TOKYO INCIDENTS - SCARLET ALIBI Reaction / SHIINA RINGO (Tokyo Jihen, Experimental Rock/Jazz) 🔥🔥🔥

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@FauxieDaoJia 11 ай бұрын

What a composer she is, first and foremost, across so many genres (and sub-genres, as within jazz and Latin American music). It's mad really how all-round competent this woman is musically - a multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, arranger, singer, bandleader, writing for others, for TV, film, and stage, plus a unique, compelling lyricist, and is even quite artistic and involved with visuals. I struggle to come up with another female artist with her skill set who has legitimately been a teen icon type pop star. I think she's in her very own lane.

@realdocloco 11 ай бұрын

About the multi-instrumentalist part: I recently watched Tokyo Jihen last concert in 2012. At one moment, the pianist comes frontstage to sing, and Shiina sit at the piano and plays the keyboard part of the song. Then it's the turn of the drummer to come singing ... and she replace him behind the drumset. Then she come back frontstage and plays her guitar. Totally naturally.

@realdocloco 11 ай бұрын

Tokyo Jihen - all world-class musicians gathered around Shiina Ringo (the first line-up was actually her touring band when she was solo), playing everything they want from jazz to punky indie rock and everything in between. You have to experience them live, it's a stunning band! I recommand this video live in their most rocking style kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3WZmmxmlNyLg6M Very good analysis of Shiina Ringo the character ... but that's only her onstage persona - in private she's quite the opposite, a very funny and warm individual, loving to hang around with musicians (there's a lot of backstage documentaries). A bit crazy for sure and a strong minded-artist too. Btw the "organ solo" was actually a distorded bass, played by the amazing Seiji Kameda, a fantastic musician who's also a great producer and a radio host.

@ねるさん-c1k 11 ай бұрын

I also highly recommend 「獣ゆく細道」"Beast Going Hosomichi" sung by Ringo Shiina and Hiroji Miyamoto. It is quite unique jazz sung by male and female vocalists crossing paths.

@PaulEngineer 11 ай бұрын

Legends.

@guitarandy2406 11 ай бұрын

In terms of the long hiatus, they stopped at the height of their popularity and for gigging purposes it was literally 8 years from 29th Feb 2012 to 29th Feb 2020. Although the band was inactive and technically broken up for that time, several members still worked and/or toured with Shiina whilst she continued the second stage of her solo career. In the Queen of Kabukicho performance you reacted to previously this guitarist and keys player were part of her backing band. This video had some spy/noire elements to tie in with the Detective Conan movie it was part of the soundtrack for, but a lot of the visuals were actually self-referencing previous Shiina Ringo/Tokyo Jihen videos as the start of the version 2.0 reformation of Jihen's Phase 2 lineup (the '06 onwards version of the band). The song name having a different title when directly translated is because Shiina usually has official alternative English song names for anything originally Japanese (either to avoid confusion in translation or just satisfy her artistic muse, she's also at times had deliberate symmetry with the song titles on albums). Both the arrangement of Kabukicho you saw and this lean more into the jazz/fusion end of things but that's only one facet of Sheena & Jihen's output, at times they've gone more electronic, pop, aggressive punk energy or art-rock. One of the secrets to Shiina's artistic longevity (25 yrs in the industry and counting) is she's a bit of a musical chameleon and the Jihen can play just about any style asked of them. I can see where you'd get the comparison with Jay Kay and Jamiroquai, moreso the earlier years pre-98 before Stuart Zender (original bassist) quit. Back then they were more of an actual band with Jay Kay as the figurehead/frontman of a stable lineup of musicians, rather than the glorified solo project they've since become. A lot of that early stuff was heavily influence by 70s jazz fusion bands like Herbie Hancock's Headhunters & Weather Report.

@SGlwg 11 ай бұрын

Really enjoy your reaction and comment to her works and are so on points. She always seems to be so aloof and motionless on the stage but at the same time so many things going on for the music (sometimes even felt violent), which creates a unique charm for her performances.

@JackfruitMistletoe 11 ай бұрын

Great reaction - absolutely my favourite artist and band - so many great songs and performances. In my view just peerless.

@ralphboyer2538 11 ай бұрын

While this is not the type of music that I generally listen to, there's no denying the talent in all of them. I agree with what you said about Shiina Ringo. She makes me think of the music from the 30s and 40s also. She has an undercurrent of being very sexy, but also of being very unattainable. Kind of a "look all you want" but "never, ever touch" attitude. The singers from the 30s and 40s also had that sort of attitude. But at the same time, she's very classy (something a lot of modern singers are lacking, in my opinion). You can't help but want to know more about her. I hadn't heard of her before seeing her on your channel, but I would like to see more from her.

@55happy555 8 ай бұрын

Most of her lyrics are very complicated like old-time poems. It's even hard for me, a native Japanese to understand. I like how she gives us some space for our imaginations.

@megatherium6160 5 ай бұрын

The only member in common with the previous clip is the guitar player 浮雲Ukigumo/Floating Cloud (長岡亮介Ryosuke Nagaoka). The blue-nosed keyboard player was H ZEET M (樋泉昌之Masayuki Hiizumi), and the pianist wearing the white trapper in this clip is 伊澤一葉Itiyou Izawa. I highly recommend the alternative rock band the HIATUS, to which Izawa belongs. And also I recommend you the post rock band toe too,the same drummer 柏倉隆史Takashi Kashikura belongs.