go green
Setagaya-ku, Tōkyō, Japan | SELF
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The complete persistence in band sound is attractive, in spite of solo acts. The earthy, silk textured voice has charm. Should experience this excellent sense for music which allows 60's pops, 90's grunge, shoegazing to coexist without any feeling of strangeness.
(April 2011 issue, translated from Japanese) - Player magazine (Japan)
The complete persistence in band sound is attractive, in spite of solo acts. The earthy, silk textured voice has charm. Should experience this excellent sense for music which allows 60's pops, 90's grunge, shoegazing to coexist without any feeling of strangeness.
(April 2011 issue, translated from Japanese) - Player magazine (Japan)
Discography
Still working on that hot first release.
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Bio
http://www.myspace.com/gogreenmusic
http://gogreen.syncl.jp/
http://www.facebook.com/gogreenmusic
http://www.youtube.com/spunktone
60s/70s meet 90s = go green
"go green" were formed by Kenji in 1995, as a three piece (Guitar-Bass-Drums) rock band in Tokyo. Few years later, the band shifted to Kenji's SOLO project. Almost all of the songs were produced at a small apartment in Tokyo and go green pursued the possibilities of so-called "bedside recording" by powerful rhythms, crunchy guitars and floating melodies.
go green sometimes plays live, even though solo act. Kenji plays alone with electric/acoustic guitar and Pre-Self-Recorded Back Tracks on iPod. The sound is like the mix of hard rock and electro. This unique style of performance is sometimes described as a "stand-alone rock band".
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The band name came from several reasons. The color green reminds forest, nature, grass, hope and growth, while in others, it is associated with sickness, death, envy, inexperience (or cannabis?). This dual nature of light and darkness was fascinating and also symbolized their music. Or it was simply Kenji's most favorite color. "go" in front of "green", that had a nice ring to it and sounded like getting a boost. That's why the band was named "go green" in 1995, which was much earlier than the recently used "eco-friendly" meaning.
The sound was originally inspired from the mid-to-late Beatles and 70s rock, also the influence of 90s rock scene (madchester, grunge, shoegazing, powerpop) were combined. Rhythms were heavy and tight, left the taste of funk groove especially influenced by The Stone Roses and Soul Coughing. Lyrics were apparently seemed like love song but involved deep human minds between joy and sorrow. Or sometimes made no sense at all. These styles are still flowing as blood of go green sound.
go green released the first album "From Apple To Pepper" in 2002 via the first and former largest music website "mp3[dot]com" in the US. All lyrics of 9 tracks were written in Japanese. CDs were sold out but the re-mastered version was exclusively released on iTunes Stores worldwide in 2007.
http://www.itunes.com/gogreen/fromappletopepper
In 2008, go green has restarted the live shows in Tokyo. Around this time, more lyrics were written in English.
In 2009, go green applied for the "UK Songwriting Contest" and received "Semi-Finalist" status. The songs were "Baby Smiley Smile" and "Fantastic Bloom".
http://www.songwritingcontest.co.uk/
The second album "Floating on the Edge" was released in Mid-October 2010 via DIY label "SpunkTone" in Japan. The unique 11 tracks filled with many characters of time travel from 60s to 90s rock have created a brand-new world and the sounds easily leap the time and language (8 tracks in English, 2 in Japanese, 1 Both). It's also available on CDBaby in the US and downloads on iTunes Store, Amazon MP3 etc.
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gogreen/
go green
Floating on the Edge
SpunkTone, STCN-102 [Japan Import]
Audio CD w/ 6 pages full color booklet incl. all song lyrics
UPC: 859704386596
[News]
On April 27th, 2012, go green's new Music Video "Japanglish Rock" was released on YouTube. In this video, Kenji collaborated with young all-female band and many talented professionals/young staff.
go green - Japanglish Rock [Video]
http://youtu.be/W0IgH4RvBQ4
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