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... that thanks to Mari Fukuhara we now have two pieces from December live 〜Moonshine Wonderland〜 were Issay made a guest appearance:

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An interesting fact is that the first one is new song - at least I've never met the title "Carnival" in setlists of previous ISSAY meets Dolly performances ( Read more... )

Promo photo for yesterday Mari Fukuhara's live ～Moonshine Wonderland～
courtesy of Nishi Azabu Shinsekai website.


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The question that every overseas fan seems to ponder is why with the title "Nine stories" the album has only 8 songs. Looking through Japanese fans reports on the last two one-mans the band held December 1 and 8, I came across an interesting remark that gives a clue to the riddle. A fan quoted Issay's MC at Tokyo live which roughly was as follows ( Read more... )

Finally there's a full list of songs that new album will include ( Read more... )

Cover of the upcoming mini-album "Nine stories" appeared finally:


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“A 'good band' had to have at least three saxophones in it (one of which had to ( Read more... )

Couple of hours ago band finally has announced new album "NINE STORIES". The album will be released December 25, 2013. It is already available for pre-order on Japanese Amazon (though not yet on CD Japan). Japanese fans will be able to purchase the album before the official release at lives in Shibuya REX, December 1, and Osaka 2nd Line, December 8

...that I should have posted here like two months or so ago, when first signs of their recording activity overslipped in Japanese fans' reports. This summer (at the live at Shibuya Rex, June 30) the band introduced two new songs: 'Over the radio' and 'Dark Sapphire'. According to what Japanese fans said in their reports back then, it seemed that in ( Read more... )

I found this entry via web archive and thought it may be useful, so I translated it into english.

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