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New Town (Live at Nagoya DIAMOND HALL, 2022)

ALBATROSS

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Early Saturday morning. The song depicts a busy businessman's daily life in his favourite café, where he is suddenly thinking about his own life. On a morning with a pleasant, cool September breeze, he thinks about the conflicts he can't swallow in his busy life, unfinished thoughts and dreams he left behind, and accepts his life with a brief moment of happiness. The song expresses the state of mind of a person trying to make an answer before heading from the present, which is "between reality (weekdays) and ideals (weekends)", to the fork in the road called the 'three-way junction' at the end of the road that stretches in front of the café, with the slow and steady progression from the A and B melodies towards the chorus. The chilly and fragile A-melody is depicted by strings, the horn section (tenor sax, alto sax and trombone) sings nimbly towards the chorus, and the chorus is as clear as a beautiful morning, with a light groove and heavy chorus work. The lyrics and melody express how the dazzling roads and sparse people created by the previous day's rain, and the city beginning to breathe, look like a 'New Town' that encourages people to leave for a place they have never seen before. Not only businessmen, but also students, housewives, freelancers and even the elderly. The song was produced in the hope that listening to it in the morning while drinking coffee and thinking about one's own juncture will help one to 'feel positive'.

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  • ALBATROSS

    This five-member group traces its lineage back to city pop, AOR, and urban soul, yet crosses genres without borders, weaving anthemic music of the REIWA Japanese era. The one-of-a-kind sound that intertwines the message spelled out by frontman Hiroshi Kaifu with the soul and R&B-derived swells cultivated as a live band inspires listeners, while at the same time leaning in and talking to them. The band was formed in 1998 in Nagoya by high school classmates Kaifu (Vo), Amano (Gt), and Kobayashi (Ba). Later, Ohno (Dr.) and Shimazaki (Key) joined to form the current lineup. At that time, the band performed more than 100 live shows a year in various parts of Japan. However, in the late 2000s, Shimazaki, Amano, and Ohno left the group. The band changed members and resumed their activities, but went on hiatus after their last live performance in 2009. After that, they were inactive for more than 10 years, March 20, 2022. On March 20, 2022, they resumed their activities with a two-man live concert with G-FREAK FACTORY, which was held after the closing of their home ground, Apollo Base in Nagoya, at that time. They announced the resumption of their activities. In July of the same year, they released their first EP "ECHOED" in 12 years. In September, the band held a successful "The World Is Echoed" live concert. The year is 2023. After resuming their activities, they announced a new project, "9 Chants," in which nine newly created songs will be released consecutively over a period of nine months. Atsushi Shimazaki left the band on June 20, 2023, and Yuki Hanabusa joined as a new support keyboardist for "9 Chants". Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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