World's End Girlfriend is a Japanese composer whose work blends complex sou… Read Full Bio ↴World's End Girlfriend is a Japanese composer whose work blends complex sound structures with beautiful melodies, reaching from electronic glitch to jazz-infused rock to modern classical. Captivating, enthralling and like nothing you’ve heard before, WEG makes for a surprising yet central addition to London contemporary music label Erased Tapes.
His brand new album ‘SEVEN IDIOTS’ will finally be released outside of Japan this April. Shifting seamlessly from catchy pop hooks to elaborate orchestrations and brutal IDM drones, it's an irregular pop album – filled with twists and turns that will have you reaching for the repeat button. At first recorded with vocals, he took the unusual composing method of building up the songs before erasing all of their vocal parts. By dismantling and re-constructing each track, WEG has produced a genre-defying album that truly transcends categorisation.
World's End Girlfriend hails from Nagasaki Kyushu, Japan and currently resides in Tokyo. Fascinated by his father's classical music collection, he began his foray into sound at the tender age of 10, creating his early compositions on keyboard, guitar, tape recorders and computers. To date he has composed more than 600 songs, for the most part unreleased testaments of his early experimentations.
WEG first came on Europe’s radar in 2002, invited to perform at Barcelona’s renowned Sonar Festival. On the back of the collaborative album ’Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain’ with Japanese post-rock band Mono, he embarked on extensive tours in Europe and North America in 2005, returning for an appearance at ATP Festival in 2008. Recently performing as a seven-piece ensemble, WEG's ostentious live show is currently selling out 800 capacity venues in Asia. Filmmakers seem smitten too, with the Go Shibata directed movie ‘Late Bloomer’ (2004) and the internationally renowned ‘Air Doll’ (2009) by award-winning director Hirokazu Koreeda both featuring soundtracks created by World’s End Girlfriend.
The music video for ‘Les Enfants du Paradis’, taken from ‘SEVEN IDIOTS', has already received over 90.000 views on YouTube. Directed by Yohei Saito, this beguiling visual represents the high level of interest given to WEG's music, not widely available outside of Asia – until now.
‘The one album that would turn the entire music world on its head’ (8.5/10) #6 Top 100 Releases – The Silent Ballet (US)
‘There are few artists who can make a human being as overjoyed, ardent, or terrified as Katsuhiko Maeda through the sheer art of music. …there is no other conscientious artist in activity that crafts music in the same distinctive style as World’s End Girlfriend’ (8/10) – PopMatters (US)
’A defining statement and a full-length that has more than realised his potential to be one of the most unique and vital solo artists in modern music‘ (9/10) – Contact Music (UK)
‘World’s End Girlfriend sign to the label renowned for its recognition of innovative acts... and promises to blend sideways pop with strange and addictive hooks' – Bearded Magazine (UK)
His brand new album ‘SEVEN IDIOTS’ will finally be released outside of Japan this April. Shifting seamlessly from catchy pop hooks to elaborate orchestrations and brutal IDM drones, it's an irregular pop album – filled with twists and turns that will have you reaching for the repeat button. At first recorded with vocals, he took the unusual composing method of building up the songs before erasing all of their vocal parts. By dismantling and re-constructing each track, WEG has produced a genre-defying album that truly transcends categorisation.
World's End Girlfriend hails from Nagasaki Kyushu, Japan and currently resides in Tokyo. Fascinated by his father's classical music collection, he began his foray into sound at the tender age of 10, creating his early compositions on keyboard, guitar, tape recorders and computers. To date he has composed more than 600 songs, for the most part unreleased testaments of his early experimentations.
WEG first came on Europe’s radar in 2002, invited to perform at Barcelona’s renowned Sonar Festival. On the back of the collaborative album ’Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain’ with Japanese post-rock band Mono, he embarked on extensive tours in Europe and North America in 2005, returning for an appearance at ATP Festival in 2008. Recently performing as a seven-piece ensemble, WEG's ostentious live show is currently selling out 800 capacity venues in Asia. Filmmakers seem smitten too, with the Go Shibata directed movie ‘Late Bloomer’ (2004) and the internationally renowned ‘Air Doll’ (2009) by award-winning director Hirokazu Koreeda both featuring soundtracks created by World’s End Girlfriend.
The music video for ‘Les Enfants du Paradis’, taken from ‘SEVEN IDIOTS', has already received over 90.000 views on YouTube. Directed by Yohei Saito, this beguiling visual represents the high level of interest given to WEG's music, not widely available outside of Asia – until now.
‘The one album that would turn the entire music world on its head’ (8.5/10) #6 Top 100 Releases – The Silent Ballet (US)
‘There are few artists who can make a human being as overjoyed, ardent, or terrified as Katsuhiko Maeda through the sheer art of music. …there is no other conscientious artist in activity that crafts music in the same distinctive style as World’s End Girlfriend’ (8/10) – PopMatters (US)
’A defining statement and a full-length that has more than realised his potential to be one of the most unique and vital solo artists in modern music‘ (9/10) – Contact Music (UK)
‘World’s End Girlfriend sign to the label renowned for its recognition of innovative acts... and promises to blend sideways pop with strange and addictive hooks' – Bearded Magazine (UK)
頑是ない歌
World's End Girlfriend Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by World's End Girlfriend:
All Imperfect Love Song When you open the window, a side of the silver…
Call Past Rain Call Past Rain 2:45 遠い記憶 To ii kioku A distant memor…
Fifteen White Nantonaku dake ja iki te ike nai Datte mō wakaremichi darake…
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@whitefelp
"An Innocent Song”
Original by Nakahara Chuuya (Published posthumously, 1938)
Looking back, I’ve come a long way
Since that winter evening, when I was twelve
Echoing across the harbour’s sky
The steam of the whistle; whither is it now
The moon was nestled between the clouds
And when I heard that steam whistle blow
I flinched, gripped hard by a sudden fear
The moon, then, was in the skies
How many years have passed since then
The steam of the whistle which I’d blankly follow
With my gaze, and be fraught with sorrow
The boy I had been; whither is he now
Now I am with wife and child
Looking back, I’ve come a long way
Though still for a time into the future
I daresay I shall live on some more
I daresay I shall live on some more
But while the days and nights of the distant past
Seem so sweet and familiar
and for which I long
My confidence, before them, withers and dies
Alas, as long as I am alive
My nature bids I at the very least try
With that thought I am filled,
despite myself
By a sense of pathetic pitifulness
I’ve given it some thought, and well,
Say that I do give life a try
There will be times where I shall yearn for the past, and, well,
I suppose I will get by somehow
Given some thought, it’s very simple
All that matters is the way I see it
It’s less getting by, and more that I
Haven’t a choice
Really, it’s all I can do to live
So I think, but that is that
That winter evening, when I was twelve
Echoing across the harbour’s sky
The steam of the whistle; whither is it now.
Ebitoro.wordpess.com
@whitefelp
"An Innocent Song”
Original by Nakahara Chuuya (Published posthumously, 1938)
Looking back, I’ve come a long way
Since that winter evening, when I was twelve
Echoing across the harbour’s sky
The steam of the whistle; whither is it now
The moon was nestled between the clouds
And when I heard that steam whistle blow
I flinched, gripped hard by a sudden fear
The moon, then, was in the skies
How many years have passed since then
The steam of the whistle which I’d blankly follow
With my gaze, and be fraught with sorrow
The boy I had been; whither is he now
Now I am with wife and child
Looking back, I’ve come a long way
Though still for a time into the future
I daresay I shall live on some more
I daresay I shall live on some more
But while the days and nights of the distant past
Seem so sweet and familiar
and for which I long
My confidence, before them, withers and dies
Alas, as long as I am alive
My nature bids I at the very least try
With that thought I am filled,
despite myself
By a sense of pathetic pitifulness
I’ve given it some thought, and well,
Say that I do give life a try
There will be times where I shall yearn for the past, and, well,
I suppose I will get by somehow
Given some thought, it’s very simple
All that matters is the way I see it
It’s less getting by, and more that I
Haven’t a choice
Really, it’s all I can do to live
So I think, but that is that
That winter evening, when I was twelve
Echoing across the harbour’s sky
The steam of the whistle; whither is it now.
Ebitoro.wordpess.com
@lucarootsi
absolutely great !
@jasongusrang9311
Fantastic song.
@Tentaigi
so good.
@MrBacondeath
Lovely.
@jnsurg947
中原中也、「在りし日の歌」より。「頑是ない歌」
@user-dp4wf5rp6l
Нечего не понятно, но очень интересно 👍
@arquilocodeparos3936
me obsesiona el rostro de la foto (como me obsesiona el contrapunto de esa voz femenina transmitiéndonos desde la intimidad los detallles de una historia que nunca conoceré): "el mundo se acaba, amiga", ay.
@limonhada
Arquiloco De Paros puedes traducir el fragmento de la historia? me gusta mucho la canción pero no entiendo japones :c
@wombzy
Lyrics english?