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Happy New Year! Earlier I promised to translate a blog entry, written by the DeliciouSweets‘ Chaamar, regarding Le Sex l’Ove. Here it is:

DeliciouSweets have made a really interesting musical friend in Canada. His name is Sampler.

I heard from him a while back in an email, in which he wrote, in Japanese, “I heard DeliciouSweets on a CD and have really taken a liking to it! Please check out our CD!” Since then we’ve been talking and sending greetings by email.

Sampler’s Japanese is really good, and at first I thought he might be a Japanese living in Canada. It really surprised me that he was Canadian! His Japanese is probably better than mine. He seems to really like Japan, and is studying Japanese.

Well! He put our Coquette Gaho [picture book and CD release] in a Canadian store, and it sold out! I was really happy!

Sampler’s mischievous and strange Japanophile band, DUPOBS, has just put out a new album! The CD arrived just last month, and is titled Le Sex l’Ove.

The headline on the press-release is “art without intelligence for idiots without art” — written in perfect Japanese! It continues: “As of late, DUPOBS is the band most ignored by music reviewers around the world.” Ha! But what, really, is this unheard-of, revoltingly good music? What.

Just as the last DUPOBS album, Le Sex l’Ove also contains music of oppressive non-feeling. However, although it may be oppressive, let’s just say this is an album of abnormal ballads floating in the atmosphere of life’s sadness. Layered with the timbre of accordion, sutra-like chanting, and broken guitar, the expression is unique, and I can’t grasp a guiding principal behind it. I truly respect this! They have achieved a really great sound, using instruments ‘borrowed’ from a band on a studio break. (Or so the press-release states.)

And there’s also a kabuki-influenced track on this album. If you hear it, someone’s really got kabuki’s… soul! Kabuki seen from abroad is just the same! This is really funny!

If you’re interested, you can download the tracks from iTunes, or check out the DUPOBS website.

Chaamar