SAWA has written lyrics for folk music unit 赤い靴 (The Red Shoes).
The unit is comprised of instrumentalist Kamiya Junpei, vocalist/songwriter Higashikawa Akiko as well as various other guest artists. SAWA's writing is featured on the track "Where to?", and the album is out on the fourth of April.
Also just a little heads up: SAWA's been performing at a string of lives since late 2011 as DJ alter-ego DJ WASA. Most of the dates have not been up on her official website, but she's been giving little mentions of it on her blog and twitter.
This is a slightly-off topic post about recent and frequent SAWA collaborator, Hisashi Nawata.
He's been working behind the scenes with artists a lot the past few of years, and seems to becoming more and more prominent.
Originally, he mostly collaborated with m-flo's VERBAL (some arranging on Visionair, BoA's BUMP! BUMP!, Sowelu's NEVER) and Taku (Sowelu's MATERIAL WORLD, Ami Suzuki's Reincarnation) producing for other artists, but he's been branching out and producing on his own.
Last year he worked on thumping, ethereal track for Shibasaki Kou called パラレルワールド・リーディング (Parallel World Reading) from her album CIRCLE CYCLE. This month, he produced her new single Strength, which SAWA recently gushed about on her twitter. He's also producing Shibasaki Kou's yet to be released single ANOTHER WORLD, out this summer.
Of course, he also created SAWA's あいにいくよ back in 2010, but now has also collaborated with her for a track for Nozomi which has yet to be released (as well as another song titled Diamond Days.)
He's been performing on keys for SAWA's live band off and on, and they've been in and out of the studio recently... I personally love his work, he gives everything this glossy, synthy feel, and hope he works with SAWA much more in the not too distant future.
The tracks named are really just the tip of all the artists he's worked with. For a total list, check out his site. Check out his twitter as well.
The song SAWA wrote recently for Sasaki Nozomi, カラフルワールド, is going to appear on Sasaki's new album NOZOMI COLLECTION, coming out in April. There will be a PV for the track on this release as well.
The two tracks with note native are out now, on physical release and iTunes.
Also, mentioned on her twitter by a fan and on her blog today, SAWA performed yet another new song live titled Good day sun shine.
Current list of new songs played live: Good day sun shine Bubble Wrap Tomorrow Tell A Lie Mr. Brown Happy Birthday あおぞら No Appointment Romeo + as well as a few covers
'Tis all for now~ Hope you're having a nice day today. If not, find a few minutes to take to yourself. Go outside, put on some headphones, regroup your thoughts, make yourself a nice lunch if you can. Adiós!
SAWA has written the lyrics for model/talent Sasaki Nozomi's newest single カラフルワールド (Colorful World, how SAWAesque..) You can hear a snippet of it in this shampoo cm.
**Update** The track is produced by recent SAWA collaborator Nawata Hisashi.
The unit is comprised of instrumentalist Kamiya Junpei, vocalist/songwriter Higashikawa Akiko as well as various other guest artists. SAWA's writing is featured on the track "Where to?", and the album is out on the fourth of April.
