Today I got really sad news. My favorite band announced its death. How would you feel if a friend you like very much said to you he would die in less than two months? Yeah, you must think I am overreacting, and I would think that too if it was not me on this spot right now. It was a surprise to me how sad I felt when receiving this news, but now I realize that actually the unit of those five people, who lives in a 12 hour time fuse distance of me, is my friend. A very close friend, who accompanies my daily journey, with all its good and band emotions, since January 2006.
That was when the album Adult was released. A friend sent me the album in a zip file and asked me if I knew this band. Never heard of it. Then I pushed play, the song Himitsu started, my mind did blow with that fusion of cabaret-styled jazz and cool funky and rocky instrumental elements. And those vocals… those vocals…
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