dervish style.
3. In Sky
A little less exciting, but still a good song.
Kinniku-shoujotai - Kinshou no Daisuigin (2cd)
Kinniku-shoujotai - Kinshou no Daisuigin (2cd)
Yeah yeah I know its a best of but it gives me a chance to get a few of my O-Ken (Ohtsuki Kenji) thoughts down. It's an incomplete review and I'll admit, a rather silly one, but oh well..I am a silly person XDD
Disc 1
1. 元祖 高木ブー伝説
ganso Takagi Boo densetsu
In the Takagi Bu Tradition
Takagi Bu being a 60s rockstar/TV Comedian.
Kenjis' vocals in this remind me a lot of Bruce Lees' Dragon screaming. I'm quite sure that is intentional. I love the sheer force of this song.
2. 星の夜のボート
hoshi no yoru no booto
The Boat of Stellar Night
OH-Ken! No-one can emo as sweetly as he. Resonances ~ Heart ~ Energy. He's got the lot. Really fucking impressive I have to say. He knows how to keep his channels open. I've never heard him be less that pure in soul, even when he's singing the same song for the 100th time, he still manages to give it something fresh.
3. サボテンとバントライン
saboten to banto rain
Cactus and Bunt Cat (well….)
This is a sweet little ditty, and I find the subject matter very amusing. O-Ken sings it with an innocence that makes it very charming. He understands that the highest art is always childlike in its simplicity and honesty. Straight from above to below…O-Ken is the perfect Shaman/priest.
4. 釈迦
Gautama Buddha (!)
This is the live ass shaking song and very effective as that. Very African in influence, which is another element that appeals to me very strongly. The glorious sight of O-Ken in his leopard skin beret stomping about to this song will bring the Zulu out in anyone XDD
Seriously though I need to watch a live of this again soon.
Odoru dame Ningen
Dance of the Useless Person
The song that turned me into an O-Ken fanatic. More Africanity, more innocence, more ass shaking. A vocal part to die for…what more could you ask for. Building the energy up and up in the usual King Show style. They all do such great Backing Vocals, which is a sure sign of a truly wonderful band. O-Ken is SOOOOO masculine here, it is stunning. And that squealing guitar riff sets it all off to perfection. At about 4 minutes he goes off in spectacular style >< WOW (by O-Ken ^^)
6. 風車男ルリヲ(ライブ・バージョン
kazaguruma otoko (live version)
Windmill man RURIWO (live version)
Wah! I love this ;_; It's so urgent and ominous. O-Ken is being all dramatic and Kurt Weillish and the band is pounding like crazy. It feels as if you are charging down the Italian Alps with Hannibal and his elephants.
7. 氷の世界
kouri no sekai
The Icy World
Hubeke stuff. Funky, hard, sweet, exciting..this is a truly wonderful Yosui Inoue cover. He was obviously thinking of O-Ken when he wrote it XD O-Ken always improves on the songs he covers, even when they belong to someone as stellar as the Baki man. To me this is a sign of the highest intelligence, because hell the Baki man = GOD. Fumihiko is a very impressive guitarist indeed, with a very unique style. There is a lovely solo of his just before the 3 minute mark. O-Ken always shows remarkably good taste in band mates.
8. 戦え!何を!?人生を!
tatakae! nani wo! ? jinsei wo!
Fight! What!? Life!
This is sounding very rap influenced but in a good way. Kenji is able to meld lots of different styles together incredibly successfully. Traditional Japanese X rock X rap X punk X metal X classical X jazz…you name it he'll use it, which is yet another sign of a truly creative mind at work. Genres and definitions are for lesser artists. True genius accepts no boundaries.
batoru yarou ichizerozeroma nin no aniki
battle guy ? — 1 million big brothers
( バトル野郎~100万人の兄貴~ )
COOL XD Have stick a few more of these through nifty.
Go to the King Show site for the original Kanji and a full disco.
10. じーさんはいい塩梅
jiisan wa iianbai
Mr. Ji - is good arrangement.
Well this is silly but fun. I remember this PV was one of the first things I watched and I just thought WAH! These guys are totally adorable, especially that maniac with the grey streaked ponytail XD
11. 暴いておやりよドルバッキー
abai te o ya riyo
Will animal dollar BAKKI
Cute silly and childish. And very funky too. O-Ken wrote it btw. PV is very amusing…
12. 死んでゆく牛はモー
shin de yuku ushi ha moo
The cow which dies and dies is MO <.<
OMG OMG OMG this is the heart breaking one ;_; In which O-Ken demonstrates his exquisite emotional vocal style. Magnifique!
13. 君よ!俺で変われ!
kun yo! ore de kaware!
you — ! Change by me!
Love this song too and O-Ken wrote it too which is always a good sign, but I am finding it hard to think of anything sentient to say about it. I'll probably come back and fill in these reviews later. OMG OMG OMG though, this is just stunning >< I will say that. Brings tears to my crocodile eyes.
14. ゴーゴー蟲娘
Go - Go Musume
Another superb song..this is real Best Of in every sense. My god no-one can make songs like this except O-Ken
Disc 2
15. 釈迦
Again… but I'm told these are Indie versions on the second disc.
16. 高木ブー伝説
Takagi Buu Densetsu
… a really frikkin bouncy version.
ORE WA TAKAGI BU DAN!! With some wonderful Satoshi Mishiba piano.
17. 遺言動物ドルバッキー
abai te o ya riyo
Dollar Bakki song again.
Kegawa no Maries - Faust
1. おはようミカ
Ohayou Mika
A glam rock fans wet dream. Voice is quite harsh, aggressive, snarling, all raw rock star ego. But its also spectacular in its honesty, and incredibly versatile too. Ryohei Shima is one of the most talented and charismatic vocalists to appear this century. He has the gift of chaos, a discordian pope if you like, but he also shows a vulnerable side, hiding away behind his hair. It's so charming! And his band is just superb! They've really got the lot.
2. 人生
This song is on fire! Punk glam orgy of sound. The bass player is so powerful! Women always make the best bass players. It's because we have the rhythm in our hips.
3. ハートブレイクマン
Heartbreak Man
Sudden change of pace. This is SO Flippers Guitar. All smooth and seductive. A glittering gentle fishy song.
Hi Seisan Teki Ningen
All noise and chaos. This is more Hanatarash, right down to the Eye style dragon shrieking.
I fucking adore this song! Very very impressive. Everyone is shining on this track. That hip grinding bass demon most of all. And the guitar stuff that starts about one and a half minutes is just fantastic! Wow! To be honest I am shocked. I thought rock and roll was dead and buried, but seemingly it aint! :D Really goes off around 3 minutes, turning into a blistering psychedelic masterpiece. These guys have all the intuitive psychedelic brilliance of Rallizes de Nudes.
Raidein (Ai To Warai No Road)
Another great song. Very Lust for Life, very get up and dance you bastards. I really think they are doing something totally unique and new here, for all their retro referencing. It's a mutant sound of epic and future shocking proportions. I can't wait for the next album :D Not to mention the world tour, because I'm telling you, everyone would love this band. And I think the time is over when language barriers or corporate hegemonies have any relevance whatsoever.
Note: ah wishful thinking….all that happened was that they went major and got all the life sucked out of them. Now they are disbanding and presumably Ryohei will start a solo career. It is rather lovely how he has blossomed though, and stopped hiding behind that hair.
Gargoyle - Ha~Yaiba
Written in 2007. This review made me laugh…it's so over the top! But I hold to my opinion totally. Gargoyle are awesome! And Kiba was a great magical inspiration to the birth of my Tarot Deck…magical and aesthetic. He is the original Hierophant.
Gargoyle = intelligent measured aggression. You know a true warrior never gets angry. To get angry and lose control is to instantly lose the battle. Gargoyle know this. They are forceful, but calm and thoughtful at the same time. Very Wen Wu!
I was in the mood for a little aggression when this cd arrived. Not many of my favourite artists are into that now so it's really good to have them around, doing what they do best, and so very brilliantly too.
And it's Kiba that really makes it all. He is such a kingly soul. Gentle and gentlemanly. The exact opposite of the archetypal metal singer in every possible way.
Gargoyle do work to a formula, and that is very intricate thrash metal, but they play around with it a great deal, and they are overflowing with heart and soul. I am by NO MEANS a metal head (in fact I unilaterally despise all Western metal and I always have) so perhaps genre isn't really an issue here. Though Gargoyle play Metal style, the content is more traditional, folk influences. What really matters most is the level of intelligence and the quality of the emotion.
This feels to me like the best album Gargoyle have made in a very long time. Everything they do is glorious, but this…I dunno, it's really really special. It's one of those discs that when you get to the end you think, fuck, it's finished already? I WANT MORE! It's just so fresh and exhilaratingly energetic, I am literally bouncing in my chair while listening. It is wild dancing dervish music, sufi stomping of the first order. I can only wonder how Bacchanalian their gigs must be, because no-one could resist dancing to this music.
And Katsuji, well, he is now officially my favourite drummer. How could he not be? He is the backbone of both my favourite bands. Anyway, onwards and upwards….
1. ジェットタイガー
Jet Tiger
Oi oi oi Jet Tiger! Go, go, go Jet Tiger!
A truly stunning opening track! Take no fucking prisoners :D
I Love it. Kibas' voice is evolving in rather incredible ways. Always a unique instrument, it has become something quite ominous and electric here. Judicious use of effects no doubt, but also incredible skill.
2. 花蝶風月
Hana Chou Fuugetsu
How very strange the title of this song is to me o.o… It perfectly describes a painting I was working on in the weeks leading up to the arrival of this disc.
Now this song is quite aggressive still (considering the flowery name) and the guitar work is mad and wild (as you'd expect). The drumming! JESUS! It's like a heart attack! Kiba is running the show of course, as is his right. Everything is designed to complement him and this it does quite perfectly.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! The Bass! The Bass! This song is like an earthquake. Elemental, that is the best description I can think of for Gargoyle. Kiba is like The Bull From The Sea. This is very ecstatic in feel. Very exhuberant. Actually that is a feature of the whole album. A kind of irrepressible energy and joy. So wonderful! :)
4. アイコノクラズム
Smashing up the Idols, yeah! Let's do it! This is so subterranean, and then Kiba lets loose with this incredible soaring, resonant vocal melody. It's so fucking awesome. More earthquake heart attack drumming! Lol! Wow, where does Katsuji find the energy? Destroy!! This has trademark intricate and yet heavy guitar craziness that I expect from Gargoyle, but even more incredible than ever. It's like they've taken everything that's great about themselves and turned up the volume on it. They have exceeded themselves in brilliance, and lets face it, in their field, who else did they have to beat? Finally I will say again OMGAH @ that drumming.
5. 太陽の道
Taiyo no Michi
This song is love sex and the future all rolled up together! Possibly the best song they have ever recorded, and most certainly my favourite at this very moment. Jesus, Kiba! Jesus! Your singing! I love it! So special! Raw power plus the most sentient intelligence. Heart and soul ON FIRE! What more can I say? I drink to you!
The bass is just spell binding too. Bloody hell, I just can't express how I feel about this adequately. Words are such a second rate art form.
6. 韋駄天
Loving the guitar riff. It's circular and insane, and bouncy and invigorating. And here comes the doramu!
This song is very good too. In fact there really isn't a song on this disc that doesn't awe me. The bass is TO DIE FOR, especially around the 2 minute mark. I'm not so hat stand about Kentaros' guitar solos, but I am sure he will improve with age ;)
7. 猛毒少年
Moudoku Shounen
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! LOVE THIS ONE SO MUCH! It's badass :D Wicked guitars and stuff but what really kills me is the way Kiba sings the chorus. Can not get that one out of my head at the moment. And that wild riff that follows the chorus….so dancey, I can't keep still.
Shippai R ni jou
~*FUNKY alert*~ you have been warned…
Great song. They do this style so brilliantly…it always features somewhere on every album. This is a particularly fine example. YA HO! Very upbeat and lively, a good antidote to the dark urgency of the last song. Don't stop till you get enough!
9. 光の風
Hikari no Kaze
OH MY FUCKING GOD! So superb. This is my ideal Gargoyle song. Lovely, lovely, lovely. Tearing at my emo heart strings. When bands do feelings like this they can transform your whole experience of life. Sublime chorus! I can feel it deep inside my heart chakra. Yanno? Really, what's it like to write and perform a song like this? I'm so curious. Gargoyle never tell you who wrote what…it's always a group effort. I do appreciate their socialist ideals but whoever wrote this deserves a medal!!
10. 極楽フルスロットル
Gokuraku Full Throttle
More shifting of the tectonic plates. This one goes right off the Richter scale. It feels like a coda in a way, to everything they've ever done. Appropriate really, for their 20th anniversary album. Beautiful song! Love that chorus! Incredible band, incredible career. I wonder if the global pinheads will ever figure it out. Frankly I don't facking care if they never do. Gargoyle don't need them, and nor do I. They are already in Paradise. This must be Paradise to be able to make music like this.
11. Last Heaven
The obligatory "ballad". There's always one. And Kiba gets to wear his lovely heart on his sleeve. God! His singing is so special. Must be nice to know you are one of a kind. Past or future, never to be repeated. There is comfort in that.
And so on a heart felt note ends an album whose only flaw is that it is TOO FUCKING SHORT!
The Cro-Magnons - The Cro-Magnons
The Cro-Magnons self titled first album Special Edition!
A nice new fresh review hot off the press to celebrate the Summer Solstice (yeah and Christmas too…anything that gets the white picket side of the street festooning their houses in trippy lights has to be good).
Middle of summer here and the weather is…pleasant? Eh? That's something to really celebrate around here XD
And so I write because celebrating makes me garrulous and no-one in the immediate vicinity knows wtf I am talking about. Or rather they do because I've played it obsessively for months and driven them all hatstand.
Yes, I'm talking about the Cro-Magnons debut album.
Early in the year some time, a good friend of mine sent me a link to a Blue Hearts video she had uploaded to Youtube, a song called Jounetsu no Bara. It was an instant beginning to a very wonderful love affair with all things Hiroto Koumoto and Masatoshi Mashima, and The Cro-Magnons are the latest incarnation of a very long standing musical partnership.
Imagine my glee on discovering that The Cro-Magnons, had Katsuji from Gargoyle and Masaru from Sads (& lately Nil) and that they were releasing an album. How could such an inspired gathering of musicians be anything other than divinely brilliant? Absolutely impossible.
甲本ヒロト Hiroto Kohmoto (Vo.)
真島昌利 Masatoshi Majima (G.)
小林勝 Masaru Kobayashi (B.)
桐田勝治 Katsuji Kirita (Dr.)
I ordered the special CD/DVD edition and it made me very happy, as they included a five song live on the cd. The only complaint I can think of to make is about the booklet. Hiroto and Marcy should have been the ones getting their anatomy closely examined instead of that gorilla suit thing though no doubt they are VERY sick of all that kind of thing after more than 20 years of stardom. Well Marcy is anyway…Hiroto specializes in indecent exposure! :D And we get to see plenty of Hirotos' anatomy in the live. I have to warn you, they do pixelate the naughty bits, but nonetheless, clothes on or off Hiroto is one of the most spell binding live performers you will ever see.
1.Killer Bee
(by Marcy)
They take this Cro-Magnon stuff very seriously XD Opens with alot of funny prehistoric noises courtesy of the certifiably insane Hiroto and Marcy.
And then the song, which is …guh!…fucking hell this album is going to be hard work to review. It's a gorgeous, melodic, energetic punk song. Intricate and hard. Brilliantly constructed and divinely simple. And short.
2. Electric Guitar
(by Marcy)
Then, a song I didn't like as much at first but soon came to love. It's the wind up song. The pump em up to action song. In the context of the whole album, it's perfectly situated to ramp up the band and the audiences energy for what is to come. Marcy is such a brilliant guitarist. So incredible.
Renke Tsuki Yo Eien Ni
(by Hiroto)
Hiroto and Marcy create something together magically, that no one person could ever create alone, however gifted they were.
And the stunningly talented Katsuji and Masaru back them up so solidly. They are playing very much true to their own personalities too and adding their own special flavour to proceedings. It's all really exciting to hear and I hope this band will live on to produce many more albums. Though of course Katsuji must always stay loyal to Kiba, because Kiba is Kiba is Kiba…
(by Hiroto)
Oh God! Talk about making life difficult. How to explain the Greatness? XD He feels so great because he's riding on a tsunami of creative inspiration. It's empowering just to listen to it.
(by Marcy)
They both are. This song is case in point.
Marcy is the greatest guitarist/songwriter of them all.
Asakura Sansho
(by Marcy)
Too good. I fucking resign.
There is so much love in their music. So much healing. So much wit and compassion. I am floored. They are living proof that if you want the highest creative gifts you need to have a good honest heart and kind intentions. An unpurified vessel will crack under the pressure of divine inspiration.
Sougen no Kagayaki
(by Marcy)
Oh Marcy man, you mad old hippy you, these songs are unbelievable! I wish I could have written such a thing. I wish I could do what you do but at least you inspire me to what I do, and do it with love.
Masarus' bass in this one is particularly crucial.
Aruku Chibu
(by Hiroto)
Cock Walk! LOL! I knew this one had to be about penises. A translation of this would be…most appreciated :D
More apeman noises from the peanut gallery, and then straight into the best of the best, the most brilliant song of all. The best song I have heard in a long long time. XDD
And the LIVE! O.O;; Hiroto is insane, and a genius. What more could you want?
This song makes my soul dance joyfully. And I think that is what I love to hear most . A band that forces you to move, whether its internally or externally. They have to make all your atoms dance.
Kujira Nawa
(by Marcy)
A nice bouncy little ditty of a song, with some great "OI!"s from our friends in the bottom end. They are such a relentless fighting force of a band, and yet all rather gentle and shy individuals. It's a perfect paradox, like all the best things in life.
Yume no Rock'n'Roll Dream
(by Hiroto)
Speaking of gentle men, here is the "ballad" or soppy song if you hate that word like me. It's very pretty and sweet of course. These two have always done the slower, emotional stuff just as brilliantly as their more high energy masterpieces. I love the way Hiroto sings in this. It's so fresh and innocent.
(by Hiroto)
Awesome song! Brilliant guitar work! To die for really. Again very innocent and simple but not really if you know what I mean. I can only think of it in terms of art, in which the fewer lines you can capture something in, the greater master you are. To reduce everything to it's most perfect form, that is the game. Divine simplicity.
12.Tally Ho
(by Hiroto)
And speaking of perfect forms, here is the fantastic debut single.
This single was the moment we knew the Kuromaniyons had arrived. And it made me so happy! It's also much more than just an instantly addictive single. It's a perfect shining gem from a songwriter who has made my jaw drop more times than I can count this year as I worked my way through his endless back catalog.
13.Ma Ma Ma
(by Marcy)
I love this! I'm not going to even ask what its about. But the baby BVs are so cute :D
Dosei ni Yasashiku
(by Hiroto)
Love that drumming! And the bells. It's all so festive.
And such a great song, a triumphant, ecstatic finale.
Life time honours award for Hiroto and Marcy.
And they are all singing together again now :)
The band that sings together stays together.


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Agana race riot
The Agana race riot took place at Agana, Guam over the two nights of 24–25 December 1944 during the War in the Pacific.
It was one of the most serious incidents between African American military personnel and White enlisted men during the Second World War.[1]
In July 1944, the 3rd Marine Division took two weeks to recapture Guam from the Japanese Army in a campaign that cost 1,600 American lives.[citation needed]
After the battle, Guam was turned into a base for Allied operations. Five large airfields were built by Seabees, and B-29 bombers flew from the island to attack targets in the Western Pacific and on mainland Japan. Guam continued to station enlisted men from the 3rd Marine Division. But racial tensions began in late August when the all-black Marine 25th Depot Company started loading operations at the newly created naval supply depot.
A black marine stationed on the island compared the island to "a city deep down in the South" because of the bigotry he encountered. He said:
Where there are women and white and Negro men, you will find discrimination in large quantities. On Guam, discrimination against blacks involved attempted intimidation by whites who shouted racial slurs, threw rocks, and occasionally hurled smoke grenades from passing trucks into the cantonment area for black sailors of the Naval Supply Depot.[2]
Over the next three months, these racially-motivated incidents caused tensions to rise between the two groups until they erupted into a race riot on Christmas Eve, 1944.
First confrontation[edit]
On December 24, a group of nine African American marines from the 25th Depot Company had been given 24-hour holiday passes (for exemplary service) to go into Agana, Guam.
However, while in the city white marines opened fire on the black marines while they[who?] talked to Asian women, forcing them to run for their lives. Eight marines returned to their depot safely; however, a ninth man was missing.[3][unreliable source?]
In response, forty African American enlisted men loaded into two trucks and drove back to Agana to find the missing man. At the same time, an African American marine - who remained at the base - called the Military Police in Agana warning them that the marines were on their way. The MPs proceeded to erect barricades across all the roads leading into Agana.
When the trucks arrived at a roadblock a standoff began. Eventually tensions were calmed after a MP officer informed the marines that the missing man was found safe and returned to the 25th's camp. Satisfied, they turned their trucks around and returned to base.[3]
But around midnight on Christmas morning, a truck filled with armed marines drove into the segregated African American camp. They claimed that one of their marines had been hit with a piece of coral thrown by one of the African Americans. The standoff ended after the depot's white commanding officer told the all white marines to leave.[3]
Racial tensions continued on Christmas Day, when an African-American enlisted man walking back to camp from Agana was shot dead by two drunk white marines. Within hours, another black enlisted man was shot and killed by another drunken white enlisted man in Agana.[3]
After the reports of the shootings reached the African-American company, after midnight on the morning of 26 December, a jeep with white service members opened fire on the African-American depot. Camp guards returned fire injuring a white MP officer. The whites in the jeep took cover and fled toward Agana being chased by a group of armed blacks.[3]
They[who?] were stopped at a roadblock outside Agana by white MPs. They were arrested and charged with unlawful assembly, rioting, theft of government property and attempted murder.[3]
Marine Major General Henry Louis Larsen convened a court of inquiry to investigate the riot. Many black marines were court-martialed and received prison terms. No white marines were charged in connection with the events. The NAACP later successfully campaigned to have the black marines released.[4]
See also[edit]
- Port Chicago disaster—1944 court-martial of 50 African-American Navy men for refusing unsafe munitions loading work following a deadly explosion.
- Fort Lawton Riot—43 African-American defendants in the largest World War II Army courts-martial.
- ^ "The Right to Fight African American Marines in WWII". Retrieved 2010-04-28.[dead link]
- ^ Bernard C. Nalty. The Right to Fight: African-American Marines in World War II. United States Marine Corps Historical Center[dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f "WORLD WAR II AND AFRICAN AMERICANS (1941-1945)". Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ^ Agana, Guam, December 24, 1944: Riot[dead link]