"Koroshiya Kiki Ippatsu" PV out now

Enjoy it.

Ringo collaborates with Soil & "Pimp" Sessions once again

There's a new Ringo song around the corner, and this time it's a collaboration with Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, a band she has worked with a lot of times before. It's called "殺し屋危機一髪" (Koroshiya Kiki Ippatsu), meaning something like "The Assassin's Close Call" but officially translated as "The Assassin's Assassin".

The lyrics were written by Ringo herself and the song was composed by her and Tabu Zombie, the band's trumpeter and one of the founding members. The arranger is Saitou Neko, another regular, and the song will feature a small orchestra.

There is a special teaser clip on YouTube and NicoNicoDouga, and a full PV will be released on June 7. The song in the teaser clip is called "ピンプパンサー" (Pimp Panther), which will either be a B-Side of the single or another track of a future album, if I may take any guess.

If the title of the song and video can tell us anything is that this is probably going to be reminiscent of spy action songs like "Mayonaka wa Junketsu", "Mittei Monogatari" or maybe "Karisome Otome".  The video is also very reminiscent of "Konya wa Karasawagi".

But that's just taking guesses, we'll have to check it out on June 7.

This collaboration represents the 2nd stage of Soil & "Pimp" Sessions 10th Anniversary, following April's release of "Jazzy Conversation", a collaboration with Rhymester, one of Mummy-D's hip-hop bands. You should remember Mummy-D from all the collaborations with Ringo, as well.

These anniversary releases point out to an eventual Soil's album this year, with "殺し屋危機一髪" included.

The following image, posted on kronekodow as a "mysterious photograph", looks pretty much like what the single cover will look like, without any words on it.

"Jazzy Conversation" was a digital-only release, but this time it will be a retail release also.

Title: 殺し屋危機一髪 (Koroshiya Kiki Ippatsu)

Release Date: 26/06/2013
Price: 1200 Yen
VICL-36788

Lastly, here's a bunch of screens from the teaser clip.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shiina Ringo - MY FOOLISH HEART PV + News

Okay, this was unexpected. So it seems SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS released a PV for the Ringo featuring song, "MY FOOLISH HEART ～crazy on earth～×椎名林檎". That said, there's no Ringo or apples on the video, at all. Leave a comment if you can see any reference to our lady please!



Thanks to my friend Orenji for the heads-up!

Update: According to the SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS website, there's a new arrangement of "MY FOOLISH HEART" called "MY FOOLISH HEART～Crazy in Shibuya～" which was released today on the japanese iTunes store and also as Chaku-Uta (ringtone).



If you have access to it, don't waste time and go buy the song, because it's a limited time release!

Shiina Ringo - MY FOOLISH HEART

I didn't use the full name of the song because I didn't want to have a huge post title. Anyway, here's a YouTube video of the song "MY FOOLISH HEART ～crazy on earth～×椎名林檎", from SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS latest album, 6.

Video was removed from YouTube.

I think the the second half gets better. It doesn't feel like a Ringo song, but it sounds pretty nice. I like SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS anyway.

Shiina Ringo - Soil&"Pimp"Sessions Collaboration

I completely forgot about this piece of news. Well, it has been annouced that Ringo would be featured in Soil&"Pimp"Sessions new album, called 6, but only recently have more details been released. And the album is hitting stores pretty soon! Anyway, here's the tracklist:

Album: 6
Band: Soil&"Pimp"Sessions
Release Date: 2009.09.16
1 - SEVEN (Intro Sound Collage by DJKENTARO)
2 - KEIZOKU
3 - PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG
4 - MY FOOLISH HEART ～crazy in mind～
5 - DOUBLE TROUBLE
6 - POP KORN
7 - QUARTZ AND CHRONOMETER
8 - PARAISO
9 - MY FOOLISH HEART ～crazy on earth～×椎名林檎
10 - MIRROR BOY
11 - “STOLEN MOMENTS” featuring Jamie Cullum
12 - AFTER THE PARTY
13 - 殺戮と平和 (Satsuriku to Heiwa)

So the song is called "MY FOOLISH HEART ～crazy on earth～×椎名林檎" and the lyrics will be in english. There is some kind of connection between track 4 and 9, something like one is instrumental only and the other has vocals... I guess we'll have to wait for September 16 to be sure of this.

PS - Apparently Blogger is not OK with using the sign "&" on tags, so I'll have to write "Soil and Pimp Sessions". Sorry!

UPDATE!
I should have done this before making this post, but well... nothing I can do now except update. With exciting additions!
So it seems the Ringo collaboration has been playing in some japanese radios for at least 2 weeks, so the full version must be around somewhere. For now, here's what I found: 30 seconds previews for track 4 and 9.

4 - MY FOOLISH HEART ～crazy in mind～ (preview)
9 - MY FOOLISH HEART ～crazy on earth～×椎名林檎 (preview)
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This confirms that track 4 is in fact a more up-tempo arrangement of track 9. And I got to admit, altough kind of perplexed at first, I'm loving Ringo's participation. Completely different from anything we heard before, right? I just think her voice is a bit too low, but maybe it's just in the preview.
Also, here's the link to the site where you can hear the previews for every track in the album. Let's hope I don't get in any trouble for linking their site...

PS - The tags of the WMAs are unchanged, except that I added the album name and track numbers. I'm saying this because they are different from the ones found on Soil&"Pimp"Session's official website, which I have used in this posts. Those are the correct tags.

Shiina Ringo - 2006.12.08 - Music Station

In this Music Station episode, back in 2006, Shiina Ringo performed the song "Karisome Otome (DEATH JAZZ ver.)" with Soil&"Pimp"Sessions, that is now included in her latest album Sanmon Gossip.

01 - カリソメ乙女 (DEATH JAZZ ver.) (Karisome Otome)
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