TORAUMA: “Music is the strength to live”
Nine years after writing “pink elephant,” TORAUMA looks back on loneliness, Aomori, Okinawa, “Tsubaki” and the songs that sometimes need years to find their listeners.
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Night Hawks Interview: Burnout, Freedom and Rock
Shuichi Aoki and Chie Iwashita revisit Night Hawks’ difficult history, their unexpected return, the meaning of rock and the forty-year journey behind “Anmoku no Hibi.”
Re:O: “We Make Music That Sounds Better Louder”
With “Ronin,” Re:O became a four-piece built on incompatible influences, impossible drum parts and a shared desire to push Rio Suyama’s songs somewhere heavier.
Flehmann: Every Song Begins with a Sound
From a used synthesizer to “Save my love,” Flehmann explains how he returned to music, builds from sound and learned to write for voices.
OTO MAYUMI: Japanese rock from Rome
In early 2024, OTO MAYUMI spoke to J-POP streaming about Good and Bad Shades, her love of 1990s J-rock and the producer who helped her find the right sound.