Lo-Fi Blog

2010.November.19 (Friday)  "Groove Alchemist"


When we were on tour in Nagoya we did a show with SPEAKER SGT.
On the 19th they'll be organizing a jazzy music event in Kichijoji.
Lo-Fi will be playing at 20:30-21:00!




Where: MANDALA (KICHIJOJI) http://www.mandala.gr.jp/man1.html
〒180-0003 Minamimachi 1-5-2 Kichijoji, Musashino-shi, Tokyo
TEL：0422-48-5003


2 minute walk from Kichijoji station

Entrance: ¥2000 + 1drink order, Door ¥2200 +1 drink order

Time Table:1.Sifaka 19:00-19:30　http://www.myspace.com/sifakafis
2.SNATCH 19:45-20:15　http://www.myspace.com/snatchinfo
3.Lo-Fi 20:30-21:00
4.Speaker Sgt. 21:15-21:45  http://www.myspace.com/speakersgt
DJ Ryohei  http://www.myspace.com/djryoheiart


for questions and reservations:  news@lofi-net.com



2010.11.20(Sat)  "Forest Jam Grande 2010"

The last outdoor music festival in Japan this year... Forest Jam
It's a two day event from the 20th to the 21st at the Nakadai Art Village!


Where:  NAKADAI ART VILLAGE (Chiba prefecture)

Entrance: 5,500yen (Door 7,000yen)

Online ticket sales: e++ http://eplus.jp/sys/T1U14P0010163P0108P002047337P0050001P006001P0030001


For English assistance in purchases please contact news@lofi-net.com

Artists:
The Sunpaulo
Spina B-ill
Kingdom☆Afrocks
cro-magnon
Hypesessions
Majestic Circus
Hale Bale
Dachambo
UCOCA
DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite.jp
Lo-Fi


Official HP: http://grande.forestjam.net/

Wow... the Halloween party was really great.
It's always great performing with all these different artists.

It was also my first time seeing SATO TAIJI do his solo thing.
Really cool rock'n roll stuff.

Lo-Fi will be doing our next show in KICHIJOJI.

1.Sifaka 19:00-19:30　ttp://www.myspace.com/sifakafis
2.SNATCH 19:45-20:15　http://www.myspace.com/snatchinfo
3.Lo-Fi 20:30-21:00　http://www.lofi-net.com/
4.Speaker Sgt. 21:15-21:45 http://www.myspace.com/speakersgt
DJ Ryohei
http://www.myspace.com/djryoheiart

Open18時半Start19時
料金 前売り2000円、当日2200円ドリンク別
http://www.mandala.gr.jp/man1.html


詳細： http://events.myspace.com/Event/8140590/Speaker-Sgt-Presnts-groove-alchemist#ixzz1413eOpK9




We met the band SPEAKER SGT. a while back in Nagoya when we were out there on tour.
It's great to have them invite us this time to their show.
We've got some great bands lined up so look forward to the show

The Halloween party/ RENO ANNIVERSARY party at the end of this month is an event you don't wanna miss! Lo-Fi will be doing a full show (with new songs!) and we've even got some of the members from the TSUNAGU EVENT and coliberation event's Lo-Fi has hosted in the past!

This time we weren't able to get deeply involved in the planning of the event but the musical and paint content will be awesome so don't miss out!!!

RENO EVENT LINK

Lo-Fi on iflyer:
http://iflyer.tv/5/

Lo-Fi is a doing well as a band since we finally settled with the three members we are now. We've released our album at the end of last year, and hopefully if things move on as scheduled we'll be releasing our next album around the same time this year too.

Then it will mean that we really have something available for our fans when we finally reach them live where-ever they are. I especially miss being in the US to perform. I haven't been there before with my band, and I think it'd be a great environment to play our sound.

Japan has an interesting musical environment, but it seems as though the neo-soul kind of sound hasn't really hit main-stream here yet, and it seems like a very underground movement compared to other genres like punk-rock and ofcourse the Japanese traditional J-POP / Kayo-kyoku sound.

I love the old Japanese music, that was J-POP once, but now categorized as Kayo-kyoku. The sound is a blend of traditional Japanese music melody mixed with influences from western music. Maybe the trend shifts are moving too fast for the public to follow, but just like anywhere else in the world, CD sales are plummeting and digital sales are the main source of income for many artists.

http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/quantity/index.html

Just check out the shift toward the end of the chart (at the bottom) where CD sales are down but there is trend for more movement on video media.

Here's some information they also researched about the consumer trends for music.
http://www.riaj.or.jp/report/mediauser/pdf/softuser2009.pdf

It's easy to tell that the television media is very dominant in controlling what people buy.
http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/cd_all/cd_all_q.html

It's no surprise that international artists have very limited sales in Japan. Then again I don't this is the whole picture, because the Japan Record association only has access to those who have registered and filed their reports into their database.

So even though we are in rough waters doing music here in Japan as an indie artist, we are getting really good feedback from our audience, and they are helping to keep our band going. We are incredibly grateful for the love and support of our music. We sell the most records at our shows, even though our CDs are physically available all over, I guess when they see a live performance it's more convincing for them that they will get what they paid for when they buy the CD.

Right now we were successful in getting about 1000 CDs sold and that got us enough support to help start making our second full album. We've gotten almost all the songs written and now we're starting the recording process all over again.

The new album should have even more live sound and jamming, can't wait to get it all together for people waiting on our new music.

Here's a new video clip from a concert that was performed in Nagoya. At the Apollo Theater there.
It was strange that a venue would use such a famous name with no regard to it's origin!
Anyway, they have a great sound system and the crowd was really great there.

I can't express how much it meant to us for so many people showing to see our show in Tokyo.

This was actually our first CD release party and to be honest it was nerve racking due to so much trouble that happened on the day and days leading up to the event. BUT with everyone's support the party turned out great. It was heartwarming and inspirational and I was grateful to have so many fans out there along with my favorite artists that came to participate in our event.

I really think that we had so many challenges that would have made the event impossible if it were not for everyone there who pushed us along!

Also for those of you who were truly worried and come up to us to give us advice on the accident,

Yosh got the hospital after the show and had a full scan and there are no complications other than

some neck pain (he got a brace for that). 

I'd like to introduce once again the artists that helped make the event happen!

Art/Paint:

  Ayumi http://www.a-live-ayumi.com/ 

  Yaberay http://ameblo.jp/ray-yabe/