Entries Tagged as 'Music'

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Album spotlight: Turbulence by Monoral

The rock duo Monoral, consisting of Anis Shimada and Ali Morizumi, have two EPs and two full-length albums under their belts but I first heard their music, as quite a few others no doubt did, through their single Kiri, the song used in the opening theme to Ergo Proxy. This is featured on the second [...]

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Just Can’t Get It Out Of My Head: those catchy – or incredibly irritating – anime theme songs

(Inspired by Lewis’s earlier article – and the fact that I just can’t get the first ending song from ‘Kyo Kara Maoh!’ out of my head right now!)
In France they call them ‘génériques’. Here we tend to call them the ‘opening’ and ‘closing’ song. Love them or hate them, they’ve been an integral part of [...]

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Music and Translation - A dying art?

Since this is my first post on this brand spanking new blog I decided to cover an issue that I had completely forgotten about until a few days ago. As I was roaring along the road running over various species of wildlife and pensioners one of Gwen Stefani’s records came on the radio. As you [...]