I feel a little bit badly that the world’s coolest jazz & swing & whatever they want idols only managed to get a single spot into the Best of 2016 finals, but the truth is that they narrowly missed on the album, video and song finals, and I reckon that they’ll be all up in our business next year.
Perhaps sensing that we, their loyal fans, needed to be placated and/or bribed, they dropped this nice little chunk of live video on us, including the tasty breakout “Kidnapper Blues”:
And not just any rehearsal footage, but their work with the Tapferkeit Band (which I’m taking as their version of the Kami Band) that will accompany them at their one-man at LIQUID on Friday:
— Hauptharmonie (@Hauptharmonie) July 20, 2016
If you happen to be in the vicinity, here are the details:
結成2周年ワンマン【しろくまばゆい】は今週金曜＠恵比寿リキッドルーム
呟きはあらぬ解釈を生むしたいがいのことは歌詞に込めてきた。
痛みも喜びも憤りも快楽もアウフヘーベンする（ダサいw）https://t.co/ix31uqw03a pic.twitter.com/Go1XpLNpgN— Hauptharmonie (@Hauptharmonie) July 20, 2016
I have no idea why the title of their album is listed as “Mein Kampf” on that image, but … look, they just aren’t as sensitive about these things in Japan, all right? “Kopf” and “Kampf” maybe look similar? I dunno.
This for just in case you weren’t aware that Hauptharmonie ist besonders gut:
I was recently having an offline conversation with someone who asked me who “my” idols are; like, yeah, I have this site and I promote pretty much everything that comes my way, even if it’s obvious that I’m personally not that enthused about it, but who am I really in the bag for?
At this very moment, nobody’s exciting me more than Hauptharmonie, and they just gave two great reasons why.
“Kidnapper Blues” had a nice moment in the sun here before, but now it’s out in terrifyingly bleak music video form!
If I have to sell somebody else’s soul to make jazzcore a legitimately big-time thing, I’ll sell all of your souls.
But they’re not done! Continue reading
