I discovered this amazing band through the Vans Warp Tour cd and have been in love with them ever since. Hope you are all doing well and will continue to make great music for many more years. 💖
this is gonna be *very* quick-and-dirty so i'll probably skip some murmurs and gloss over some lines but i'll try to give you a general impression with some timestamps to keep track - also i'm sorry if i accidentally write "paypal" instead of "penpal" a couple times hayami: 20th anniversary special event - looking back through our releases add: including singles lol hayami: we wanna look back for our 20th anniversary with all the music we've recorded in that time we'll probably do about 7 of these, today we're gonna go through our first few records - penpal, ore and wao!! also there are 3 singles leading up to wao!! these ones [icas gestures] 0:37 so penpal icas: the legendary- this one's a replica! sorry we couldn't find a real copy! none of us own a copy [sad music] 0:58 hayami: icas got this [the cover art i guess] off the internet released june 2005, self-recorded debut - songs are hana no ska dance, almond and pinocchio icas: this was our very first recording, first and second year of high school hayami: we spent our new years' money to record it! add: your new years' money! icas: so we sold this at a bunch of live houses and a sony rep happened to pick it up add: so if it wasn't for this our lives would be pretty different hayami/caption: band formed in 2003, middle school 3rd year and wrote our first original song hana no ska dance icas: i/we wrote it on a j-phone [early 2000s japanese-market camera phone] with a thing that let you compose music using ringtone sounds tae: yeah you could only play 3 notes at once icas: maybe 5 at a stretch? add: not with something like Logic [music production software] icas: lol absolutely not - so it had that sound ti-ti-ti-ti 2:01 we got together at the youth centre tae: we were in different classes but during class i'd get messages from icas... it was like "she's writing songs during class??" icas: and tae would be writing lyrics during class caption: BOTH OF YOU, STUDY icas: she was writing, like a diary or poetry type stuff, not to make into songs, but then i was like maybe try making these into songs hayami: so you "asked" her to write lyrics icas: maybe she was writing them on her own already tae: YES! [i.e. middle school tae being like I'LL DO IT!] caption: SONGWRITING TEAM FORMED icas: i thought i remembered writing songs and then needing lyrics tae: well this is 20 years ago... icas: they're good lyrics! hana no ska dance.. [murmurs of agreement] you get the sense of her as an artist, up to that point she was "tae-chan from the same year" hayami (quoting the lyrics): she wrote [you have your] "own way of doing things" as "own way of dancing" it's got bump of chicken vibes caption: youth at that time=bump 3:16 hayami: we added the horns on top caption: melody->lyrics->horn arrangement hayami: i remember crying with happiness listening to the recording on the way home icas: you've been a crybaby since then! tae: it's a strong memory cause it was the first song we wrote in our lives hayami: in 2004 we wrote a bunch of songs - shonen s, almond, knife to fork, pinocchio tae: as we were moving up to high school, we started arranging on PC with a midi program... seeing [hums melody from pinocchio 4:02] on a PC screen [caption: GROWTH] though it wasn't as impressive as something like logic like we have now icas: we were just writing in midi the harmonies in pinocchio were pretty complex because we made it in midi tae: yeah without thinking about it from a singing perspective... tomi [joint vocals with icas at the time] looked at it and was like "...yeah ok, i'll do it" hayami: she sung it while making this face 4:33 add: i see... i always kinda wondered why you did such an awkward thing there lol icas: yeah it's like a vocaloid thing [i.e. not written for a human singer]... anyway we never expected that song would become a naruto tie-in [naruto shippuden ending song iirc]... it was on penpal and then after the sony rep bought it that idea came up hayami: so we released our first full album wao!! in 2007, mostly songs we already had icas: the arrangements pretty much didn't change [i don't quite get what add says here but basically she comments on the quick progression from "let's start a band" to "oh yeah this is gonna be an anime tie-in"] tae: yeah it was such a wild thing we were more like "...huh" than "YAY" 5:32 iirc we made 100 copies of this [penpal] icas: we burned the cd-r ourselves tae: icas said this was a replica but we pretty much made it the same way at the time printing and folding the booklet ourselves lol icas: my dad had a thing to print art onto the disc add: back then you were a badass if you had something like that lol icas: it was 500 yen right? hayami: 300 yen icas: 100 yen per song lol tae: it sold out pretty fast i think, that sony rep bought a bunch i think... i mean you could buy 10 copies for 3000 yen (~30 bucks, possibly a bit different 20 years ago) there's probably around 200 copies in the world right? add: those 200 people please get in touch [caption: can we have a copy please] icas: there's one other album from that time, punch party, a collab album with a band from wakayama called panic rocket - we put chuck, wasuremono and shonen s on that one, we released it a little before our first full album tae: summer break, first year of high school hayami: after starting high school we started performing in live houses around 2-5 shows a month icas: oh we were doing a lot! tae: about the same as now hayami: we did some shows in wakayama where we had to take the train, come back with the first train in the morning and go straight to school tae: [i think talking about penpal?] we released this through tick-tuck [music venue in sakai where oreska are from] add: so it wasn't distributed tae: no it wasn't... maybe if we get in touch with them they'll have a copy lol 7:57 topic: debut album - ore, wao!! icas: the arrangements were the same on punch party, it was more like a rerecording hayami: we got to use expensive guitar amps that time around, like something-hundred-thousand, something-million [yen] - on almond it was a matchless? icas: yeah a matchless, i got to use a nice amp! caption: vintage matchless amps go for like a million yen [so in the range of 10k in USD] icas: we took this cover photo [for ore] by the yamato river [separates sakai and osaka cities] hayami: we write the "ore" character stroke by stroke ourselves icas: we wrote it in volks [chain steakhouse] tae: that was definitely not allowed, getting out ink and stuff and writing it in a restaurant, maybe we got away with it because it was sakai caption: this is not allowed even in sakai tae: getting out ink in a steakhouse... caption: good children, don't try this at home add: that might be the only place in the world that's allowed icas: we were such a nuisance lol band: thank you [for letting us get away with that] 9:00 tae: mitch ikeda took that photo for the ore cover, we're still friends hayami: i/we recently visited a grave with mitch icas: kondi-san, the producer['s grave], yeah hayami: when the sony rep played penpal and showed our live video at a label meeting and asked if anyone [from the sub-label reps present] wanted to debut us, kondi-san said "i want to be in charge of this", he thought someone else would take us, but it was just him caption/image: all the other labels "go for it, go for it" 9:35 icas: he had connections in america who he sent our cd to... tae: rico, this... icas: japa-rico caption: released 2006, japa-rico, a session album featuring legendary trombonist rico rodriguez and japanese reggae/ska bands who were influenced by him [general murmurs about how cool it was] icas: we played a showcase live for music industry people, kondi-san invited rico add: initiative! icas: we'd barely collaborated with any other musicians and then here was this legend lol add: sketchy! tae: during the show, when it got to that song [presumably monkey man, which they played with rico on that album] rico came on stage like "nice to meet you!" during the show!! add: lol that's crazy icas: we hadn't met him at all up to that point! hayami: i had no idea what was going on, i was just like "it's rico-san!" caption: announcing a legend in a deadpan hayami and tae: next time is around the time we went overseas, right? till about when we were 20
@@Sammie_Sorrelly Holy crap, thanks so much for this. Have always loved this band but have had that language barrier from knowing more. I don't expect you to do the rest of these videos that'll come out since it probably takes a while. Thanks in advance if you do though.
DE ARGENTINA 😍😜👍👍👍👍👍
ずっと聴いてきたファンからしたらめちゃくちゃおもしろい、興味深いお話。ナイスな企画👍
貴重なお話をありがとうございます。９か月前にオレスカバンドの存在を知り、一気に大好きになってCDを全部買いました！でも全部でなかったことが今わかりました。一生応援させていただきます！素敵な音楽、本当にありがとうございます！！
You guys rock and discovering your music during the pandemic kept me going during those tough times. Hopefully someday I'll see you guys live.
貴重な話に貴重な写真✨
めっちゃ懐かしい〜
嬉しいです☺️☺️
Looks cool, I wonder what happens in this video
I discovered this amazing band through the Vans Warp Tour cd and have been in love with them ever since. Hope you are all doing well and will continue to make great music for many more years. 💖
NARUTOで聞いてた頃は小さくて誰の曲かってことまで意識してなかったけど、大学生になってスカジャンルに出会い、オレスカのコピーバンドしてました！！
アーモンド、花のスカダンス、ピノキオ とか初期から名曲揃っててすごい😮
チャック、忘れ物とかも最高！
Love you girls! Greetins from Brazil.
i don't know what you are saying, but i love your music
初期の作品から完成度の高い演奏、今聴いても皆の演奏がレベル高いんだよなぁ🙌
オレスカバンドを知るきっかけが「めざましテレビ」のコーナーで「若い女の子達が海外で周っててスゴいな」と思ったもんでした。WarpedTourの最中にテレビのコーナーに出るようになった流れとか聞いてみたい。
アメリカにいる間も、日本との繋がりが途切れない発信ができるようにレーベルが頑張ってくれました💪
Oh man, I'd kill for a translation of these
this is gonna be *very* quick-and-dirty so i'll probably skip some murmurs and gloss over some lines but i'll try to give you a general impression with some timestamps to keep track - also i'm sorry if i accidentally write "paypal" instead of "penpal" a couple times
hayami: 20th anniversary special event - looking back through our releases
add: including singles lol
hayami: we wanna look back for our 20th anniversary with all the music we've recorded in that time
we'll probably do about 7 of these, today we're gonna go through our first few records - penpal, ore and wao!!
also there are 3 singles leading up to wao!!
these ones [icas gestures] 0:37
so penpal
icas: the legendary- this one's a replica! sorry we couldn't find a real copy! none of us own a copy [sad music] 0:58
hayami: icas got this [the cover art i guess] off the internet
released june 2005, self-recorded debut - songs are hana no ska dance, almond and pinocchio
icas: this was our very first recording, first and second year of high school
hayami: we spent our new years' money to record it!
add: your new years' money!
icas: so we sold this at a bunch of live houses and a sony rep happened to pick it up
add: so if it wasn't for this our lives would be pretty different
hayami/caption: band formed in 2003, middle school 3rd year and wrote our first original song hana no ska dance
icas: i/we wrote it on a j-phone [early 2000s japanese-market camera phone] with a thing that let you compose music using ringtone sounds
tae: yeah you could only play 3 notes at once
icas: maybe 5 at a stretch?
add: not with something like Logic [music production software]
icas: lol absolutely not - so it had that sound ti-ti-ti-ti 2:01 we got together at the youth centre
tae: we were in different classes but during class i'd get messages from icas... it was like "she's writing songs during class??"
icas: and tae would be writing lyrics during class
caption: BOTH OF YOU, STUDY
icas: she was writing, like a diary or poetry type stuff, not to make into songs, but then i was like maybe try making these into songs
hayami: so you "asked" her to write lyrics
icas: maybe she was writing them on her own already
tae: YES! [i.e. middle school tae being like I'LL DO IT!]
caption: SONGWRITING TEAM FORMED
icas: i thought i remembered writing songs and then needing lyrics
tae: well this is 20 years ago...
icas: they're good lyrics! hana no ska dance.. [murmurs of agreement] you get the sense of her as an artist, up to that point she was "tae-chan from the same year"
hayami (quoting the lyrics): she wrote [you have your] "own way of doing things" as "own way of dancing" it's got bump of chicken vibes
caption: youth at that time=bump 3:16
hayami: we added the horns on top
caption: melody->lyrics->horn arrangement
hayami: i remember crying with happiness listening to the recording on the way home
icas: you've been a crybaby since then!
tae: it's a strong memory cause it was the first song we wrote in our lives
hayami: in 2004 we wrote a bunch of songs - shonen s, almond, knife to fork, pinocchio
tae: as we were moving up to high school, we started arranging on PC with a midi program... seeing [hums melody from pinocchio 4:02] on a PC screen
[caption: GROWTH]
though it wasn't as impressive as something like logic like we have now
icas: we were just writing in midi
the harmonies in pinocchio were pretty complex because we made it in midi
tae: yeah without thinking about it from a singing perspective... tomi [joint vocals with icas at the time] looked at it and was like "...yeah ok, i'll do it"
hayami: she sung it while making this face 4:33
add: i see... i always kinda wondered why you did such an awkward thing there lol
icas: yeah it's like a vocaloid thing [i.e. not written for a human singer]... anyway we never expected that song would become a naruto tie-in [naruto shippuden ending song iirc]... it was on penpal and then after the sony rep bought it that idea came up
hayami: so we released our first full album wao!! in 2007, mostly songs we already had
icas: the arrangements pretty much didn't change
[i don't quite get what add says here but basically she comments on the quick progression from "let's start a band" to "oh yeah this is gonna be an anime tie-in"]
tae: yeah it was such a wild thing we were more like "...huh" than "YAY" 5:32
iirc we made 100 copies of this [penpal]
icas: we burned the cd-r ourselves
tae: icas said this was a replica but we pretty much made it the same way at the time printing and folding the booklet ourselves lol
icas: my dad had a thing to print art onto the disc
add: back then you were a badass if you had something like that lol
icas: it was 500 yen right?
hayami: 300 yen
icas: 100 yen per song lol
tae: it sold out pretty fast i think, that sony rep bought a bunch i think... i mean you could buy 10 copies for 3000 yen (~30 bucks, possibly a bit different 20 years ago)
there's probably around 200 copies in the world right?
add: those 200 people please get in touch [caption: can we have a copy please]
icas: there's one other album from that time, punch party, a collab album with a band from wakayama called panic rocket - we put chuck, wasuremono and shonen s on that one, we released it a little before our first full album
tae: summer break, first year of high school
hayami: after starting high school we started performing in live houses around 2-5 shows a month
icas: oh we were doing a lot!
tae: about the same as now
hayami: we did some shows in wakayama where we had to take the train, come back with the first train in the morning and go straight to school
tae: [i think talking about penpal?] we released this through tick-tuck [music venue in sakai where oreska are from]
add: so it wasn't distributed
tae: no it wasn't... maybe if we get in touch with them they'll have a copy lol
7:57 topic: debut album - ore, wao!!
icas: the arrangements were the same on punch party, it was more like a rerecording
hayami: we got to use expensive guitar amps that time around, like something-hundred-thousand, something-million [yen] - on almond it was a matchless?
icas: yeah a matchless, i got to use a nice amp!
caption: vintage matchless amps go for like a million yen [so in the range of 10k in USD]
icas: we took this cover photo [for ore] by the yamato river [separates sakai and osaka cities]
hayami: we write the "ore" character stroke by stroke ourselves
icas: we wrote it in volks [chain steakhouse]
tae: that was definitely not allowed, getting out ink and stuff and writing it in a restaurant, maybe we got away with it because it was sakai
caption: this is not allowed even in sakai
tae: getting out ink in a steakhouse...
caption: good children, don't try this at home
add: that might be the only place in the world that's allowed
icas: we were such a nuisance lol
band: thank you [for letting us get away with that] 9:00
tae: mitch ikeda took that photo for the ore cover, we're still friends
hayami: i/we recently visited a grave with mitch
icas: kondi-san, the producer['s grave], yeah
hayami: when the sony rep played penpal and showed our live video at a label meeting and asked if anyone [from the sub-label reps present] wanted to debut us, kondi-san said "i want to be in charge of this", he thought someone else would take us, but it was just him
caption/image: all the other labels "go for it, go for it" 9:35
icas: he had connections in america who he sent our cd to...
tae: rico, this...
icas: japa-rico
caption: released 2006, japa-rico, a session album featuring legendary trombonist rico rodriguez and japanese reggae/ska bands who were influenced by him
[general murmurs about how cool it was]
icas: we played a showcase live for music industry people, kondi-san invited rico
add: initiative!
icas: we'd barely collaborated with any other musicians and then here was this legend lol
add: sketchy!
tae: during the show, when it got to that song [presumably monkey man, which they played with rico on that album] rico came on stage like "nice to meet you!"
during the show!!
add: lol that's crazy
icas: we hadn't met him at all up to that point!
hayami: i had no idea what was going on, i was just like "it's rico-san!"
caption: announcing a legend in a deadpan
hayami and tae: next time is around the time we went overseas, right? till about when we were 20
@@Sammie_Sorrelly Thank you so much! you rock.
@@Sammie_Sorrelly Holy crap, thanks so much for this. Have always loved this band but have had that language barrier from knowing more. I don't expect you to do the rest of these videos that'll come out since it probably takes a while. Thanks in advance if you do though.
Thank you so much sammie!!!
みんなでCDを自主制作してた話好き❤
1枚300円で売ってたのは衝撃的ですね😮
一曲100円…
着メロ価格ですね😇😇😇
音源の振り返りというか、時代の振り返りでしたねｗ
Been listening since 2006 👍🏻
めちゃくちゃ神回！
オタにはたまりませんでした。
ゲストに元メンバーきてほしいなー
個人的には洋画(ロックなんちゃら)の音源とか話も聴けたらうれしいです。
また楽しみにしてます
ロックなんちゃらの音源、実はこのライブで演奏してます！
2014年The Roxy theatre👇
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めっちゃ面白かった！！ありがとうございます！
初期の話いつも気になるからありがたい^^
聞きたいことと言えばいつも知りたいのは、初期の初期のバンド名は本当にアレでしたか？あのめっちゃ長いやつｗ
本当です！学生の悪ノリですね😂
Sending love from USA
Bicicleta