Little More sa-world Info

New songs not only under SAWA's own production but others as well including past collaborators Yukihiro Fukutomi, Kentarou Takizawa (Taki <3), and Jazzin'Park. New producers include TeddyLoid and SONPUB!!

Times and credits from TOWER:

1. Opening Ceremony ～Sa-Worldへようこそ～ (00:55)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Composer: SAWA
* Arrangement: SAWA

2. MerryGoRound (04:46)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Composer: 村カワ基成
* Arrangement: 村カワ基成

3. Stars

4. NightBus (04:56)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Composer: Kondou Takashi
* Arrangement: Kondou Takashi, Yukihiro Fukutomi

5. Chocolate Zone ～野生のSAWA～ (01:16)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Composer: Yukihiro Fukutomi
* Arrangement: SAWA

6. Throw Him Away! (02:49)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Composer: Yukihiro Fukutomi
* Arrangement: Yukihiro Fukutomi

7. ManyColors

8. I'm a president (05:07)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Composer: Kubota Makoto
* Arrangement: Jazzin 'park

9. Danger Zone ～逃げろ!危うしSa-World!～ (01:48)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Arrangement: SAWA

10. Swimming Dancing (04:37)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Arrangement: SAWA

11. Friday Night (04:16)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Composer: Yamaki Ryuuitirou
* Arrangement: SONPUB

12. Planet-T (04:17)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Composer: Yass South Hilo
* Arrangement: TeddyLoid

13. Eat It All ~ Live in Sa-World ~ (01:57)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Composer: Takizawa Kentarou
* Arrangement: Takizawa Kentarou, SAWA

14. I Can Fly

15. あいにいくよ

16. Dream about ... (04:15)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Composer: SAWA
* Arrangement: SAWA

17. Thank you for visiting ~ My name is ... ~ (01:14)
* Lyrics: SAWA
* Composer: SAWA
* Arrangement: SAWA

Little Background Info on the new guysss:

MerryGoRound's composer, 村カワ基成, I've not heard of before. The only info I could really find was he had some hand in some of Nice Hashimoto's releases. No new info past 2006 was found on him, which leads me to think he might have met up with SAWA during the time where she was working on her first mini-album.






















TeddyLoid is an up and coming artist who's recently done a slew of remixes for artists including JUSTICE, Kanye West, Space Cowboy and just recently LIL's Moshi Moshi Radio.
















Since 2004, SONPUB has released two albums one in 2004 (Phoenix Beats) and one in '08 (80 T.O 08 Haha). His sound is a bit electro and urban, and frequently has guest vocalists perform on his tracks.

AYUSE KOZUE performing >イノセント少年BOYYY with SONPUB
















Yukihiro Fukutomi, we know of course (SAWA's Obi-Wan!) has produced many of her tracks in the past, Discovery, Sing It Back and a remix of ManyColours. She also performed vocals on a Gundam cover song with Yukihiro titled いまはおやすみ.

Kentaro Takizawa produced past tracks Space Travel, and a remix of World-Wide Tea Party. SAWA also participated on his album last year BIG ROOM, for the stunning track Another Landscape and others.

Lastly the recent collaborators Jazzin'Park produced JetCoaster from あいにいくよ just last month as well as a Stars remix last year on Swimming Dancing.

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No Taku or RAM RIDER, this go 'round, but there's always the future! She recently performed with FPM and seemed to get along with him well, so maybe another future collaborator may be in store for SAWA fans!

That's all the SAWA news for now, yeeesh!

TRACKLIST!~

From sa-world:

SAWA
1st Full Album
Welcome to Sa-World
2010.7.07 release

DVD付初回生産限定盤：ESCL-3475-76　¥3,465(tax in)
通常盤：ESCL-3477　¥3,059(tax in)
※初回盤・通常盤はジャケ違いとなります。

01 Opening Ceremony ～Sa-Worldへようこそ～
02 MerryGoRound
03 Stars
04 NightBus
05 Chocolate Zone ～野生のSAWA～
06 ManyColors
07 I'm a president
08 Throw him away!
09 Danger Zone ～逃げろ！危うしSa-World！～
10 Swimming Dancing
11 Planet-T
12 Friday Night
13 Eat It All ～Live in Sa-World～
14 I Can Fly
15 あいにいくよ
16 Dream about...
17 Thank you for visiting ～My name is...～

Mmm. So full of WTF-ness. Who's excited?

Looks like there's a total of 5 interludes (counting intro and outro)? MerryGoRound is actually a reeally old track, I think. It shares the same title as one of the songs she wrote for her first mini-album that never saw the light of day.. Dunno if it's the same..

Still no sign of Stars or ManyColors PV... waaah!

More info as it comes!

Welcome To Sa-World!

Well well well!

Full album it is! Welcome To Sa-World, out in July!

















So far the details are a bit vague, but it sounds like.. The five title-tracks from the mini-albums, 7 SAWA-produced tracks (including an intro, interlude and outro) and five other new tracks from past producers. (Woo-hoohoo, 17 tracks, really?)

Also .. finally A PV DVD! Right now there's no mention of the PV's for Stars and ManyColors.. but hopefully they'll be put on there..

Don't quote me on this as it's too soon! :P

We've actually heard a bit of the intro during her live Swimming Dancing release party on sa-world RADIO! I had no idea she had composed it herself, I thought maybe ☆taku might have made a one-off for the release party.. but it's really hard sounding stuff! If you missed it before here's a clip.

Right now she's gone on a mini-vacation to South Korea (as she did before COLORS, while she was composing the mini-album-that-never-surfaced), maybe for inspiration, or rest, who knows. Let's hope it does some good!

Preorder @ CDJAPAN/Neo wing
Regular Version
Limited Version w/ DVD

Full Album In Progress?

Well, SAWA's been hard at work in the studio.. Haha!

















「今フルアルバムを制作中です。そんな感じデースw」 !

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A quote taken from Funky-san's blog (a fellow SAWA fan) after he'd been to a recent live featuring SAWA. During her MC he said she'd made quite the announcement.

Take it with a grain of salt, but seems like SAWA's in the midst of working on a full album.

Although I'm a fan of the mini-album medium, any news is good news to me! Let's just hope it's all brand new material.

Jack Knife

Is everyone enjoying 「あいにいくよ」?
























SAWA did a quick video for MUSIC BB, promoting the new mini-album:



Thank you Eight0008!

SAWA has stated in a couple interviews that this mini-album is a return to her roots. Besides, obviously, COLORS and the more pop sound.. SAWA's had experience in this area before.

As mentioned before, she briefly had a solo under the name 'Kouchi'. Before this however she was simply known as 'Sawa Kouchi', in a five-girl group called Jack Knife.

Here's a blurb about SAWA from their old website:

河内　沙和/Sawa Kouchi
1983年11月6日生(20歳)
血液型：AB型
身長：1.57m
靴のサイズ：24.5cm

確固たる自分の世界を持つ天才。つまり他人と同じ事が出来ない困った人。趣味で鍛えたパワフルな声量とキレのあるダンス、そして独特な言動は観る者を魅了。気付いたら彼女しか印象に残ってない事もあるので注意が必要。

Jack Knife did a few lives; judging by an article on one of their performances, mostly covers. They disbanded in 2004.











































It's cool to see how people have evolved over time, and in six years SAWA's steadily gotten better and gotten more recognition. She's really a motivated person, I think, to have released so much in so little time, and to have started so early on.

I'm glad she's gone the direction she has (and hasn't gone idol on us :P) I look forward to many more mini-albums to come!

For more info on Jack Knife, you can still see their old website, and there's a short article on one of their live shows. The group still keeps in contact, I think, they've recently reunited with a few other girls (all as friends) back in March. There's a blog post from one of the girls here.

Thanks to rewak for research and links. He's the best!!

It's out!

あいにいくよ is out! GO GET IT!






















She's doing a couple in-store performances, and a handful of live dates coming up, including a triple-release party for her album, Jazzin' Park, and Ryohei's Rat the Wolf album.

Wooo.

Here's the title track's lyrics from goo.

問いかけてよ
追いかけてよ
ずっと近くにいてよ

ざわめいてる
打ち寄せてる
心のさざ波が

瞬間warpして
teleportateして
君に会いに行けるかな?

会いたいから
ケイタイから
Hey, what are you doing now?

切り取って空に浮かべたいくらい
君の笑顔は溶け出した夕暮れみたい
何気ない言葉が力をくれるから
遠く離れててもそばにいてほしい

今君に伝えたくって
ただ君に伝えたくって
見つめあうと言えなかった
ありがとうと言いたくって

胸のベルが鳴り出して
君のこと　想いだして
気づいたら走り出して
今日が終わる前に
I'll come over...

なかなかなか
会えないけれど
ちゃんと元気でいるよ

「どこにいても笑ってて」と
君に言われたから

幽体離脱で　夜を抜けて
夢の中で逢えたら…
強く願いかけたら飛んでゆけんじゃないか?

今君に会いたくなって
ただ一緒に笑いたくって
言えなかった「ありがとう」を
届けに行くよ　今すぐ

今星屑をはらって
意地っ張りをとりはらって
止めるものは何もないよ
勇気さえあれば
I'll say thank you...

消えてしまいそうに弱いときも
大人になれなくて　涙しても
大丈夫　君がいる
だから　one and two, three steps to you.
今すぐ君のそばへ　あいにいくよ

今君に会いたくなって
ねぇ一緒にいてほしいって
素直に言えそうだから
伝えに行くよ　今すぐ

長い夜の海をこえて
喧騒さえもふりはらって
止めることは出来ないよ
明日がくる前に

今君に伝えたくって
ただ君に伝えたくって
見つめあうと言えなかった
ありがとうと言いたくって

胸のベルが鳴り出して
君のこと　想いだして
気づいたら走り出して
今日が終わる前に
I'll say thank you...

Also, SAWA has started a twitter account! Check it out if you're interested.

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In other news, BREMEN (Haoika, a third of the group, produced SAWA's NightDesert) is finally releasing new music! They've done a cover of Garbage's (Kami-sama, I love GarbagE) When I Grow Up!

It's only physically being released through their live shows, however you can order it from iTunes. :) It'll be released the 21st of April.






















1. When I grow up
2. Freeway
3. Superstar
4. Phantom of a dream

あいにいくよ PV .. HD!

Hope everyone's enjoying the new PV! SAWA never seems to bore with her videos.. Now we can enjoy it in HD, whee!!!

Makes one wonder if there'll be a DVD mini-album on the horizon.. She does such quality videos and there's no releases for them!

Also, if you're interested, check out HaroRangers FanSubs blog for a subtitled version of the Swimming Dancing PV! :D