Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.18

This is Tokyo's Coolest Sound's own radio show, which is featured on La Face B (Facebook page), an Internet radio based in Montréal (Québec, Canada). It brings you some favorite songs and artists that you've read about in these pages. Tune in at the times below at http://lafaceb.live. Happy listening!

"Tokyo's Coolest Sound" (vol.18) was aired at http://lafaceb.live on July 28, 2021 from 22:00 (EDT = Montréal/New York).
* Japan time: July 29, 2021 from 11:00 a.m.

This episode was not archived as-is. Listen to the Spotify playlist of most of the songs, or scroll down this page to find music videos and individual songs, and also listen to the narration.

Below is the full tracklist with liner notes, and narration parts that you can listen to.

1. Hazy Sour Cherry "Tour De Tokyo" (2019)

Hazy Sour Cherry (Instagram, Facebook, Bandcamp) is a band that was formed in 2018, and features singer Tsuzumi (also of OCHA∞ME), guitarist Jun (also of HATEMAN) and drummer Karin. The song "Tour De Tokyo" is from their 1st album of the same name, "Tour De Tokyo" (2019, Bandcamp, Spotify, , YouTube Music). The album can be found on colored LP via Bandcamp.

A 2nd album titled "Strange World" has been announced for release on CD and digitally this summer, with a vinyl edition to come later!

2. Les sœurs du bleuet "blueberry sisters song" (2021)

This is a song that appears on the compilation "explore the wonderful voices of bleu? girls compilation vol.1 composed by the Caraway" (2021, Bandcamp). It's a sort of concept album with all the songs produced by the Caraway's Osamu Shimada (SoundCloud) (also a member of Swinging Popsicle) and sung by various female singers. Les sœurs du bleuet is a duet of shiho (member of Sucrette, mini kyute) and DJ stereo, formed for the occasion.

The album was released for Record Store Day but the 10" vinyl sold out very quickly. However it's still available digitally via Bandcamp.

🔈 Listen to Narration I
Presenting: Hazy Sour Cherry, Les sœurs du bleuet, Mukaju Dan

3. Mukaju Dan "Mon chéri" (2020)
(Japanese title: 無果汁団「モン・シェリー」)

Mukaju Dan is the production unit of arranger Shocktarou and composer Ton-chan. Last year they released their first album "Madoromu" (Spotify, , YouTube Music) on which "Mon chéri" appears. Misaki is the guest singer on this album.

4. Frun Frin Friends "Vanilla" (2021)
(Japanese title: Frun Frin Friends 「バニラ」)

Frun Frin Friends is an idol duo formed of Beni Usakura (also a member of idol group APOKALIPPPS, and most often fronting toy instrument rock'n'roll band Childish Tones) and Aku Nayuta.

Formed in April 2020, the duo had been releasing singles steadily, and finally released a full-length album titled "Frun Frin Friends" (Spotify, , YouTube Music) this month.

5. xiangyu "Milano Sandwich A" (2021)
(Japanese title: xiangyu 「ミラノサンドA」　"Milano sando A")

"Milano Sandwich A" (Spotify, ) is the latest song by xiangyu (Twitter, Instagram). It takes its name from a popular menu item of the Doutor café chain. The music video below takes you to many of the Doutor shops. Despite that, it's not some official promotion trick but rather seems to be a guerilla style love letter in xiangyu's style (who previously also sang about Baskin Robbins and various other food among other daily life topics).

Also check out xiangyu's latest EP "Kiki" (2020). You can also watch on YouTube an online performance she did in February (the first 30 minutes are a mix by her sound producer Kenmochi Hidefumi).

🔈 Listen to Narration II
Presenting: Frun Frin Friends, xiangyu, DÉ DÉ MOUSE & TANUKI

6. DÉ DÉ MOUSE & TANUKI "The Night of Neon Light feat. HITOMITOI" (2021)
(Japanese title: DÉ DÉ MOUSE & TANUKI 「Neon Lightの夜 feat. 一十三十一」 "Neon Light no yoru feat. HITOMITOI")

DÉ DÉ MOUSE and UK producer TANUKI (Twitter, SoundCloud) just recently released this collaboration single which features singer hitomitoi titled "The Night of Neon Light" (Bandcamp, Spotify, , YouTube Music). The artwork is by Korean artist Billie Snippet, and the lyric video below was made by YMCK.

A 7" vinyl edition was released for Record Store Day this month, but it seems to have sold out quick (I'm still hoping to find it somewhere).

7. THE IMAGE "Love Is Blind" (2021)

THE IMAGE is a dance music band that just started this year, led by singer Nakamura Michihiro. Other musicians are Taku Tomizawa (Number the., Group Tamashii) on guitar, Ori Makoto (aka Francis, ex-The Collectors) on bass, and jazz drummer Hajime. The song "Love Is Blind" features guest singer arvin homa aya (ex-Jazztronik) who also wrote the lyrics. It's included on the band's 2nd mini-album "2" (Spotify, ) that was just released this week.

The music video below was shot at Café Bohemia in Shibuya.

🔈 Listen to Narration III
Presenting: THE IMAGE, COUNTJOKE

8. COUNTJOKE "kanpeki na asa" (2021)
(Japanese title: 冗談伯爵 (jōdan hakushaku) 「完璧な朝」)

COUNTJOKE is the unit of Naoki Maezono and Toshiya Arai. Formed in 2013, they had so far released several singles, as well as a collection of those titled "ZERO" available only digitally.

This month they finally released a first official album titled "ONE" (2021, Spotify, , YouTube Music, OTOTOY), also released on vinyl for Record Store Day (including download).