Fuuunji - Over the distance

On a rainy evening in Miyazaki I heard the wondeful song Over the distance from the band Fuuunji. They performed it in a passage where we hided ourselves from the rain. They sold a CD with the song and the song became my audio memory of our wonderful days in Japan. The song can be heard now in Radio Petenyi.

The band has got myspace page, a preview of the song can be heard also there:

http://www.myspace.com/fuuunji

From my friend Shigetoshi Yazaki I got this explanation for the name of the band that I have misspelled firstly to be fununji, not believing that fuuunji can be right ...

Shige says:

"Fuu means winds
Un means clouds
Ji means earth.

But the original meaning of Fuu-un-ji [風雲児] is "a hero [an adventurer] of the troubled times"

Fuu-un means "the state of affairs; the situation" (the other meaning is "winds and clouds").
Sometimes we use Fuu-un such as "make a name by taking advantage of [capitalizing on] social unrest."

They don't use Fuu-un-ji [風雲児], but invent new combination and use Fuu-un-ji [風雲地] (they use another "ji"). The original ji [児] means "guy", and this ji [地] means "earth, ground".

In the web page, they explain the reanson why they use Fuu-un-ji [風雲地]:

1) the (reckless) challenging spilit such that they become a guy who can blow new winds to the music scene of all over japan, not only Miyazaki.

2) one guy (Morimoto) makes a wind-like sound, and the other guy (Ikkyuu) make a thunder-(cloudy)-like sound. they make a wish to become a musician.

The usage of the in japanese, for example,
You should be more realistic in planning your future.
In this case, we use the phrase:
to have your feet on the ground; or be down to earth
ji [地] means these ground and earth

Then they mixed and invented a double meaning in Fuu-un-ji
(winds-clouds-guy and -earth)."

Well, it is nice lecture on Japanese language ...

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Weezer - Red Album, メリクリ (日本語ヴァージョン)

There was not too much music during my 10-days visit of Japan, but otherwise this little musical contribution I got there was one of the best of this year. The Japanesse version of Red album from Weezer contains three bonus tracks and at least two of them are perfect choice for Radio Petenyi.

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Frightened Rabbit - Liver! Lung! FR! - Midnight Organ Fight Live And Acoustic At The Captain's Rest

In two weeks, on October, 21st, the live album Liver! Lung! FR! from the band Frightened Rabbit will be released in US on the label Fat Cat. It contains 12 songs from Midnight Organ Fight recorded live at The Captain's Rest in July 2008 in Glasgow and mixed afterwards.

You can preview all songs on web page of the label.

Listening suggestions - different version of My Backward Walk and The Twist of which the studio version was featured on last week’s episode of “Chuck”.

Quietly Now! at Fat Cat Records label.

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heard in Radio Petenyi.

New music in Radio Petenyi

In october's playlist you can hear new songs from Land of Talk, The Joy Formidable, Dressy Bessy, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's and several others.

Radio Petenyi is playing 3 hours music show of pop/rock songs from 2008 only - see the home page at Live365.

Land of Talk - Some Are Lakes

Dressy Bessy: "Simple Girlz!"

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Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us

"Everything's gonna get lighter, even if never gets better" Can I have that in writing please? [Lost in Your Inbox]

... there seems to be a bit more craft to things than in the past- and the result is pop perfection. Enjoy! [The Yellow Stereo]

The record is called Re-Arrange Us, and it's out May 20, from Barsuk. [Heartache with Hard Work]

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