December 27, 2010

Website changes

Hello! I hope you had a nice Christmas! The year is ending and I wanted to fix something before 2011 comes. Before, if you clicked in a track of a CD from "Discography" page, you'd be redirected to a big page where you could see info about the song you chose and other ones too. This was a bit annoying, because you had to use scroll down to see other songs and so... Also, if you went to "Lyrics" page, you'd find the CD's cover arts with links to pages where all the songs from this CD were hosted, that way you could check lyrics for an entire CD, the bad part is that some songs are repeated in the discography and are in more than one CD, like TATE, which is in TATE single, TADAIMA album, OCHUUGEN album and SHUUGAKUSHOU best album... so I'd had to repeat the same lyrics for the page on TADAIMA, OCHUUGEN and SHUUGAKUSHOU, for example, this is a bit boring too!

So now I made a single page for each song in Yoeko Kurahashi's discography, if you click one song, you'll be redirected to the exclusive page of that song, where you'll be able to find info and lyrics on it, this took a while yes, but was worth it.

I know the setences above sounded a bit too geeky and kinda hard to understand, just keep in mind things will be nicer now when browsing the website :)

Also, I've searched a lot about some unreleased tracks from Yoeko, and I felt I had to talk about them one way or another, in here! So I made a new link to "Demos" that you can find on "Discography" page. Please take a look there, it's very interesting for any Yoeko hard fan, I just wish I had more information about them...

And last but not least: if you've browsed the website a little, you've noticed some information about certain songs are missing and marked with a "?". That means I tried my best, but could not find this info anywhere in the internet and also, that I don't own the CD where this info is provided, that's a shame, I know! I feel really bad about missing this kind of thing, but just can't help it... so I made things easier for people who wants to help this website to be a really big database of Yoeko Kurahashi works!! I did a nice form, that can be found here (provided by Email Me Form™) where you can send me this kind of missing stuff, or a suggestion, or a correction without needing to send me an email! :)

I know this post was kind of boring, but I've wasted almost the whole week doing these updates to make the website look nicer, and just felt like telling you...

Oh, I've noticed Media section is empty since ever, and I plan to make some uploads soon, just look forward it! Thanks for reading.

December 21, 2010

New Remastered Releases!

I received earlier today an email from CDJapan with great news for Yoeko fans, specially the new ones! Warner Music Japan is re-releasing Rei, Omoutsubo, Fujin'you, Ningen Yametemo and Modern Girl!!! These same items were also re-released in 2005 through Universal Music but are already out of print. I felt really glad myself with these news, because when I got to know Yoeko, those items were already out of print and I would have to spend more than 5,000 yen (or even more) for each of them, plus shipping and service taxes. The original prices were held and the releases are due to February 9th, 2011, but you can already preorder them. Also, all CDs received digitally 24 bit remastering, niiice.


REI OMOUTSUBO FUJIN'YOU NINGEN YAMETEMO MODERN GIRL
WPCL-10896
2011.02.09

Pre-order at:
CDJapan
Amazon.co.jp
YesAsia
WPCL-10897
2011.02.09

Pre-order at:
CDJapan
Amazon.co.jp
YesAsia
WPCL-10898
2011.02.09

Pre-order at:
CDJapan
Amazon.co.jp
YesAsia
WPCL-10899
2011.02.09

Pre-order at:
CDJapan
Amazon.co.jp
YesAsia
WPCL-10900
2011.02.09

Pre-order at:
CDJapan
Amazon.co.jp
YesAsia

Tokyo Piano was the only album not re-released yet, mainly because it was originally released under First Aid Network / Universal Music , and these above were under Warner Indies Network. But you can easily find it for digital download at iTunes Store Japan. The singles Tate and Tomodachi no uta are also out of print nowadays, but they were released under major label BabeStar (actually FlyingStar) and I don't think they're getting a re-release soon. :(

December 19, 2010

Lyrics Update!

Hey, it's been a while without updates, but I've been busy with my finals, well. I come with lyrics for Kaitai Piano and Tokyo Piano albums, unfortunately missing amefuri from Tokyo Piano... didn't find original lyrics for it :(