http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/08/20/alt-japan-the-pizzicato-five/ A New England Expat in Japan. Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:52:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/08/20/alt-japan-the-pizzicato-five/#comment-1508 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:20:05 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=783#comment-1508 [...] ’60s, a scene that mostly didn’t exist until being romanticized and emulated by the Shibuya-kei kids in the [...]

]]> http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/08/20/alt-japan-the-pizzicato-five/#comment-1223 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:01:32 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=783#comment-1223 [...] particularly in the Japanese embrace of Bossa Nova music, which was also a force behind the Shibuya-Kei sound of Japan in the swingin’ 1990s, just around the time Brazilians were sought out to come back to [...]

]]> http://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/08/20/alt-japan-the-pizzicato-five/#comment-612 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:59:41 +0000 http://thisjapaneselife.org/?p=783#comment-612 I have their album, ‘Happy End of the World’. More twee than Belle and Sebastian, but I like some of the songs, including ‘It’s a Beautiful Day’, above. My favourite is ‘The World is Spinning at 45Rpm’, and I’d give you a Youtube link, but they only had some remix that sounds nothing like the original.

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