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Luminous Orange

Luminous Guitar Rock from Japan

About Me

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"Every Single Child" (2007)
"Autumn Song"(2008) live
Since its forming in 1992, the distinct song writing style keeps rousing keen rock fans who fed up with major Karaoke-rock, while inspiring fellow and follower musicians such as Number Girl, Hidaka from Beat Crusaders,Condor44, etc. Cornelius and Ian Masters (ex.Pale Saints) were so lured by her music that released her stuff from their labels, Trattoria and Friendly Science, that result in good chart actions and total sales of 22,000 copies. Luminous Orange consists of Rie--singer, guitarist & songwriter, supported by reliable fellow musicians. Layers of delicate female voices with glittering,sometimes harsh guitars & synth on aggressive rhythms with hints of bossanova ,electronica, classic impressionism. It dazzles!! Chosen as a performer for Colette's millenium party in Paris, CMJ Music Marathon 2001 & 2004, SXSW2006 and SXSW2007!!Rie also sang on a couple of tracks of Ian Masters' Friendly Science Orchestra, the single "Miniature Album"was selected as Single of The Week of NME. Ian also sang on Luminous Orange as a guest vocalist, for a couple of times.Though few Luminous Orange materials are distributed outside Japan,some CDs are available from official Luminous Orange website(http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~luminous), tonevendor(http://www.tonevendor.com/) , and CD Baby(http://www.cdbaby.com/). also MP3s are available from iTunes Music Store.Anyway, the new album "Sakura Swirl" is coming out from NY based Music Related and going to be distributed in the US and Europe and Japan!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/5/2004
Band Website: www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~luminous/english_.htm
Band Members: Rie Takeuchi(vo/g/key)Ahito Inazawa(dr) Masataka Fujii(g) Takehito Kouno(b) nakamu(cho)
Influences: Pale Saints,Sonic Youth,My Bloody Valentine,Pixies,Cornelius,Jim O'rourke, Claude Debussey, Gabriel Faule, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Jaco Pastorius, REM, the Smiths, Joy Division, Jesus And Marychain, New Order, Primal Scream, Spiritualized, YMO, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, The Stone Roses, Dinasaur Jr. , etc.
Sounds Like: my bloody valentine,sonic youth.pale saints,lush, yo la tengo
Record Label: Music Related(US), Navigation(Japan)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Interview for Alchemy Radio on the web

Interview (English / Japanese) for a radio show called "Asian Pop Show", by Alchemy Radio in Australia is now available online.interview pageIt was really difficult to speak on the phone .... I like ...
Posted by Luminous Orange on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:51:00 PST

New demo, gig with Pia Fraus

I uploaded a new home recorded demo on the profile page.We only just started practicing this song in studio, so it will take some time to play this song at gigs. I really love Ahito's drumming, so whe...
Posted by Luminous Orange on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:57:00 PST

New Shoegaze-Dreampop Compilation

Dear all,I hope you've been enjoying the summer (winter, if you are in the southern hemisphere) and our recent 4 song samples.Before I am steamed to death by this deadly heat & humidity of Yokohama Ja...
Posted by Luminous Orange on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:02:00 PST

New samples

4 New samples have been uploaded.As you can't upload more than 6 songs, 2 sample files are combined in one file, and I uploaded 2 of such files.All the 4 songs are tentatively mixed, so they are not f...
Posted by Luminous Orange on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:26:00 PST

Working proof

Uploaded a working proof of Sea of Lights.I am recently working on some pre-production.Sound-making of the guitars was really difficult... when you want to make them exactly like the sounds in your he...
Posted by Luminous Orange on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:27:00 PST

Autumn gigs, Autumn Song Demo

I uploaded a home-recorded demo version of Autumn Song.I'll delete it couple of days later like the last time.I accidentally copied some drum sequences on the other sequences. But that made an interes...
Posted by Luminous Orange on Sat, 31 May 2008 03:20:00 PST

New home-recorded DEMO

I uploaded a home-recorded new song.I did it hoping if this will be your little amusement, because we currently don't have any live shows planned, and I guess our next show will be no sooner than Sept...
Posted by Luminous Orange on Wed, 21 May 2008 10:19:00 PST

Autumn Song

I added a movie to Youtube.The song is called "Autumn Song", I wrote this last Autumn.We ’d been practicing hard, and it’s already Spring..... ...
Posted by Luminous Orange on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:31:00 PST

Our PV on TV

NHK international(Nippon Housou Kyokai.... meaning, Japan Broadcasting Association)informed me last night that they had decided to play one of our PVs.The program is called j-MELO, it's been broadcast...
Posted by Luminous Orange on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:43:00 PST

Walkblind PV

A couple of weeks ago, a guy from NHK (Japan broadcasting) Internationale-mailed me that he would like me to send our video clips if I had any.I didn't have any videos at all, so I asked several frien...
Posted by Luminous Orange on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:20:00 PST