Got to London last night |
Without having any sleep at all and trying to finish my liner-note on Edgar Jones's new album and... obviously I could not do so, I left my home at about 7 in the morning to head for Narita Airport. A...
Posted by Koichi on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:41:00 PST |
Have you experienced Shibusa? |
As Smashing Mag, I strated almost 10 years ago, is based in Japan, the most of the parts are done by Japanese people, but the reason why I started the English version is simply because this is a web s...
Posted by Koichi on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:35:00 PST |
Che Sudaka & Berri Txarrak |
One of the things I do is to arrange a licensing deal in between an artist and a record company... But I'm not like a broker at all. As a journalist and photographer, I have been covering music and a...
Posted by Koichi on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:18:00 PST |
Hey, Tony! |
I was at an Ethiopian restaurant run by a friend of mine, Solomon, in the evening before the last one and met Don Letts as he is playing tonight somewhere in Tokyo. This restaurant, Queen Sheba in Nak...
Posted by Koichi on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:39:00 PST |
Deaf is not deaf! |
I finished editing my photo report of Amos Garrett (4th Jun. @ Nakameguro Rakya) for Smashing Mag a couple days ago. His guitar was fantastic and the show was so good. As the result Iof it, I bought ...
Posted by Koichi on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:11:00 PST |
Rico, Banda Bassotti & Fermin |
Me and Taiki, a young writer of Smashing Mag, flew to Europe to cover what we call, Rock Latino and the main event was Street Beat Festival 2007 organized by Banda Bassotti and their label, Gridalo Fo...
Posted by Koichi on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:06:00 PST |
The US Government is a robber! |
Everybody knows about this. Not only a robber but a murderer as you could see in the history of the US military forces. They never stop doing the bull shit and in fact I answered to a question in an i...
Posted by Koichi on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:05:00 PST |
Red Hot Chili Peppers kicked of their tour in JPN |
One of the most talented photographers of Smashing Mag, Naoaki Okamura, covered the first show of Red Hot Chili Peppers (5th Jun. @ Tokyo Dome) and his photo report is posted straight away.He sent me ...
Posted by Koichi on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:41:00 PST |
Amos Garrett again |
Kicked off on the 12th of May, Amos was travelling all over Japan and came back to Tokyo for the last 2 shows. The one I checked was in Osaka about which I made a comment here and a report for Smashin...
Posted by Koichi on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:49:00 PST |
Rico Rodriguez with Cool Wise Men |
http://smashingmag.com/tour/07tr/070509rico_hana1.htmlIt took a while to post this photo report of a good friend of mine, Rico Rodriguez , as I had to do all of the updating business of Smashing Mag b...
Posted by Koichi on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:43:00 PST |
