PENELOG (Penelopes Watanabe's Music Diary)2015-12-13T23:33:31+09:00peneloxwatanabe(The Penelopes)による 音楽的日常Excite BlogNana Ishii and The Penelopes "Shangri-La Green"http://penelopes.exblog.jp/25176605/2015-12-13T23:29:00+09:002015-12-13T23:30:32+09:002015-12-13T23:29:11+09:00peneloxThe Penelopes関連
最新アルバムからのふたつめの動画として、Nana Ishii and The Penelopes "Shangri-La Green"を公開いたしました。1分半ほどですが、ぜひ御覧ください。
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01 The Penelopes - Here Comes the Light (ヒア・カムズ・ザ・ライト) (0:22 -)
02 Nana Ishii and The Penelopes - Shangri-La Green (シャングリラ・グリーン) (0:33 -)
03 Splendidville - Eye Of A Needle (アイ・オブ・ア・ニードル) (0:43 - )
04 Marilyn Lo and The Penelopes - Fundamental Thing (ファンダメンタル・シング) (0:58 - )
05 The Penelopes - All That Glitters (オール・ザット・グリッターズ) (1:11 - )
06 The Penelopes - Hello New World (ハロー・ニュー・ワールド) (1:24 - )
07 Splendidville - Back In Time (バック・イン・タイム) (1:38 - )
08 The Penelopes - Carry On (キャリー・オン) (1:55 - )
The Penelopes new mini album "Spellbound" is coming out onlline only on Nov. 20th. The eight song mini album features three female lead vocalists on four tracks.]]>The Penelopes ニューアルバムのお知らせhttp://penelopes.exblog.jp/24891749/2015-09-12T15:50:42+09:002015-09-12T15:50:40+09:002015-09-12T15:50:40+09:00peneloxThe Penelopes関連
大変ごぶさたしております。
Currently I'm recording a lot of songs for two projects: one is the collaborations with some female artists and the other is The Penelopes new album. The former one will be released next year and The Penelopes album in 2015 or so. As for concerts, I have no plans at now, but maybe in 2015.
I have some mini discs containing the live versions of our songs, maybe somewhere in the closet. I want to release them in the future.
Well about the major pop scene, there're many teeny pop groups like AKB48 and so called J Rock stuff (typical Japanese pop/rock), and also in the indie pop scene there seem to be a lot of young artists and quite a few fans are with them in the circle, and many of them don't inspire me sadly... Where is conscientious pop music? Such a situation seems to have stayed the same for the past decade. As for The Penelopes, we're not young, and not in a major label, nor in certain marketable category, just trying to invent our own hearty, conscientious pop music , which means not many but faithful music lovers come to listen to us without fear. We may be regarded as the strange fossil from the old school guitar pop ruins somehow still breathing. Of course I don't want that 'old school' tag, but I can't help it.
The Penelopesに関して言えば、私たちは若くはないし、メジャーレーベルにも所属していない。ある種のマーケティングしやすいカテゴリーの中にいる訳でもなく、ひたすら自分達ならではの、心ある、良心的なポップミュージックを作り出そうとして来たのですが、それでどうなったかというと、多くはないが誠実な音楽愛好家の人たちが恐れる事なく私たちの音楽に耳を傾けに来てくれる、ということです。私たちは旧世代ギターポップの廃墟から出土した、どういう訳かまだ息をしている奇妙な化石みたいにみなされているのかも知れません。もちんそんな「旧世代」タグは要らないのですが、どうしようもないのです。
Do the recent ecological problems in Japan (Fukushima) have an influence on the songs ?
- 最近の日本の、福島の環境の問題は音楽に影響を与えていますか?
In my personal opinion, the ecological situation is getting worse here. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant is still emitting the massive radioactive substances and contaminating our land and of course the earth. But the government and the bureaucrats here are also still trying to deceive the nation by announcing "nuke energy is cheap and safe" or "the influence of the exposure to the radioactive substances from Fukushima is minimum, less than the Chernobyl accident". Sadly the nonsense is working even at now. The big problem seems to be so many people who lack in, or even try to avoid some independent thinking. Our last single Honeymoon Is Over was about a man who knew the truth about nuke plants and tried and failed to tell it to other people. Some people are working hard to change the situation, but it's really difficult to do so in a country under such powerful bureaucratic and business world's control.
The Penelopesの去年のシングル"Honeymoon Is Over"は、原子力発電所の真実を知って他の人たちに伝えようとするが失敗する人についての歌でした。この状況を変えようと頑張っている人たちもいますが、これほど強い官僚や財界のコントロールの下にある国でそれをやるのは大変困難なことです。
]]>音楽ウェブジンCheer Up! 新連載http://penelopes.exblog.jp/21002385/2013-09-12T09:57:40+09:002013-09-12T09:57:43+09:002013-09-12T09:57:43+09:00peneloxThe Penelopes関連
音楽ウェブマガジンのCheer Up!さんにて連載させていただくことになりました。
「"Twee Pop A Lula" (トゥイーポップ・ア・ルーラ) - 徒然と綴れ」というタイトルのエッセーです。一回目の今回は、"Sweet Amazer"リリースのことなどについてです。