■Hitorizaki (1979) Their debut single. 'Hitorizaki' means 'To bloom alone'. Aska sings about the sorrow of a woman who has a lover to leave from a woman's point of view. In early days,there were so many songs which Aska sang from a woman's…

Godiego is a Japanese rock band which flourished from the late in 1970s to the middle in 1980s with its excellent meodies, techniques, and pop sense which are far from Japanese. Takekawa Yukihide (vocal, music composer) aimed to be a singe…

I'm a big U2 fan. As you know, U2 made a big hit of 'The Joshua Tree' in 1987 all around the world and espesially The Edge's guitar work influenced music scene including Japan so much. In the west, It was in the 21 the century that its inf…

Fuji Rock Histrory At first I'd like to ask about Fuji Rock of the first year in 1997. What were you doing then? It was the year I started Snoozer. The first issue of Snoozer was published in May of that year. But I couldn't go to Fuji Roc…

The mid-1990s was the era when Japanese pop music was so mellow. The business category called "CD shop" was generalized nation-wide, enormous past masterpiece catalogs which had been difficult to get as analog records were reprinted togeth…