Passepied/パスピエ celebrate five years with Mayday/メーデー

Japanese band パスピエ (Passepeid) celebrate five years since the debut with a brand new single titled Mayday (メーデー):


We found them a couple of years ago thanks to our hunt for something melodic but ... different. Here's one of the songs from the band's debut five years ago. The song is titled 電波ジャック (Denpa Jakku):


Curious? Wikipedia's very basic page about Passepied/パスピエ:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passepied_(band)

An old article from 2011:
http://www.syncmusic.jp/wordpress/?p=12523

贅沢ないいわけ: File only release from パスピエ/Passepied

Cover art for the song/file

パスピエ/Passepied, today released a brand new song titled 贅沢ないいわけ (Zeitakuna īwake) that means Lyxury excuse (according to Google Translate) or I mean a luxury (says Bing Translator).

We mention this not only because we like the band, but because it is also an alternative release compared to the special physical extra goodies packaging that seem to be very prevalent in the Japanese music business.

This time around the song comes as a plain sound file. No physical CD. Although a little extra is that one onlite site - mora.jp - offers a high resolution 88.2kHz/24bit FLAC version for 540 Yen (4.65 US$/3.7 €). That is twice the price of the regular file.

Passepied (パスピエ) in English!

October 22 will see the release of Japanese band and Radio Dupree favourite Passepied (パスピエ) in English.

Formed back in 2009 at the Tokyo university and with a couple of successful albums in Japan it is seems like it is time for the band to expand and release an EP of five tracks in English.

1 MATATABISTEP (English ver.)
2 Tow-Ryang-Say (English ver.)
3 Tokyo City Underground (English ver.)
4 The Meditation( English ver.)
5 MATATABISTEP (English ver.)- Seiho Remix

Here's the video for Tokyo City Underground:

Singer's face finally clearly seen in new video!

Japanese band パスピエ/Passepied today release its new album. Titled 幕の内ISM/MAKUNOUCHI-ISM it is a current example of how Japanese popular music try to market through fancy packaging and limited extras.

But let's first of all explain the title of this blog post. From the start Passepied has been careful about showing the band members faces in pictures and videos. Here's a current promo pic:

But two minutes into the current video for トーキョーシティ・アンダーグラウンド/Tokyo City Underground singer Natsuki Ogota's face  is suddenly visible for three seconds or so. See for yourself:


Back to the packaging.

The album comes in a limited version with a DVD including six live tracks filmed during the 2013 tour.
The album art itself folds out into a three dimensional diorama, and early buyers of the album get a diorama to assemble that comes in four slightly different versions depending on what store you buy it from.

If we ever get our hands on the limited single Kira Kira Killer from Kyary Pamyu Pamyu we'll do another fancy Japanese packaging post.

パスピエ 「フィーバー」 Passepied - "Fever"