Oomori Seiko and The Pink Tokarev Releases MV for “hayatochiri” from Their Upcoming Album “Tokarev”

| Artist | Posted by Alex Shenmue on Feb.08.2015

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Oomori Seiko and The Pink Tokarev released the Music Video for hayatochiri, promoting and opening track of their upcoming album Tokarev set to be released on March 4th.

Before getting into the details of this MV and song, it’s fair to make clear what this project is all about: The Pink Tokarev is nothing less than Oomori’s support band in studio and live, and despite the singer is clearly (and proudly) a solo artist, this is actually her de facto band, and together they’re releasing a self-cover album of the best tracks and successes from Oomori’s indie days revisited with rock sonorities, getting rid of all the original acoustic goodness that brought Oomori to success in the indie scene and opened the doors to her Major debut. The concept of hearing beautiful songs from the singer’s excellent album Zettai Shoujo with a different execution is surely exciting, but it also bring some risks: Cover albums are always tricky, and while the concept behind these kind of tracks is proposing old songs in a different key without ruining the original work, hayatochiri reaches this achievement only by half: The execution is good and the electric guitars in particular emphasize many parts of the track nicely showing a nice attention for details in particular segments, with the main melody particularly benefiting from it, bringing a certain catchy vibe that gives the track a nice boost; the rythmic part does its job just enough without too much influence, even though more “effective” bass lines could have gave the track more personality.

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While it’s clear that these guys know what they’re doing, the song loses a bit in terms of structure: hayatochiri is originally an acoustic track only coupled by Oomori’s vocals, and while it sounded just great in its original form, this rock version suffers from the singer’s unpredictable, almost improvised style of composing this particular kind of tracks: You don’t listen to a rock piece and an acoustic song with the same approach, and this cover suffers from it, with some parts sounding forced on electric guitar, especially the bridge that kinda breaks the mood and could have definitely been re-proposed more appropriately. All in all though, despite its flaws, the track sounds pretty nice and doesn’t ruin the memory (not entirely, at least) of that beautiful track that is hayatochiri, and I can’t wait to hear more from the entire album, that will hopefully come without bad surprises.

Also… did you notice? The Music Video is a parody, heck, it’s a frame by frame cover of GLAY’s MV for 誘惑 (Temptation), one of the most successful hits from the J-rock veterans dated 1998, with Oomori and her band mates wearing similar outfits, same shots, and even an old looking 4:3 aspect. She’s crazy, but that’s why we love her.

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*Editor’s note
Unexpectedly, Oomori Seiko and The Pink Tokarev announced that they will breakup next month, and it means this album will be their last album. We’ll report about it soon later.

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Oomori Seiko Official Site : http://oomoriseiko.info/

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