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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 29, 2017 3:36:59 GMT -5
CHAI will rule the world with J-rap, funk, pop and soul. And charm. And artistic intent. And they're smart.
 2015 – Homespun natural beauties – "I am a perfect Monroe."L/R above: Ba & Cho
Vo & Gt
Vo & Kb
Dr & Cho | ユウキ
カナ
マナ
ユナ | Yuuki
Kana
Mana
Yuna |
Official HP: chai-band.com Official Twitter: twitter.com/2525_chai Official Instagram: www.instagram.com/chai_official/ Official Facebook: www.facebook.com/CHAIJAPAN/ Official YT Channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCVieoyO8NvikN4kCG61ArPw CHAI at Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/0NZsNnETGPWLKJj2Y0vpBx Mana and Kana are identical twins who are easy to tell apart by their style choices. Currently bangs on Mana, forehead on Kana. Kana's usually got the more serious look. Instead of giving in to insecurity, the whole band makes fun of its completely un-idolish Japanese looks. In their view, Yuuki is the only one who's conventionally pretty. They overwhelm everything with personality and originality regardless. Ask them about their goals and they'll say they want to be more manly than the men.  2016 – Can't you please sexy up for The Road to The Grammys? OK, fine.CHAI name-checks both Gorillaz and Tom Tom Club, which makes total sense. Their private label is OTEMOYAN Record, named after a folk song and dance ( Otemoyan, and an Otemoyan Samba) from Higo with obscure origins. " Otemoyan" is used somewhat like "aunty" at times. As a character, Otemoyan is a cheerful, hardy, rustic, freckle-faced woman decked in an antique hairstyle and clothing, with bright red lipstick and heavy cheek rouge.
  The bear and the legendOtemoyan is so well associated with Kumamoto that the red cheeks made it onto Kumamon, the prefectural black bear mascot .
From the press bio:
The quartet composed of Miracle Twins Kana and Mana with the strongest manly rhythm section
of Yuna and Yuuki. "NEO - the New Excite On'na Band", that's CHAI.
An extraordinary badass band, loaded with emotion, playing the music that everybody wanted to do,
completely unaware. In the spring of 2016, all at once the rhyme "CHAI yabai" was on the lips of
a variety of people, and suddenly one day, the un-promoted sample song "Gyaranbu" was ranked
on the Spotify UK TOP 50 Chart (※ 36th place highest ranking).
In 2017 a SXSW appearance with an 8-city national tour was determined. As of April 26, CHAI's
jam-packed 2nd EP Homegoro Series is released…Their other favorite catchphrases: • NEO kawaii band (If you're not cute, be post-cute) • Complex is art! (Psychological kinks? Good for creativity!) • The Road to The Grammys (taking the award on behalf of all Japan) • To be ranked third in the world (humble enough to accept the bronze medal) The press bio omits that they formed in Nagoya about 2012, that bassist Yuuki was recruited with no prior experience, and that in spite of this they had world-class ambition from the start. They see themselves as a hip-hop and pop groove band that represents the traditional Japanese values of girlishness and weirdness. Within the quartet, they've got crazy writing, producing, movie, fashion and graphics ability. Their first release was a songwriting and production tour-de-force as wacky and as sugary in places as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu… and it also had that J-funk monsterpiece "Gyaranbu". They followed up with a second EP with 4 new tracks in the same vein, and they're going to know soon if their surprise hit was an accident or an omen.
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 29, 2017 5:04:39 GMT -5
❤️ Shop Greetings 13 ❤️ Umeda NU Chayamachi Tower Records Store
@tower_NUchaya
Oh joy! It's selling! 💞💞 Quantities of Homegoro participation tickets and benefits are limited, so hurry! 💞 No.13 in an apparently endless series. CHAI are hitting every major retailer possible to push their new EP on Twitter. The true meaning of indy is, you have publishing, you have a label, you have a distribution deal or six, and you still do the work of the publisher, the label, the distributor because you're too little for them to commit a lot of effort. CHAI will probably never outgrow that no matter how big they get, unless they enter the meat grinder of a major label distribution deal. I'd sooner see them stumping at Tower Records. They've been waiting since Japan Nite 2017 for this release, like all the people who saw them play. 〜〜〜〜〜 The lead single, "Sound & Stomach" live in Osaka: lute live：CHAI「Sound & Stomach」2017 APR 21 by lute / ルーテ (03:26) 「Grand Prix, Sudden American Festival Casting Audition」
Winning the grand prix,"New Excite On'na Band" CHAI played in Japan Nite
at SXSW in March 2017. "Sound & Stomach" live footage from 23 February at
Osaka Minami Horie knave, the independently produced "'Road to The Grammys'
Season 2 in Osaka" is released.
The national tour was also a big success. Now how to praise without praising?!
New release and independent productions to be held in May!
■ 2nd EP "Homegoro Series"
Price: ¥1,600 + TAX
Product Number: CHAI-001
Label: OTEMOYAN recordCHAI『ヴィレヴァンの』Official Music Video2016 NOV 07 by CHAI official (03:55) CHAI's new song is the "CHAIP-HOP" tune familiar from live shows, "Villivan's"!!!
The release date is undecided but as we can't wait for the release, and since
we made a music video, we're releasing it first on YouTube!!!〜〜〜 Village Vanguard Exciting Book Store — VilliVan or VV for short — is a chain of general stores specializing in everything you need for your life as a cool person without money. Birthday gifts, novelty goods, clothing items, furniture/interior, miscellaneous goods, books, CDs/DVDs… costumes and stage blood… things that glow in the dark… Online store vvstore.jp/Company website www.village-v.co.jp/Twitter @vgvd〜〜〜 Record reviewOf course, Ototoy sells the records they review, so there's a high gloss on everything. But they can't get away with lipstick on a pig.
Powered up after their US tour, CHAI release the strongest 2nd EP, "Homegoro Series"ototoy.jp/feature/20170426002Returning from their US tour, they release their second
and even more muscular EP "Hamegoro Series". Followed up with weak song-by-song reviews by guest-writer interns, and a brief band profile. It's a stretch to call this EP more muscular than the first one. The earlier release was a tour de force that would give Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's production a good run for the money. Actually, the writing and arranging somewhat kicked KPP's fluffy butt. The second EP is more focused on the groove, which is good in a way and bad in a way. Blame the earlier success of "Gyanranbu". HQD download in 24-bit x 48kHz resolution for ￥1000: ototoy.jp/_/default/p/74200The title of the EP is approximately "Killing Praise Series" in Japanese. Hamegoroshi is a noun meaning excessive praise, with a specific bad history in show business and politics. The connotation is poisoning someone's career, either by spoiling them young, or setting them up for a backlash. The first EP, Hattaraka Series, expressed the opposite fear. Hattarakashi is harmful neglect and lack of attention. |
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 30, 2017 19:26:01 GMT -5
CHAI can't issue just any old regular New Year's Greeting This was when they were preparing The Road to the Grammys #2 It's very geeky humor, but eventually I start smiling because they are cracking themselves up with this. Their esprit de nerd is strong. To transmit "NEO kawaii", a declaration of
resolutions by New Excite On'na-band "CHAI"… CHAI 2017年の抱負会見2016 DEC 31 by CHAI official (02:52) Happy New Year!
CHAI's 2017 statement for release:
1. To control CHAI, all you need is fried food
2. CHAI believe the flavor of chitterlings should be limited to miso
3. CHAI will have chest hair and GARANBŪ ¹
4. CHAI will subvert the image of pinkness
5. So as to prepare the oral environment, CHAI will continue to carry MINTIA
6. All dumplings will be made in wrappers of CHAI skin
7. CHAI will get fat from stress
8. CHAI will be wild/rough, by a study of the spirit of player SUAREZ ²
9. CHAI will increase the rate of going to the dentist, reduce the number toothbrushes replaced, and will not foster obsessions regarding toothpaste
10. CHAI can't be SECOM ³
11. If CHAI gets into a man, it will probably be one of the 3-or-5 Bs: (Beautician, Bandman, Bartender, Bruno Mars, Beckham)
12. CHAI will have the self-confidence not to cover up complexes
13. CHAI will rely on the twins for coming trends from now on
14. CHAI will retain the feeling of pride in having black hair
15. CHAI does not need to be No.1 ⁴, we're special from the start, the Only 1, 2, 3. ⁵
16. CHAI will give a strong impression of eyebrows
17. Except for those who've been told they are kawaii, CHAI will make everyone in the world "NEO kawaii "
18. CHAI plans to do Facebook properly, but how (?)
19. CHAI will have a one-man show by CHAI for CHAI to be CHAI!
20. CHAI will cross oceans and overstep national boundaries
21. CHAI will await your heartfelt booing Then they turn thumbs down and make little booing noises. The booing is usually the climax of their live set, when they play their UK hit, "Gyaranboo". Support us again in 2017, OK?!〜〜〜〜〜 (1) GARANBŪ is a mis-pronunciation of the slang GARANDŪ = tummy hair. The folk etymology is strange and interesting. (2) Evidently Luis Suarez, the football forward for Barcelona who has been suspended in the past for biting another player. (3) The Japanese business, home and personal security services company (4) CHAI are making fun of the 2003 SMAP song "Only One Flower in the World", famous for the lines, "You don't need to be Number One, You're special from the start, the Only One." SMAP "Only one flower in the world"Concert after the earthquake, 5 years ago tomorrow2016 MAR 14 by by okaim555 (04:30) It's like the international snowflake anthem. (5) So… what they're saying is, all it would take to make their week would be owning the top three chart positions simultaneously. They ask so little.
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Post by tangerinesun on May 3, 2017 19:48:52 GMT -5
Postcards from Austin, TX
This is pretty much the impression CHAI make in real life.
They're like fairies. Fairies that spank stick ponies.
Excuse me —Miss— are you planning to buy that?
Shot entirely on location in… various places including the state capitol,
the park, the streets, the aisles of big-box discount stores like Savers.
Hope they did well there, they love thrift stores for clothes.
Smilin' dude at 00:48
CHAI「sayonara complex」
2017 APR 28 by lute / ルーテ (04:28)
The MV was done at intervals during SXSW while walking around the city of Austin!
All filming was done spontaneously and the girls improvised the choreography themselves.
The MV of "Sayonara Complex" is released.
Nevertheless, it's not a web-based smartphone epic as they have done before.
The improv character is real, but it's a full production by lute with director,
cameraman, editor.
Director: Kurando Furuya
Camera: Koichi Takagi
Editor: Kota Ishii
Produced by: lute
The nose-holding sit-down vignettes make more sense when you see that they've
done the same thing with their feet in the convention center swimming pool.
If you had that crew with you, your travel movies would be more fun too,
although maybe not this fun.
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Post by tangerinesun on May 13, 2017 22:46:42 GMT -5
Live snippetshttp://instagr.am/p/BTySOYgFLF9 Canal City. How do you do, Fukuoka! A heartful thank-you 👨👧👧👨👨👦👦👩👩👧👦👩👩👦👦👩👩👧👧👨👩👧👦👨👩👦👦👨👩👧👧 The atmosphere felt really comfortable〜 "Heartful" is just a word that Japan thought should not be missing from the English language. Canal City is a Fukuoka shopping district, where it looks like they've hung 30 or 40 stage lights by the central water feature as part of a free event they call Canal Fringe Fest. http://instagr.am/p/BTyziNDFcbS Nice to meet you, Fukuoka, thank you 💜 It's the first time and yet
It isn't like the first time…They go on, in the local hakata dialect, to say they'll come back soon, and they've made up a song about how happy they'll be, to a familiar melody. http://instagr.am/p/BT6eoqYl6Di Dear, do you know about… CHAI? Wrong!! That is *not* what I mean…
Looks to me like they are acting out a sort of Punch and Judy puppet show. Yuna especially seems to be moving like a marionette. (?) After the blackout skit, they dance to their own hits sitting on the couch. And there's a full trailer for the EP. CHAI 2nd EP "Homegoro Series" special trailer2017 MAY 10 by CHAI official (02:55) The reason they can confidently be such dorks is, there's probably never been a time in their whole lives that it didn't work for them. http://instagr.am/p/BUDhac1FLWO Young Lion Festival '17
2nd bath〜〜💛 Mana's improv lion dance. Young Lion is an annual one-day mini festival series on the grounds of Osaka Castle. The 2017 installment is today (Sunday). Evidently they're there now, along co-headliners like the peggies, Charan Po Rantan, Helsinki Lambda Club, Teto and more. Shimizu Hot Spring Baths is the sponsor. Not quite sure how that all works.
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Post by tangerinesun on May 14, 2017 2:17:41 GMT -5
CHAI, Bath No.2
The show was the highlight although it's my first time seeing them…
although I thought various things like wondering who and what they were,
when you hear the sound of these girls you have to give up your heart
and get on board! I got a perfect signature〜
Young Lion Festival '17
Thank you Osaka Castle Sound!
The sunny-sun-sun was hot, huh〜
Everyone's boos were great.
Photo by Kano Sakakibara (@tf_SS_ 0325)
After this the Grove, the Street, Markeplace 2017
CIRCLE STAGE 7:20pm~
Afternoon set's over, evening yet to go.
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Post by tangerinesun on May 18, 2017 18:50:08 GMT -5
http://instagr.am/p/BUOpm6hlHLi 🐼 AWESOME 🐼 at TV Kanagawa's "Next Generation Rock Laboratory"
just before broadcast of the "CHAI User's Manual" special with Mana/Kana
as MCs 🎉 CHAI's first time chatting in Chinatown, they're going to know
everything about CHAI 💁🏿💁🏿💁🏿💁🏿 On Air: TVK 5/27 10:30–11:00pmHoly smokes, they dressed to party like it's 1899. I guess they know what they're doing. They don't say which city or why Chinatown or... |
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Post by tangerinesun on Jun 7, 2017 18:33:54 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Jun 9, 2017 19:51:04 GMT -5
http://instagr.am/p/BVIxH4nBDzt I found super-cute sushi 💕 🍣 💕 Today at CHAI with an incomplete team
It's jingisukan-eating day 🦄 👩👩👧👧 👩👩👧👧 Awesome, looking forward to it 💜 💙 💚 💛 ❤️ That'd be tricky to roll. Jingishukan = Genghis Khan, a grilled dinner of mutton and vegetablescooked over a flame in a deep skillet. How this got to be big in Nagoya, you'd have to ask Yuuki. |
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Post by tangerinesun on Jun 16, 2017 4:03:05 GMT -5
http://instagr.am/p/BVTtE7WlbX7 🇯🇵 Instant Suspense Theater 🇯🇵 "Chapter 2 - A Woman's Hatred"
Live today at Shinjuku LOFT 💜 They love playing spur of the moment scenes of Mana suddenly falling victim to poisoning by Yuna, like in historical dramas about the Chinese imperial court. http://instagr.am/p/BVTwfxqDdqw No eyebrows were harmed by the poisoned lipstick http://instagr.am/p/BVXeKAQBQh3 Today I was cheering for Yuna, but after the show Kohei Kondo let me do
live painting ❤️ watch〜I was told I paint the same way as children who come to workshops (laugh)
I just pile it on without wiping the brush, isn't that right〜〜😙 💕💕 Yuna was a wonderful drummer today 🌈 👴 🌈 What brush, she was painting with her fingers like a toddler. Live-paint performer Kohei Kondo was working a show with saxophonist Yuichiro Kato. Yuna went to play drums, and the rest of CHAI followed along as support. |
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Post by tangerinesun on Jun 18, 2017 17:40:54 GMT -5
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Post by lazybone712 on Jul 1, 2017 20:13:56 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 16, 2017 5:46:16 GMT -5
CHAI becoming a household item
About 2 months ago: "This song's AWWEsome," I took this at an early DJ
event, it's #JAINAGO I think ♪
The GYARANBU dance while wearing the uniform of the #Dragons ♪
I got Kana-chan and Yuki-chan from Chai to take photos〜!
Their live was the greatest, too〜
I love them to excess〜!
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 26, 2017 2:46:31 GMT -5
Dressing room amusements at the end of last monthhttp://instagr.am/p/BVukIbelQkI Mito thank you arigato 💛 ! PanPan Sonic was a super good feeling 🌈
Next time is not until 7/16 Tsukuba Rock Fest 2017 💜 💜 Everybody in
Ibaraki Prefecture, see you later 〜〜 ❤️ You were all so cute 🍓 Pan and Span
http://instagr.am/p/BV_4I4MlDop Mihoudai 2017
CHAI at 7:30pm 〜 at hills pan koujou (Hills Bread Factory)Urban summer festival in the Osaka Minami area Panpan SUPAN pan pan SUPAN Panpan SUPAN pan pan SUPAN Panpan SUPAN pan pan SUPAN
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 26, 2017 2:47:11 GMT -5
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