Suiyōbi no Campanella

Wednesday Campanella
Native name 水曜日のカンパネラ
Also known as Suiyōbi no Campanella
Origin Japan
Genres Electronic
Years active 2012—present
Labels Tsubasa Records
Associated acts OBKR, OORUTAICHI
Website www.wed-camp.com
Members KOM_I
Hidefumi Kenmochi
Dir.F

Wednesday Campanella (水曜日のカンパネラ Suiyōbi no Kanpanera, "Suiyōbi no Campanella") is a Japanese electronic music group formed in 2012. The group consists of KOM_I, Hidefumi Kenmochi, and Dir.F.

History

Formation

In 2011, Dir.F and Kenmochi first met at Design Festa Tokyo. As a label manager in Tsubasa Records, Dir.F planned to start a new music project with provisional female members, while Kenmochi intended to produce a new music differ from his instrumental music after 311 Disaster in Japan. The two named the group as ‘’Suiyoubi no Campanella’’. In 2012, Dir.F met KOM_I at their mutual videographer friend’s house party and invited her to join the group. Suiyoubi no Campanella uploaded ‘Oz’ and ‘Kukai’ to Youtube in July. In November their first CD ‘’Suiyoubi no Campanella Demo 1’’ was sold at Design Festa Tokyo Autumn and the other member left the group around this time. Kenmochi and Dir. F subsequently became a member of Suiyoubi no Campanella.

2013-present On 11 March 2013, KOM_I reluctantly started live performances alone.　The first show was taken place at Shimokitazawa ERA. Their first mini album entitled ‘’Crawl to Saka Agari’’(Crawl and [Back hip circle] “クロールと逆上がり”) was released in May 2013. This album was exclusively released at Village Vanguard Shimokitazawa. The title was referred from the things what KOM_I is not good at her age.

In September 2013 Wednesday Campanella played at Ringo Ongakusai Festival. To perform at this festival was the first goal for the group at the beginning. KOM_I played several shows at several venues like shuttle buses with apple candy headed character, “Ringo-ame Man”. October 2013, “Rashomon”(羅生門) was released. From this mini album, releases of Suiyoubi no Campanella are distributed by Tower Records stores. In March 2014 “Cinema Jack”(“シネマジャック”) was released. The songs in this album are produced featuring serial web interviews in online music store, OTOTOY. On 5 August, "Momotaro” was premiered on J-WAVE.　This song made Suiyoubi no Campanella became popular among radio listeners.

Suiyoubi no Campanella released their fourth mini album, “Watashi wo Onigashima ni Tsuretette”(“Take me to Onigashima Island” 私を鬼が島に連れてって) in die-cut CD edition. In 2015, Suiyoubi no Campanella released ‘’Triathlon EP’’, which included 3 songs. In this EP, different artists produced each song. In addition to Kenmochi, OORUTAICHI and OBKR from N.O.R.K. recorded songs. In March 2016, KOM_I announced next album is on the way and come out around June from Warner records, while her first American show at SXSW. In April KOM_I became regular DJ for radio program ‘’’ Spark’’ on J-Wave.

Members

Name

The name origin of ‘’Suiyoubi no Campanella’’ referred to their usual meeting day, and the mixing of Kanji, Katakana, Hiragana was preferred for the ego surfing of the group. On 15 March 2016, Suiyoubi no Campanella performed at SXSW under “Wednesday Campanella” moniker for their first gig in US.

Live Performances

KOM_I appears alone on the stages, events, and promotional occasions. She took karaoke-style live. Kenmochi and Dir.F thought men are undesirable for the group to appear front stage when two discussed about some Japanese duet groups.

Music

Kenmochi is mainly in charge of music producing, composing, arranging, and song writing. The concept of the group that Kenmochi and Dir.F had in the early years was folklore style Perfume_(Japanese_band). Each song has certain themes refers from historical events, great persons, or pop culture. The lyrics Kenmochi writes have seemingly deep meanings, however they are generally senseless. KOM_I has no music career until she joined Wednesday Campanella.　According to KOM_I,’’I never thought I would sing a song at the over twenty years of age, I thought I would be an office worker as people around my age do’’. KOM_I performed as she was told to and did not put a word for producing music, but she positively participates after making ‘’Rashomon’’, The mismatch of her voice and hip-hop was preferred by Kenmochi.

Discography

Albums

Extended Play

Cover Album

Compilation

External links


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