Man, am I a lucky Maniac or what? Just a few minutes after waking up and surveying a Saturday landscape that doesn’t look all that appetizing, Hauptharmonie tweeted out the kind of track that, among idols at least, nobody else even tries to pull off:
Tapferkeit Band
Hauptharmonie und Tapferkeit Band Are Gonna Get Super Jazzy
This was a fun bit of news from yesterday that I wanted to save, and also because I had no idea what the original tweet was definitely saying until after the fact. But! It could have been predicted that Hauptharmonie would have a new release coming along at basically any moment, seeing as how they tend to put out something of substance at a rate that would even make Billie Idle blush, and it’d been … wow, many months since the release of the (very good) Herz ueber Kopf. So this, by itself, wasn’t tremendously shocking:
04/04/2017 Hauptharmonie und Tapferkind Band
『Brass!Brass!!Brass!!!』release. pic.twitter.com/tjimaiuBDr— Hauptharmonie (@Hauptharmonie) February 24, 2017
Presuming of course that the completely contextless tweet would be eventually be accompanied by some details in the form of news, that is! Good think that happened. Continue reading
Look, It’s Live Hauptharmonie Rehearsal Footage!
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: