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@AlternativeJapan · 9 months ago

'Songs from the Red Planet' Is LIVE. Pay What You Want With BCH

Nite Owl Works’ debut concept album, Songs from the Red Planet, is an unapologetically straightforward yet cryptic love letter to the modern world from a place of extreme loneliness, adoration, frustr...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Now Accepting BCH for My Music Via Prompt.Cash

Hi guys, I am thrilled to announce that my band Nite Owl Works has a shiny new website, and that you don't need to go through the Apple Gulag or Play Store Penitentiary to get our tunes. It's all poss...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Morning Coffee, Tokyo Station

Morning coffee Tokyo Station Life is meant to be lived Watching the people pass by All their different inimitable faces Mistaking French kids for American backpackers I met with friends...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

October Bike Ride

Out in the daylight hours for once. Not sure I can take the vampire life much longer. Autumn smoke. Gutted house. Freedom by the riverbank on an October bike ride. The world is being de-spiritualize...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Nite Owl Works - "AT&Love" Promotional Video

My band's first PV. Hope you dig it. https://odysee.com/@AlternativeJapan:a/AT-Love:8

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

prayer

god, if you're out there... i don't wanna play a rigged game that's why I'm still broke If one flew over the Cuckoo's nest, maybe i can be next. They poisoned me. That is true. but what...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

September LIVE! Highlights: Mimi Smith, Nite Owl Works, GS and Friends

Hey hey! I hope you'll enjoy this video of AlternativeJapan's September LIVE! events! 9.26.23 - Mimi Smith - Jazz LIVE @ Monza, Sanjō, Niigata 9.16.23 - Nite Owl Works - LIVE @ G's Longboard, Se...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

New Year's Eve, 2005

New Year’s Eve, 2005 The cold Chicago buildings On New Year’s Eve. Climbing the cold metal rungs of the ladder, on the roof of the complex. Lake Michigan just in the distance. Sears Tower Spark...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

New Studio Single Available Exclusively to BCH'rs for Now

In support of our recording process, and to share a little of what we are doing, my band Nite Owl Works is releasing our new single exclusively via private link (see player below) for two more days....

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Shoegaze Summer in Review

Summer flew by. Big moments. Small moments. Struggles. Progress on the musical front. The rice is being harvested now and that blows my mind. I was gifted this legendary shoegaze album by Ride recent...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Nite Owl Works: Recording Is Under Way!

Just hit the studio this week for the first session to begin work on the upcoming album I've had in my sights for months now (actually decades). I decided to take resolute action toward this goal back...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

l Live at Night (the lucky ones)

I live at night under the influence of stars, dreams and thoughts no one knows Her lips were blue on Mt. Fuji and she said this is close enough to the summit ready to fall asleep (and die if we...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

3 Miles at 2 a.m. — Glittering Stars, Ambient Tunes

I've been binge drinking in moderation. If there is such a thing. Drinking almost every night for the past two weeks to be able to fall asleep, numb the sting, relax some sore muscles, ease health i...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Orion Over the Echigo Plain

Pariah Carey That’s a band I wanna start Also the Kansas City Faggots Blazing Saddles one-liner rock Hot and humid and disgusting Even in the wee hours tonight Life isn’t easy If you actually b...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

End of Summer

Typhoon clouds, no rain It’s more lonely than lonely: Misunderstanding Old friends gone quiet Nothing but dreams in my chest Dust of passing years Like a lightning flash Summer ends be...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Once again I cannot post links. This is really becoming a drag. Have another post I'd like to share, but it is a video so I can't share it. My friend and I just did our original, DIY running event o...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Sumida Sun

The mad heat of summer Sumida Sun The burning blue sky of a Tokyo summer I find a ramen shop with extra thin noodles The owner and I can't decide on English or Japanese but he's cordial and kind...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Running Blog 08: Superchunk in the Rain / 雨でスーパーチャンク

Rainy season just won't end this year. But at least there's bands like Superchunk to help power through it. 1994's "Foolish" is a wonderful album. I recommend. 今年の梅雨まだ終わってない、海の日の...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Heat, Swing, Bluegrass and Booze: Niigata Jazz Street 2023

Niigata, Japan's Duke Ellington Memorial jazz festival, known as Niigata Jazz Street, is two days of citywide jazz, folk, and bluegrass, and a day pass only costs ¥2,000, or about 15 bucks USD, and w...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Summer Hills, Sonic Youth

Hot as a sauna, but still... Nobody out in the shiny-happening NOW summer streets??? What a fucking waste!

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Running Blog 07: Three Ambient Runs / アンビエント音楽でラン

If you enjoy the outdoors and running, doing so with a nice ambient soundtrack can really take you to another planet — a "something else" experience. ランニングや自然が好きなら、アンビエント音楽を聴...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Haiku Contest — Win BitCats Heroes NFT #939!

Hello AlternativeJapan readers, I'm giving away one Bitcoin Cash BitCats Heroes NFT (one with a pretty good rarity score and who looks quite like a hipster) for the best haiku submission in the commen...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Observations from Nagoya: Dirty, Sexy, Colorful, Punk Rock Flavor

Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is a slice of "somewhere else" in the land of the rising sun, for someone coming from the vast rice plains, sprawling mountains and seaside, and often boring soci...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Running Blog 06: Musical Catharsis, Rainy Season Run / 音楽でカタルシス、梅雨

The past week has been challenging to say the least. 今週は苦しかったです。 I made an ill-advised financial deal, got sick, and was stressing pretty much 24/7 about mere survival and life in this r...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Original Music for Sale in BCH! Listen Here for Free :)

Well, my short EP of three home-recorded demos, "Magic Beach EP," arrived in the mail right on the Summer Solstice. I only ordered ten copies to start with, as I am hitting a more professional music s...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

4 Miles, 4 Torii, and One Tanuki — Run to the Fox Shrine

Ran four miles out to a neat shrine on a college campus today. The last stretch was a hill heading into the small mountains by my house, and boy did it take it outta me! Felt good. The shrine has...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Summer Solstice Spearfishing / 夏至のスピア・フィッシング

I couldn't sleep the night before the summer solstice. I gave up trying, and just went straight to the beach as I was planning to — but much earlier than I thought I would. 夏至の前の夜は全然眠れなか...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Sea Life / See Food / Eat Food - Japanese Seafood

Went out to the beach today for some spearfishing and took in the first two fish of the year. They were tiny, but it was good to get in some diving practice and just enjoy the sunshine, and being in t...

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

Slowdive Sunday Run

Ran 4 miles out to a new spot listening to a Slowdive album. Enjoyed the beat scenery, vast green carpet of lush rice fields, and shrine at golden hour.

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@AlternativeJapan · 1 year ago

(Shoegaze) Running Blog 05: MBV's 'Isn't Anything' Review (日本語/英語）

Ran to My Bloody Valentine's 1988 album "Isn't Anything" today. Went at a pretty good clip and had a nice average mile time. 今日は、マイ・ブラッディ・ヴァレンタインの「Isn't Anything 」を聴きなが...

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