Saturday, October 1, 2011

Tiny Little Update

Quiet in the SAWA camp..

SAWA has been doing live performances here and there, and she's played a new song yesterday called Tell A Lie. Along with one of the other songs mentioned before, あおぞら.

Also a few weeks ago she did her (sudden) final Sa-world Radio show.

Hopefully things will pick up soon, keep in touch!

Monday, June 27, 2011

New Songs Played at Latest Live

There are a few reports of SAWA's latest one man stating she performed three new songs titled:

ミスターブラウン (Mr. Brown)
ハッピーバースデー (Happy Birthday)
青空 (Aozora; Blue Sky)

Also in attendance were Aya Arvin homa (a frequent lyric collaborator on SAWA's albums), DJ AYUMi (recent producer, for Christmas Eve), Yukihiro Fukutomi (SAWA's Obi-Wan) and Emi Tawada.



There's also a string of new live dates for next month and another big one-man in November.

We'll keep ya posted.





EDIT:
Setlist from SAWA's mixi, posted from Funky-san's blog

01. New thank you for visiting
02. JetCoaster
03. ManyColors
~ MC ~
04. Green
05. Stars
06. イチゴ畑でつかまえて
~ MC ~
07. Mysterious Zone
~ MC ~
08. Space Travel
09. Planet-T
10. Swimming Dancing
11. 春に (木下牧子 cover; choral arrangement)
~ MC ~
12. Mr. Brown (New Song!)
13. Happy Birthday (New Song!)
14. あいにいくよ 
~ MC ~
15. I'm a President
~ Encore ~
16. あおぞら(New Song!)
17. I Can Fly

Mr. Brown is a swing style track and あおぞら (青空/Aozora/Blue Sky) is a mid-tempo ballad.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

RAM RIDER's Stars

Fresh from the RIDER's twittah:



I'm so in love.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

"Title that doesn't stir up insane excitement but let's everyone know that it seems like there might be some progress"

Hullo~

No big news, sorry.. However SAWA tweeted a pic of some interest today of Hisashi Nawata working on a track at her place.

Haha, notice the SAWA glass.

So... something in the works..

Nawata recently did some production on Shibasaki Kou's CIRCLE CYCLE album with one of hte best tracks on it, パラレルワールド・リーディング (Parallel World Reading) and Sowelu's album last year with the song NEVER feat. VERBAL. Of course he also produced SAWA's last mini-album title track, あいにいくよ, so expecting good things!

Give it a listen

They seem to be pretty good friends and he's joined her for many lives to play keyboard as well.. Wonder if they'll have it finished for the next big one-man-live?

....

Also.. there's a post of SAWA-fan interest at the wonderful STEREO_NiGHT LJ community.. you might wanna check it out. You have to join, though!

Also2.. SAWA's started her myspace blog back up, check it out for some pics she took of her recent trip to Paris!

That is all for now!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

New Cover Song for Compilation

SAWA has completed a new track, a Seiko Matsuda cover いちご畑でつかまえて (Ichigobatake de tsukamaete/Catcher in the Strawberry Field) for a compilation coming out in May.



You can hear a preview here or a rip here :)

Source

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Watch the Newest Sa-world Radio

To hear bits of the new song, No Appointment Romeo, check out SAWA's home page to see some of the live footage from her last one man live.

It's hard to hear some of the show due to the commentary, but the parts you can hear sound niiiice. SAWA and the new live band actually developed new arrangements for some of the songs, Stars especially sounds back to it's bouncy self.



Also SAWA's currently auctioning a set of mirror-ball themed rings to help raise money for the recent crisis in Japan. Check 'em out here.

Monday, February 28, 2011

No Appointment Romeo

Funky-san updated the setlist from the one-man a bit to match SAWA's latest blog, with the new song title. Go check out his blog for the full review. :) The new song No Appointment Romeo (Non-Appointment Romeo/ノンアポイントメントロミオ) apparently has a rock-ish sound?

01. Night Desert Original interlude
02. Night Desert
03. Discovery
04. Mysterious zone 

-MC-
05. I Can Fly
06. Samba de mar-NAKATSUKATAKESHI remix-
07. Chocolate zone~野生のSAWA~
08. Throw Him Away!

-MC-
09. 心の瞳
10. あいにいくよ

-MC-
11. No Appointment Romeo
12. Jet Coaster

-MC-
13. Blue
14. ManyColors
15. DangerZone
16. Swimming Dancing
17. Super Looper

-MC-
18. Stars

Encore
19. Green
20. My Sunny Days


Also check out SAWA's same blog entry for some rather impressive watercolor paintings..



She should for sure start including more of her painting in some of her album jackets. The landscape one are especially beautiful (to me anyway!)