Kenichi Fumoto And Some Press

Onward and Upward!

I find myself not getting enough sleep lately, so I'll keep this short, considering the time. I gotsta get my ZZzz's on.

Ok, so we watched some footage today. The D.V.D. show looks awesome, can't wait to show ya'll a sample. Some more footage is going to be posted soon, so I'll put those up when they're ready. The new website looms ever closer. We're basically ready to launch, but we want to put up the best of the best content so the launch is even more amazingly awesome.

Tonight we saw Kenichi Fumoto play a set at Marble in Shinjuku. This place is 10 feet away from Motion, where we saw Moja and Sajjanu, and 10 feet away from Marz, where we will be heading later in the trip. There's Live Houses everywhere. We met another documentary film-maker who is making his film just on Live Houses...maybe we should interview him as a specialists on that matter.


Anyway, Kenichi was yet another blend of music. He played an acoustic guitar, and had a back-up female vocalist, and a cellist playing alongside him. His songs seemed to emphasize the lyrics, although I couldn't understand them. He sort of reminded me of Sufjan Stevens, melodramatic and emotional. It was definitely a change of pace from some of the other music we've heard.


Afterwards we interviewed him in the smallest space yet. The room was the size of a bathroom stall, and there were 5 of us in it. Eric ran the mic, I was behind the camera, Lewis was asking questions next to me, the translator sat next to Lewis, and the Kenichi sat about 2 or 3 feet from the camera...that's an extreme close-up for yah. Sorry, no photos.


Kenichi talked about his disdain for mainstream music, and how he believes the best musicians are the ones no one knows about..."The best musicians don't have any friends," he said. Whoa.

Oh yeah, we've been getting some Japanese Press too. Apparently a few websites have photos or shoutouts for us up. One of em even has a photo of me filming Tranko. That was yesterday I think...check out this link: http://white.ap.teacup.com/cosmic/ and scroll about 1/3rd the way down...we're in the post from 9/1...I'm in the green shirt.


Anyway, enough self-indulgence, off to bed.


Ian