Sekai

Sekai (世界, World) is a song by Chara. It was released as the first single from her album Union on September 13, 2006 (2006-09-13). It debuted at #24 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted for five weeks. The song was used in commercials for the NEC brand 'Foma N702iS' cellphone.

Chara wrote the song in 2005. The main guitar chords in the song were recycled from the song Ongaku (音楽, Music) from her 2005 independently released album Something Blue.

She wrote "Amai Tori" (甘い鳥, Sweet Bird) in the style of Stevie Nicks. The B-side "Anata" (あなた, You) is a cover of Akiko Kosaka's 1973 debut single.

Music video

The music video was shot by director Kenjiro Harigai (針谷建二郎 ). It begins with an animated/CGI image of an egg that cracks becomes a bird. This bird flies off past several doors, and enters one into a space scene. The scene switches to Chara in an almost completely white room with a white dress. She wears her hair half-straight and half in an afro (with the division being vertically down the centre of her head). The scene switches to a drawing a Chara falling through a dark, psychedelic scene, followed by a white-backed scene depicting different drawings. Chara returns to the white room, however with a different hair-style and now drawn animals floating around her. Occasionally the originally dressed Chara appears behind her. The video ends with more psychedelic scenes and the bird flying away into space/clouds.

Shin Sekaï

Shin Sekaï is a French singing / rapping fusion duo made up of Dadju (vocals) and Abou Tall (rap). The band's name means "New World" in Japanese (新世界), and was taken from a fictional territory in the popular manga series One Piece.

Shin Sekaï are signed to French independent label Wati B. Dadju is the brother of rapper Maître Gims, member of the successful French rap group Sexion d'Assaut, a major act of Wati B.

On 21 January 2013, they released their debut album The Shin Sekaï, Vol. 1 with "Je reviendrai" picked as the debut single.

Discography

Albums

Singles

*Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.

*Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.

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The Shin

The Shin (Georgian: შინ) is a Georgian fusion jazz band formed in Germany in 1998. The Shin are Zaza Miminoshvili (guitars, panduri), Zurab J. Gagnidze (bass, vocals) and Mamuka Gaganidze (vocals, percussion). The music of The Shin smoothly combines Georgian folk melodies with jazz, famous native polyphonic singing with scat, and tunes of the near Orient and flamenco with a modern Western sound.

The group represented Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 along with singer Mariko Ebralidze with the song "Three Minutes to Earth", but they came in last place in their semi-final and did not advance.

The word "Shin" literally means "home" or "going home" in the Georgian language.

Discography

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Sekai no Owari

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SEKAI NO OWARI (literally: End of the World) is a creator group, originating from Tokyo. The band was created in 2007 and consists of four members: Nakajin, Fukase, Saori, and DJ LOVE.

History

2007–2009

Starting out as an indie band, SEKAI NO OWARI performed their first live concert at club EARTH with 15 people attending. The band self-produced their first demo, Sekai no Owari, with a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Fukase, vocalist, named the band Sekai no Owari because "Once you've experienced the bottom (the negative side of your life), you have to find a way to go up (the positive side). So I named my band End of the World to create the strength [I needed] through the music."

2010–2012

SEKAI NO OWARI started to become popular in the Japanese indie scene in 2010. In August in 2011, SEKAI NO OWARI performed a solo concert at the Nippon Budokan where The Beatles performed in 1966. The tickets for this show sold out. In November, their album ENTERTAINMENT, was awarded Best Album for the Japan Record Award.