Tokyo Obscene Emotion (?)
The band I always admire has bizarre meaning behind their names .____. I want to talk about how this band has change my life in a short chronology. I remember having a conversation with a good friend of mine. She mentioned something that seems to mean to accept a certain type of music we should really be in a certain condition. I was confused by this until recently.
I think it was between 2009-2010 when my family left the country, I wasn't feeling so good and hearing happy music such as arashi, kimura kaela, superfly, basically everything I heard and liked before, was not as much pleasure as before. So I started changing what I hear. I once turned to Hata Motohiro just because his music is so down to earth and very high toned, haha.
And around 2010 I stumble upon Mouse on The keys and Toe, both instrumental jazz rock indie, which I hardly ever liked before. But their music just slowly got into me. It's something that calms me in a harsh way <--weird explanation. Very upbeat, very abstract, they just tell something about life, struggle, and adventure.
Click to viewI don't remember precisely when I really really into toe. Never really date them. But I remember there's a period when I hear I Do Still Wrong again and again (and now is still one of my fav). There are the time in the song that they shout, and i feel so moved. It just seems so natural what they are doing, especially Mino Takaaki (left) he moved me :) . After that I keep looking for good video of them and found Goodbye featuring Toki Asako. The live is just fantastic. They never try to look appealing. Even in concert, normal tshirt is what they wear. They are just so expressive. I didn't ashamed to tell people that I can cry just by singing the song.
Toe's music has taught me it's ok to be expressive and natural as it is part of what being human are and not so much bothered by people judgment. And I like being remind like that :D