Little Moments and Future Shows

Hey all~ This time the gap between music updates is much shorter! The latest Full Circle track, entitled Little Moments, is now available for listening on our MySpace page! Once again we went a slightly different direction with this song, so I hope you enjoy listening to the sounds and words that come forth in this one! The lyrics to this song are especially dear to me, and the song itself was a long time coming, so I'm excited to finally put it all out there!

In other news, the month of November is looking up in terms of O-Mocha and Full Circle performance opportunities!! There are three performances planned for this month, so I hope that those of you who are in the Tokyo area will be able to come out and hear us sing! Have a look at the details below! :D

Friday, November 5th, 2010

FLAVA ~2010 Final Special~

at 27destiny (Shibuya, Tokyo)

〒150-0044

東京都渋谷区円山町２－４ ジーカンスビル１Ｆ 

TEL 03-3496-2727

 DOORS OPEN at 11PM
2,500yen / 1 drink
With flyer, 2.000yen / NO drink
Get the web flyer here!

Live Performance by
Ayaka + Dr. PEACEMAKER featuring O-Mocha

For more details about the many performers going on stage that night, check out the official event page here! 

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

 PLANETOLOGY vol.56
@shimokitazawa CLUB ERA
〒155-0031
東京都世田谷区北沢2-34-5 プリマヴェール下北沢4F
TEL 03-5465-6568
open/start 24:00～5:00
entrance fee \1500/1D w/f \1000/1D

HIPHOP、R&B・・・and GOOD MUSIC

DJ
TAYAMA
SADOBEN
WATAKEN
CHIAKI
KAERU
CK-ONE
MISAKI


MC
PLANET GALAXY
D.I.C.E
LEFTY


SINGER
Yuki
Full Circle

Check out the mixi community here:
http://mixi.jp/view_community.pl?id=1584918

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

"HODGEPODGE（ホッジポッジ）" - Live Music & Art

1:00pm - 9:00pm

Shibuya VUENOS TOKYO & LOUNGE NEO
〒150-0043 東京都渋谷区道玄坂2-21-7
第8矢澤ビル4F
TEL 03-5458-2551

HODGEPODGE is an art and music event hosted by GuitarFish Media trying to create the bridge between Japan and the world of music. Our goal is to have an international collaboration of musicians and visual artists from all over the world in hopes of creating this international hodgepodge. All genres and art work welcome. We want to raise funds and awareness to support local artists and musicians from in and around Tokyo. We also would like to expose our audiences to different genres and interests to other than that of mainstream medias.

**Live performance of bands, singers, & DJ @ VUENOS　(B1F/1F)
**Art exhibition and movie screenings @ Lounge NEO (5F/6F)

PRICE:
ADV: 1500yen + 1 drink ticket (500yen)　
[Door: 2500yen + 1 drink ticket (500yen)]

Many different performers and artists will be at this event, including bands, emcees, singers, and DJs, so there will be lots listen to!!

Visit the website or Facebook Event page for more info!
http://www.wix.com/guitarfish/hodgepodge

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=165979356747860

CONTACT
guitarfish.media@gmail.com

イベント詳細

HODGEPODGE はGuitarFish Media 主催の音楽及びファインアートの総合エンターテインメントイベントです。世界の様々なジャンルのミュージシャンやアーティストを招き、国籍、人種、年齢、ジャンル、などといった様々な壁を超え、どなたでも気兼ねなく、気軽に楽しんで頂く事を目的としたインターナショナルな企画です。金銭面や練習場所、自分の作品を披露するのにとても肩身の狭い思いをしながら活動するミュージシャンやアーティスト。そして他国に比べ、音楽やアートに対して未だ関心が低い日本。その中心の東京で活動する無名のミュージシャンやアーティスト達の活躍の場をもっと広げたい。また、世の中の皆さんに様々なジャンルに触れてもらい、主流のメディア以外にもすばらしいアーティストや作品がある事を知って頂きたい。こういった想いからこのHODGEPODGEを開催する決断を致しました。



当イベントは、２０１０年１１月２３日（勤労感謝の日）に、渋谷のVuenos Tokyoと同ビルのLounge Neoにて行います。１３時にオープンし、１４時からパフォーマンスをスタートした後、２１時までミュージシャンやアーティスト達によるライブパフォーマンスやアートの展示を行います。VUENOS TOKYOのメインステージにてバンド、シンガー、DJなどを含めた約２０組がパフォーマンスを行います。同時に同ビルのLounge Neo をアートのエキシビジョンスペースとし、様々なスタイルを持ったアーティスト達の作品を巨大なドーム型の壁とプロジェクターを使って展示します。

★チケットは激安です！★
前売り券：１５００円＋１ドリンクチケット(500円)
通常料金：２５００円+１ドリンクチケット(500円)

詳細はHODGEPODGEのHPをご覧下さい。
http://www.wix.com/guitarfish/hodgepodge

近日アップデートがあるのでお楽しみに！


お問い合わせ
guitarfish.media@gmail.com 

iTunes Japan Debut~!

It's been a while! After another months-long hiatus from blogging, I'm glad to announce my debut on the Japanese iTunes Store~!

We were lucky enough to be asked to contribute to this compilation album, Acoustic Autumn ~ Seasoning of Songs~ , which was recorded a couple of months back. From today on, Oct 6th (Japan time), it is finally on sale on iTunes!! This album features a selection of new artists bringing a fresh voice to various Autumn-themed songs by well-known Japanese artists.


If you have access to the iTunes Japan Store, please support the first professional foray of Full Circle!! Check out Acoustic Autumn ~Seasoning of Songs~ on iTunes! Each track is ¥１５０ or you can get the entire album for only ¥６００~

Singing a cover of ORIGINAL LOVE's 「月の裏で会いましょう」 gave me my first opportunity to sing with mellow, acoustic style music, so if you check out the album and/or my contribution to it (thank you! ;D), please be gentle with me!

More new music from Full Circle will be coming at you soon~ Until next time!

Full Circle ♥ Tokyo

Wow, it's been a while! I've already been in Tokyo for over a month now (coming up on two months, actually), but this is my first blog post since arriving...! What can I say? My procrastination habits are still as present as ever.

But thankfully this doesn't extend to music! A-KICKS and I have a new Full Circle song completed~ Check out our new song Jump on the Full Circle MySpace! The song is at the bottom of the list at the moment (MySpace has some kind of bug right now, I can't change the song order!), so don't miss it!! We would love to hear some feedback for this new track, so don't be shy about commenting! ;D

Anyway, back to Tokyo! ♥ The first couple of weeks felt incredibly surreal, I think I was walking around in a starry-eyed daze. Now I think it's finally settled in that I'm here! I love this city, it's so interesting and there is so much more I want to see of it! Not to mention all the other people I still want to meet and reunite with! The 663A Tokyo (and Osaka) peeps I've connected with so far have been amazing, as always. I'm looking forward to getting some collaborations and performances going, hopefully within the next month or so!


Right now, 663A's latest party HOT JAM is going down in Toronto, and I'm sure everybody's kickin' it in UpperUpper gear!! いいな～ (I miss you guys~~!!!)

Until next time!

行ってきまーーーす！ (See you later, Toronto!)

It's 3:30am and I should be sleeping, but I'm so keyed up and excited...! In less than 24 hours from now I'll be on Japanese soil for the first time!! This past Sunday was my farewell (and birthday!) get together, so I've said goodbye to many of my friends in Toronto... and now I'm ready to say hello to many others in Tokyo!

Thanks to everyone who has shared their vibe with me, inspired me, taught me, and motivated me over the past year, two years, and even longer! I feel so happy that I can move forward with great people behind me and around me. Love you guys!!♥

Now's the time for Full Circle and 663A in Japan!!!

Updates!!

It's been a while since I blogged, so here are some updates! Most obvious, of course, are the changes I've made to the layout here. I'm also in the midst of revamping the look of mine and A-KICKS' MySpace pages, so look out for that to be finished soon! As of yesterday, a combined Full Circle MySpace page is now available, as well as a Fan Page on Facebook!! If you have an account with Facebook, then please head on over and become a fan! ;D

As far as music goes, new Full Circle tracks are underway, and one in particular is especially close to completion. Now that it's April, and I have just over a month until I head over to Japan, I'm starting to get really hyped about making more progress in music! We have lots of songs that are partially done at this point, so I'm betting that once I'm in Tokyo with A-KICKS we will motivate each other to get things done.

In the meantime, keep your eyes peeled for more updates here (I swear I'll actually post something), and head on over to the new 663A Blog to see what our fellow crew members are getting up to~!

Edit: Two recent collaboration tracks with DJ and emcee Dr. Peacemaker have been added to MySpace! (Nevermind that they've been finished for moooonths and were already available on his MySpace...! hahaha)

Slackerific

I can't believe how long it took me to post another entry here... A lot has happened since the last entry! (But I'll try to cut the rambling short. :P)

First off, there are a handful of new Full Circle songs in the works! I had some hardcore recording sessions back in May, and A-KICKS has been busy mastering those tracks since then... so definitely look out for some new additions on MySpace in the next couple of weeks! Sadly, my song-writing has slowed down in the past while, but I'm working on getting my productivity back up to speed. I'm also gonna get my ass in gear and finish an album design for the first Full Circle mini-album! More information on that later~

663A has had three music performances since the last entry as well (March, May, and June--I'm such a slacker, I didn't even advertise them here!!), and the next Music Neighbour event is coming up in about a month. The format of the upcoming show will be slightly different to that of the previous parties, but I think it will work out well! ....As long as I don't have to dance. Ahem. This time I'll actually post about the event beforehand. Really.

My going-to-Japan-as-soon-as-possible plan has been foiled yet agaaaaain~!! But the good news is that I've been saving up money for the past couple of months (yes, I have a job finally! ♥) and I'll have my degree by the time I've saved up enough to leave Toronto. Which means... I'll be completing my final year at university starting this Fall. I'm not crazy about returning to school... but completing my degree now will make things a lot easier for me in the long run. I've gotta bite the bullet!

Anyway, this is a lot of text. Clearly, I don't know how not to ramble... I'll post another entry again soon! In the meantime, feel free to overplay this song, as I have been doing...:





Black & Gold - Sam Sparro

Two Thousand And Nine~~!!

So it's the New Year!! For some reason it feels slightly surreal that it's 2009 already... maybe because this is the last year of the "two thousand"s. Next year we'll be saying "twenty-ten", and all this "two thousand" business will be over... awww. ;P

Anyway, my New Years' was uneventful, unless you count being sick an adventure. And I realized after more than two days into the new year that I completely forgot about making a resolution, too...! But now I figure that since the resolution I made last year was decided in May... I may as well make this year's resolution in May too! (This might just be an excuse... but I can live with that.)

Unfortunately 2009 has started with a set-back for me: I no longer have any idea when I can go to Japan. At first the hold up was all document-related but now, especially with the current CAD to JPY exchange rate, it's clear that money is the main issue. So, I've got to put more effort into building up my savings!!

On that note, dear reader, please feel free to make a donation to my Mochatastic Money Basket! Be as generous as you like; I promise I won't refuse your money. >:D hahaha

Enjoy 2009, everyone! There'll be some new music updates before too long, I swear~ ;D

Change in Plans...

It's probably nothing new to hear that I'm planning to live in Japan for at least a year. This past spring I applied for one of the documents I'll need in order to get my passport and visa and originally I estimated that I would only have to wait until August to leave Toronto. But then August became September... and now it looks like it could be October, or November... maybe even after that! It sucks, because there are people in Japan who I want to see a.s.a.p. but it looks like the soonest possible time isn't really soon at all...!

But there's good news! Recently (today) I aced a job interview! Money is definitely something I need in order to reach my goal, so this is great. Better yet, I start on Monday! So, at least while I'm waiting to get all my documents processed I can make a fair amount of money. I'm sure I'll need it, since I'll have to live off of my savings for a while after moving to Japan--I don't expect to get hired there right away, even though I'll probably be looking for jobs as soon as I arrive.

The only thing is that I'll be working 6 days a week and finishing at 9pm every weekday night... so I'll have less time to make music while I'm working... -_-;;

But I'm aiming to keep my motivation and creativity up, and continue making new music~~! I'm extremely serious about it and I really want to be successful so there's no time to waste! I'll definitely be working on music during every spare moment. Wish me luck! :D

P.S.: We still don't have a name for our duo! Noooooooo~~!!!

AUGUST EDIT: I ditched that job already. Haha, it's a long story...