ＨＯＭＭヨ - オム - HOMME - Tokyo girls-will-be-boys rock
Sept 30, 2016 15:52:26 GMT -5
Post by tangerinesun on Sept 30, 2016 15:52:26 GMT -5
ＨＯＭＭヨ / オム / HOMME / ommm / homm3m
Mizue from TsuShiMaMiRe is a friend and fan of bandleader
Mariko Nii, so you probably need to know. Plus — interesting.
Promoting LOADED in 2015: Ba/Cho. Michan, Vo/Gt. Niimari, Dr/Cho. Maho
Since 2005, a dark and arty indie band from the Oyata (NE of Tokyo) area
with the GoodLovin' Production label.
----------
They say: "A three-piece girls rock band. However, girls whose
selling point is savage yet cool performance, instead of beauty."
----------
Aspects of pop, psych, garage, drone and noise. Like the Velvet Underground
in the late '60s when they were Andy Warhol's moderately disturbing house band.
The ＨＯＭＭヨ image is pretty but androgynous. They think it's teenage-bad-boy, but
they're high on a fantasy. Niimariko likes her drama hard and drastic.
Their songs are poems and mini-movies. Not a party band.
Promoting witchman in 2007: not just tomboys, practically real boys
ＨＯＭＭヨ on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/homm3m/
ＨＯＭＭヨ homepage:
ommm.web.fc2.com/
ＨＯＭＭヨ オム on Twitter:
@homm3m
ＨＯＭＭヨ playlist at MySpace:
myspace.com/homme3m/music/songs?
The latest single, 10 months ago. A real rock video.
ＨＯＭＭヨ 'LOADED' MV
2015 DEC 07 by GoodLovinProduction (04:15)
2015 December 09 release
Lead track from the new single "LOADED"
Director : DAISAKU MAEDA
Dir. of Photography: ATSUHIRO SHIRAHATA
Production：MASAHIKO NARITA / NAOKI MASUDA（amana）
HM：IITSUKA YUKO
Special Thanks : MARIKO MAEDA
Limited campaign → hommloaded-official.tumblr.com/
Costume-changes in 2012 at Koenji 20,000 Volts.
They said the evening's theme was cross-dressing.
Now we're in guy drag, cool huh?
Now we're in girl drag, haha, eww – embarrassing!
Now we're as usual, boy-like girls
They explain the current version of their name this way:
ＨＯＭＭヨ – the E is reversed – "ＯＭ" plus YO, you see.
Niimari-chan loves her little word games. This E-flipping started when, maybe 2008
as a typographic stylization. It's been a minor PITA to write and search for ever since.
As a suffix, "yo" means "more than". So, turning E into ヨ is like having the name mean,
"Man, hey", or "more than man" if you feel like forcing. Just don't say it that way, it's a visual.
They also romanize themselves as Homm3m, which looks like a mashup of Homme and 3M,
three-man or trio. Maho has made it ＨＯＭＭヨ－Ｍ３. A choice or a simple mistake?
Not as well known outside Japan as in. I bet you guessed.
2015 July – band image by collaborator/mentor Haruko Kumota.
How they are in the Tarantino-like imaginary world of Niimari-chan.
Niimariko art sample —
surprisingly old-fashioned
Vo/Gt. ニイマリコ Nii Mariko (Niimari, Ninmari)
@ninmari
Other activities: writes and draws Boys Love comic books,
something fan-like called "BL talk", musical comedy, etc.
Ba/Cho. ワダミツコ Mitsuko Wada (Michan)
urunz tumblr photoblog (inactive)
Wada-san's public profile is too low to say much about.
Dr/Cho. キクイマホ Maho Kikui (Maho)
@akaimahoryao
Maho Kikui moonlights drumming for several
groups, including UMINOTE.
2006 — they were pretty primitive drone-rock to begin with.
Safe haven for bands with more ideas than chops.
homme "deadspot" (live at TURNING/Tokyo/JP)
2006 APR 19 by katomani (04:17)
2008 MAY 08 at Tokyo Aoyama LOOP (closed 2013, RIP).
A punk-er side of ＨＯＭＭヨ. Band and videographer both,
a little out of their depth.
ＨＯＭＭＥ dead spot
2008 MAY 08 by youichi-newryokutanshi. (03:59)
Not quite speaking the lyrics right out. Odd because the objectionable
parts are in English.
ＨＯＭＭＥ 08/5/8
2008 MAY 08 by youichi-newryokutanshi. (01:58)
ＨＯＭＭＥ 08/5/8 T2
2008 MAY 09 by youichi-newryokutanshi. (03:43)
〜〜〜〜〜
Into the modern era:
ＨＯＭＭヨ - Iiko da yo - "I'm a Good Girl!"
2010 NOV 07 by dozadozadoza さんのチャンネル
Live at UFO CLUB 2010/10/23
ＨＯＭＭヨ - LiLi
2011 APR 28 by mana suzuki (02:43)
Covering the 1975 hit for Kraftwerk in 2013. They sacrificed the original Morse Code
synthesizer beeps and boops in favor of an actual beat, and a bassline like whalesong.
Kraftwerk – Radio-Aktivität (1975) album version at YouTube
There's a little play on radio activity as "activity on the radio". You
remember terrestrial broadcast radio. We want the airwaves, baby.
Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me
Radioactivity
Discovered by Madame Curie
Radioactivity
Tune in to the melody
Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me
Radio Aktivität
Für dich und mich in All entsteht
Radio Aktivität
Strahlt Wellen zum Empfangsgerät
Radio Aktivität
Wenn's um unsere Zukunft geht
Radio Aktivität
Für dich und mich in All entsteht
ＨＯＭＭヨ Radioaktivität (KRAFTWERK COVER)
2013 OCT 09 by GoodLovinProduction (05:31)
Performed on 2013 October 4 at Shinjuku MOTION. ＨＯＭＭヨ debuted their cover
of Kraftwerk at the 3rd and final consecutive monthly "Ohm, Sweet Ohm" event.
Camera / Mana Suzuki
"Ohm Sweet Ohm" was a little Japanese Kraftwerk festival, I'm guessing.
〜〜〜〜〜
Noir story time:
ＨＯＭＭヨ "Iiko da yo (I'm a Good Girl!)" PV
2012 SEP 24 by GoodLovinProduction
From the 3rd ＨＯＭＭヨ album, NO IMAGE
PV shot by video director Hiroki Tsuda-san
Something sweeter, not entirely.
The MV from the following year is, ah, very gritty in places.
ＨＯＭＭヨ ライカ "Laika"
2013 OCT 09 by GoodLovinProduction (06:20)
Performed on 2013 October 4 at Shinjuku MOTION. ＨＯＭＭヨ played their new song
"Laika" at the 3rd and final consecutive monthly "Ohm, Sweet Ohm" event.
Camera / Mana Suzuki
Don't you wonder how she made it through the set with that cough? Fortitude.
〜〜〜〜〜
2016 MAY 26 @ TOKYO Daikanyama
Photography: Yoshiyuki Shiraiwa
"When it's sunny, sow beans in the sky"
Uh, OK. This "Déraciné" is the favorite child right now.
ＨＯＭＭヨ / Derashine (Déraciné, uprooted person)
2016 JUL 12 by ＨＯＭＭヨ (03:16)
ＨＯＭＭヨ / cold finger
2016 SEP 07 by ＨＯＭＭヨ (04:11)
Title track from the 2014 release.
Mizue from TsuShiMaMiRe is a friend and fan of bandleader
Mariko Nii, so you probably need to know. Plus — interesting.
Promoting LOADED in 2015: Ba/Cho. Michan, Vo/Gt. Niimari, Dr/Cho. Maho
Since 2005, a dark and arty indie band from the Oyata (NE of Tokyo) area
with the GoodLovin' Production label.
----------
They say: "A three-piece girls rock band. However, girls whose
selling point is savage yet cool performance, instead of beauty."
----------
Aspects of pop, psych, garage, drone and noise. Like the Velvet Underground
in the late '60s when they were Andy Warhol's moderately disturbing house band.
The ＨＯＭＭヨ image is pretty but androgynous. They think it's teenage-bad-boy, but
they're high on a fantasy. Niimariko likes her drama hard and drastic.
Their songs are poems and mini-movies. Not a party band.
Promoting witchman in 2007: not just tomboys, practically real boys
ＨＯＭＭヨ on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/homm3m/
ＨＯＭＭヨ homepage:
ommm.web.fc2.com/
ＨＯＭＭヨ オム on Twitter:
@homm3m
ＨＯＭＭヨ playlist at MySpace:
myspace.com/homme3m/music/songs?
The latest single, 10 months ago. A real rock video.
ＨＯＭＭヨ 'LOADED' MV
2015 DEC 07 by GoodLovinProduction (04:15)
2015 December 09 release
Lead track from the new single "LOADED"
Director : DAISAKU MAEDA
Dir. of Photography: ATSUHIRO SHIRAHATA
Production：MASAHIKO NARITA / NAOKI MASUDA（amana）
HM：IITSUKA YUKO
Special Thanks : MARIKO MAEDA
Limited campaign → hommloaded-official.tumblr.com/
Costume-changes in 2012 at Koenji 20,000 Volts.
They said the evening's theme was cross-dressing.
Now we're in guy drag, cool huh?
Now we're in girl drag, haha, eww – embarrassing!
Now we're as usual, boy-like girls
They explain the current version of their name this way:
ＨＯＭＭヨ – the E is reversed – "ＯＭ" plus YO, you see.
Niimari-chan loves her little word games. This E-flipping started when, maybe 2008
as a typographic stylization. It's been a minor PITA to write and search for ever since.
As a suffix, "yo" means "more than". So, turning E into ヨ is like having the name mean,
"Man, hey", or "more than man" if you feel like forcing. Just don't say it that way, it's a visual.
They also romanize themselves as Homm3m, which looks like a mashup of Homme and 3M,
three-man or trio. Maho has made it ＨＯＭＭヨ－Ｍ３. A choice or a simple mistake?
Not as well known outside Japan as in. I bet you guessed.
2015 July – band image by collaborator/mentor Haruko Kumota.
How they are in the Tarantino-like imaginary world of Niimari-chan.
Niimariko art sample —
surprisingly old-fashioned
Vo/Gt. ニイマリコ Nii Mariko (Niimari, Ninmari)
@ninmari
Other activities: writes and draws Boys Love comic books,
something fan-like called "BL talk", musical comedy, etc.
Ba/Cho. ワダミツコ Mitsuko Wada (Michan)
urunz tumblr photoblog (inactive)
Wada-san's public profile is too low to say much about.
Dr/Cho. キクイマホ Maho Kikui (Maho)
@akaimahoryao
Maho Kikui moonlights drumming for several
groups, including UMINOTE.
2006 — they were pretty primitive drone-rock to begin with.
Safe haven for bands with more ideas than chops.
homme "deadspot" (live at TURNING/Tokyo/JP)
2006 APR 19 by katomani (04:17)
2008 MAY 08 at Tokyo Aoyama LOOP (closed 2013, RIP).
A punk-er side of ＨＯＭＭヨ. Band and videographer both,
a little out of their depth.
ＨＯＭＭＥ dead spot
2008 MAY 08 by youichi-newryokutanshi. (03:59)
Not quite speaking the lyrics right out. Odd because the objectionable
parts are in English.
ＨＯＭＭＥ 08/5/8
2008 MAY 08 by youichi-newryokutanshi. (01:58)
ＨＯＭＭＥ 08/5/8 T2
2008 MAY 09 by youichi-newryokutanshi. (03:43)
〜〜〜〜〜
Into the modern era:
ＨＯＭＭヨ - Iiko da yo - "I'm a Good Girl!"
2010 NOV 07 by dozadozadoza さんのチャンネル
Live at UFO CLUB 2010/10/23
ＨＯＭＭヨ - LiLi
2011 APR 28 by mana suzuki (02:43)
Covering the 1975 hit for Kraftwerk in 2013. They sacrificed the original Morse Code
synthesizer beeps and boops in favor of an actual beat, and a bassline like whalesong.
Kraftwerk – Radio-Aktivität (1975) album version at YouTube
There's a little play on radio activity as "activity on the radio". You
remember terrestrial broadcast radio. We want the airwaves, baby.
Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me
Radioactivity
Discovered by Madame Curie
Radioactivity
Tune in to the melody
Radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me
Radio Aktivität
Für dich und mich in All entsteht
Radio Aktivität
Strahlt Wellen zum Empfangsgerät
Radio Aktivität
Wenn's um unsere Zukunft geht
Radio Aktivität
Für dich und mich in All entsteht
ＨＯＭＭヨ Radioaktivität (KRAFTWERK COVER)
2013 OCT 09 by GoodLovinProduction (05:31)
Performed on 2013 October 4 at Shinjuku MOTION. ＨＯＭＭヨ debuted their cover
of Kraftwerk at the 3rd and final consecutive monthly "Ohm, Sweet Ohm" event.
Camera / Mana Suzuki
"Ohm Sweet Ohm" was a little Japanese Kraftwerk festival, I'm guessing.
〜〜〜〜〜
Noir story time:
ＨＯＭＭヨ "Iiko da yo (I'm a Good Girl!)" PV
2012 SEP 24 by GoodLovinProduction
From the 3rd ＨＯＭＭヨ album, NO IMAGE
PV shot by video director Hiroki Tsuda-san
Something sweeter, not entirely.
The MV from the following year is, ah, very gritty in places.
ＨＯＭＭヨ ライカ "Laika"
2013 OCT 09 by GoodLovinProduction (06:20)
Performed on 2013 October 4 at Shinjuku MOTION. ＨＯＭＭヨ played their new song
"Laika" at the 3rd and final consecutive monthly "Ohm, Sweet Ohm" event.
Camera / Mana Suzuki
Don't you wonder how she made it through the set with that cough? Fortitude.
〜〜〜〜〜
2016 MAY 26 @ TOKYO Daikanyama
Photography: Yoshiyuki Shiraiwa
"When it's sunny, sow beans in the sky"
Uh, OK. This "Déraciné" is the favorite child right now.
ＨＯＭＭヨ / Derashine (Déraciné, uprooted person)
2016 JUL 12 by ＨＯＭＭヨ (03:16)
ＨＯＭＭヨ / cold finger
2016 SEP 07 by ＨＯＭＭヨ (04:11)
Title track from the 2014 release.
(08:38)