Music from Japan – Electric Eel Shock

” Rock n Roll can rescue the world !” what a great message from these three guys from Japan, Osaka founded 1997.  Inspired by british and american  hard rock bands like Black Sabbath , Judas Priest , Twisted Sisters and Van Halen they play a straight and good garage guitar hard and heavy wonderful awesome ( is there another superlative i forgot ??9 rock , here is their song  with the same name ……..

ROCK N ROLL CAN RESCUE THE WORLD

double peace,  my friends ^^

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Music from Japan – One Ok Rock

One Ok Rock (stylized as ONE OK ROCK) is a Japanese rock band formed in 2005, composed of Taka, Toru, Ryota, and Tomoya. Originally a five piece band, guitarist Alex left the group in 2009 after being arrested for groping.(wiki )

Another suggestion from this unknown guy from Kobe /Japan , who i met in the bus . Here with their song “Liar “

Music from Japan – Mr. Children

Mr. Children (ミスターチルドレン Misutā Chirudoren?), commonly called “Misuchiru” (ミスチル?), is a Japanese rock band formed in 1988 by Kazutoshi Sakurai, Kenichi Tahara, Keisuke Nakagawa, and Hideya Suzuki. As a group, they are one of the most successful Japanese rock artists, having sold over 50 million records and creating the “Misuchiru Phenomenon” (ミスチル現象?) in the mid 1990s in Japan. They held the record for the highest first week sales of a single in Japan for 15 years, with 1.2 million copies of their 10th single “Namonaki Uta” (名もなき詩?), have 30 consecutive number 1 singles, replaced Glay as the all-male band (with 3 or more members) to have the most number 1 albums on the Oricon charts, and won the Japan Record Award in 1994 for “Innocent World” and in 2004 for “Sign”. As of 2012, Mr. Children has published fourteen original studio albumsand 34 physical singles, along with five compilations, a live album, and fifteen home video releases. The band’s music is mainly composed and written by lead singer Sakurai, with the exception of the Suzuki-penned songs “Asia” and “#2601″ from the albums Atomic Heart and Discovery, and occasional collaborative song writing with producer Takeshi Kobayashi.

Last Sunday a met a japanese guy in the bus, we both went home from a Rock festival ; i started a conversation asking him for famous rock-pop bands froim Japan and he wrote 4 of them on a sheet of paper , Mr. Children was one of them , here with one of their songs “Namonaki Uta “

Music from Japan – Kahimi Karie

Kahimi Karie is a japanese musician, best known for her Shibuya-kei music. She sings, or even whispers in english, french and japanese. Here’s her nice song “Bonjour Line”: