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Uwanosora – Blue to Odotte (English Lyrics)

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ブルーと踊って
Dance With Blue

Blue is what we called her
Her nickname was Blue
That’s all we knew

With her sweet & cute looks
Most of the guys were in love
Lost in her innocent eyes

Suddenly, Blue said to me
“Let’s go for a drive!”
And so we drove to the beach
Under the breaking moon

Reaching into my pocket
Blue and I made a bet
We would flip a coin
Heads — we see how the dream ends
Tails — we say goodbye

I’m sure Blue already knew
Though she acted so casual and carefree
She always kept her sadness hidden

Not telling a soul
Where she was headed
Blue was gone
Even though the coin
Had come up heads

Caught by the wind
We ran free, naked
In the shallow waters
On that airport beach
I was dancing with Blue
That summer, without a doubt
We were dancing

Waves drawing near
I held her close
As the night
Softly turned to day

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Uwanosora ’67 “Portrait in Rock’n’Roll 2” Interview (2022)

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This is a lengthy interview with Uwanosora ’67 about their album Portrait in Rock’n’Roll 2.

Very enlightening and in-depth, this discussion is a real treasure for fans of the band. I was going to include a disclaimer warning you against reading it all in one go (the word count is over 10,000!), but hey, there are worse ways to go than overdosing on Uwanosora.

Interview & photography: Sugano Keisuke (Japanese text, additional photography from Uwanosora’s social media)
English translation: Henkka
Uwanosora: Linktree

Note: You can buy Portrait in Rock’n’Roll 2 on CDJapan.

What follows is an interview conducted on 2 August 2022 with Iemoto Megumi and Kadoya Hirohide of Uwanosora ’67, commemorating the release of their album, Portrait in Rock’n’Roll 2. It is the first release by Uwanosora ’67 since 2015’s Portrait in Rock’n’Roll.

In their work, Uwanosora/Uwanosora ’67 have tirelessly continued to pursue their musical desires. The first half of the interview is a conversation with Kadoya, and the second half with both Kadoya and Iemoto. We would be glad if this interview could help you understand even in some small way what this new album is all about, and what these two are like as people.

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Kaede, Lamp & Uwanosora “Stardust in Blue” Interview (2020)

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The following is an interview with Kaede, Lamp’s Someya Taiyo, and Uwanosora’s Kadoya Hirohide about Kaede’s 2020 mini-album Stardust in Blue (otherwise known as Aki no Wakusei, Heart wa Night Blue). A neat little interview about a neat little album. Enjoy!

Text & interview: Namba Kazumi (Japanese text)
English translation: Henkka
Kaede: Website, Twitter, Instagram
Lamp: Linktree
Uwanosora: Linktree

Note: You can buy Stardust in Blue on CDJapan.

Nine months after the release of Ima no Watashi wa Kawaritsuzukete Ano Koro no Watashi de Irareteru, the first solo album of Negicco’s Kaede, she is releasing a new mini-album, Stardust in Blue, on September 8th.

A first-time experiment, this conceptual album welcomes Lamp’s Someya Taiyo and Uwanosora’s Kadoya Hirohide as its producers, along with a lavish cast of musicians including Nagai Yusuke (Lamp), Sakakibara Kaori (Lamp), Iemoto Megumi (Uwanosora), and Tanaka Jacob (Yanushi).

We conducted a remote interview with Kaede, Someya, and Kadoya to ask them about the album.

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Uwanosora “Kadoya Hirohide & Someya Taiyo in Conversation” (2019)

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This is a great heart-to-heart discussion between Uwanosora’s Kadoya Hirohide and Lamp’s Someya Taiyo. It was originally included in Uwanosora’s “7 Years Live” pamphlet from 2019, only a couple of months after the release of their third album, Yogiri.

Their conversation discusses not only the album, but also the pair’s struggles with songwriting, Someya’s qualms with some of Uwanosora’s music, Kadoya’s concerns about “selling out,” and what the two would do in the face of Planet Earth’s imminent destruction.

Text: Yoshikawa Kohei
English translation: Henkka
Uwanosora: Linktree
Lamp: Linktree

Note: You can buy Yogiri on CDJapan.


Uwanosora

Someya Taiyo: What’s your favorite Uwanosora song?

Kadoya Hirohide: Hmm…

Someya: For me, it’s “Poolside ni te.”

Kadoya: Maybe “Namida no Forkball.” (laughs)

Someya: Oh… Okay… (laughs) The last bit in that song—in terms of my musical sensibilities, there’s just no place for jokey bits like that in my songs. The fact that you enjoy that kind of thing, it sort of makes you a bit old-fashioned.

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Uwanosora “Yogiri” Interview (2019)

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To commemorate Uwanosora’s awesome third album, Yogiri, finally being made available on Spotify last month, here is an interview about it. You owe it to yourself to give it a listen. Enjoy!

Interview & text: Uchi Takahide of WebVANDA (Japanese text: part one & part two)
English translation: Henkka
Uwanosora on the web: Website, Instagram, Kadoya Hirohide Twitter, Iemoto Megumi Twitter

Note: You can buy Yogiri from CDJapan.

With the release of their second album Hidamari in 2017 (and a subsequent analog pressing the following year) still fresh in our minds, Uwanosora are releasing their eagerly anticipated third album Yogiri on June 26th.

This being their second release after becoming a duo in August 2017, Kadoya Hirohide (guitar, songwriting, production) and Iemoto Megumi (vocals) have, since the city pop beginnings of their 2014 debut, incorporated elements of various other genres into their music as they continue to develop their sound. One might even say they have become “music for the discerning music fan.”

In this interview, we asked the two members about the creation process of this album.

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