#keiko matsui

[sailorrabies]

this was the greatest thrift find ever. the thrift gods blessed me with keiko matsui. i SHOULD’VE seen her live in november but i was too depressed (awkward). anyways she has a stop in may of 2025 close to my bday so ill prob def go to that. anyways i found The Ring at a thrift one day, thought the CD was cool and bought it. then i started playing it at the preschool i work at and fell in love. and then i went to the same thrift and got ANOTHER keiko matsui cd. and then i went to another thrift, two states over. TWO MORE. KEIKO MATSUI CDS. i was meant to find her. we were meant to be. idk anything abt her. maybe her cds are in the thrift bc of some major controversy. idk. i have not looked up a single thing about her. anyways everyone should listen to keiko matsui but also nooo she’s for me and me only noooo

[janmorrill]

Day 15 - Love Matters

Today’s Word Count: So far, 689 words. I’m at the library now, a place that has become one of my favorite writing spaces. I put on my AirPods and tune in to instrumental soundtracks (today, it’s Keiko Matsui) and like magic, my fingers begin to fly. Something about listening to instrumental music seems to block out all the mental messages that often toss my creativity into a quicksand pit where…

[kickmag]

Keiko Matsui & Lalah Hathaway Share Lyric Video For Love And Nothing Less

Keyboardist and composer Keiko Matsui has collaborated with soul star Lalah Hathaway and harmonica player Grégoire Maret on the single "Love and Nothing Less." The song is on Matsui's 30th album Euphoria which takes its title from the artist's reaction to seeing how music has connected people in her travels around the world. Hathaway lights up the words with her pure tone that Matsui immediately thought of when she began writing the song. She says,

"The moment the first melody came to me, I immediately could hear Lalah singing and before I even made contact with her, I had written the complete verse melody while imagining her voice. I really admire her as an artist, so I was so happy we had the opportunity to finally collaborate. Her performance is amazing! When I shared my feelings and thoughts about the song, she delicately captured the vibe and spirit of it and transformed it into beautiful words.” 

Maret's harmonica is another layer of feeling inside the nuanced movements of sound that mimic the heart's ascendance into love. Matsui's "Love and Nothing Less" is one capable step towards her goal of bringing more harmony to the planet with music. 

[blue-inc]

A much more metal-ly mix than normal

[jpopstreaming]

🆕🎶 「 Euphoria 」 new album by Keiko Matsui is now available worldwide! 🌐 Listen now and discover new sounds from Japan on our weekly updated playlist 🎧 https://spoti.fi/3lgjH73

[taxi-davis]

Rob O.T. & C.Y. Borg — From The Circuit

[rei-the-head-shaker]

Seven manga sold and one gifted!

I'm probably gonna give more in the future during my Little Free Libraries tour. But it is a start!

[feral-ballad]

Yosano Akiko, tr. by Sam Hamill & Keiko Matsui Gibson, from River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko

[Text ID: “Picking wild roses, / some to weave into my hair / and some for the hand, / I then waited for hours, / I waited for you all day.”]

[hollowtones]

my month-late PAX West post (& a catalogue of some things I saw and did and bought in September / late August)

PAX West was very fun this year. It was my first ever PAX and it was my first convention at all in maybe a decade. Any excuse to see friends is a good one & I love hanging out with the RTVS crew whenever I have the time and money to travel. ^_^ I even got to see some friends I've never seen in person before!!! (Thank you to Jill and Evan for the "Petal Crash" pin & thank you to Taxi for stealing my name tag by accident.)

I am very shy, and I have very severe social anxiety that causes me a lot of problems in my day-to-day life, so I almost didn't go to the RTVS meetup. People there were very sweet, though, so I'm glad I did. It feels very heartening to have people come up to you and tell you what the things you've made have meant to them. It was very hard to not cry. LOL

If you stopped by to say hi, thank you very much. I've been thinking about it through all of September and smiling a lot about it. ^_^

The rest of this post is largely pics of things Puzz and I picked up for ourselves. (And a little bit of talking about some other things we did.) I thought it would be fun to catalogue them. I tend to be a little thrifty, so I got to splurge on my wife. LOL

These were mostly things we got for Puzz because I didn't want to worry about lugging things home in a suitcase. But she keeps telling me they're our things, which makes me smile every time I think about it. Some of the pins are for me. I'd like to put them on my backpack... Hopefully they don't fall off. Jackie and Dodogama are friends.

The "Chicory" bag is a bit of a funny story. Puzz and I saw the "Beastieball" booth in the corner of the indie section. Very fun demo. Very cute booth. They have cool merch! I thought I saw Lena Raine working the booth, and I got really shy & nervous about making a poor impression, so I just kind of hid behind my partner. (I wish I had said hi, in retrospect... but we live and we learn...) So we just kind of shuffle off to the merch desk and talk to a very nice man there while we pick up some things. I work up the guts to say that I really like these games and that they mean a lot to me!! The guy says, well thank you, that means a lot to me and the team. Wow! Real swell guy, I'm thinking to myself. A day or two later Puzz and I are out to lunch with some friends and I just suddenly go eyes wide & mouth agape because I put two and two together in my head and realize Oh holy shit that was Greg Lobanov wasn't it. LOL

Puzz found a cheap copy of "999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors" for the DS at a retro game store's pop-up. They also had "A Bug's Life" for Game Boy Colour and a strategy guide for "Gex 3", both of which I wish I had picked up.

Mr. Basculin was a gift from Jake. Good news! Mr. Basculin is still alive.

This is all stuff that was given to me as gifts. (Aside from the con badges. They make you pay for those.) You've probably already seen the Bibi that Jake made me. "Chicken Run" was also from him. "Zapper" was from Puzz and the Gumby game (& the Bad Boe sticker) was from Scorpy. These games fuckin suck asshole!!!!!!!!! I'm obsessed with them & I'll cherish them forever. I also got a little rock and a human dog keychain.

I think Scorpy said a fan gave this to him at PAX East to pass to me eventually. I'm having a hard time reading the @ on it, but on the off-chance you see this: thank you so much. Every time I think about it I get a little teary-eyed. I want to get myself a little picture frame for it. (This is the first time someone's given me fanart like this before, and it made me very emotional. LOL)

Puzz and I only got 2-day passes for PAX, so we spent the rest of our time in Seattle hanging out with friends and seeing the sights. I don't feel like digging all the photos out right now, but we went to a really fucking nice jazz club (Dimitriou's Jazz Alley - great ambience, really good food, we saw Keiko Matsui live which was life-changing), we visited MoPOP (I hadn't been in years! It was alright! Puzz had some capital-t Thoughts about the whole place which was fun to listen to!), we rode the trains, I got a big bag of Dicks, we walked around downtown. There was this really nice coffee shop that I keep having dreams about, so I hope I can go back to Seattle soon. (Or at least eventually, next year.) Then we went to Portland for a day to say hi to a friend because the state was nearby.

Then we went back to Puzz's place in California. Then there was a major heatwave & a bunch of wildfires nearby... So we didn't have the chance to get out much in September. But that's okay. We've both been tired lately & I think we both badly needed some dedicated Not Doing Things time. It's just a shame that it was enforced by Dangerous Weather Conditions.

We got to visit some local friends and I got to try out more Bog-Standard Mediocre American Food. (Dunkin Donuts is just Tim Hortons. Olive Garden is kind of scary but the salad was really good and the breadsticks were fine. I had a middling hamburger from Jack In The Box tonight. Their milkshake was very good. I'm sure I'm forgetting others.) I went to a Macy's for the first time and the layout of the store made me have a panic attack. We went for nice walks and saw lots of nice critters and plants. I got to swim! I watched a mediocre PlayStation presentation! I turned 30 years old! Puzz took me to a very fancy and really nice Italian place for my birthday, in case you were worried that I was only eating garbage here. LOL

We got a lot of books.

Maybe too many. Also a Miles Davis vinyl for myself & some Gunpla as an early birthday gift for Puzz. And also the cookbook was a gift from family. But I'm very excited to tuck into more of these, hopefully soon. Some were for me and some were for Puzz but knowing us we're going to go "hey, I liked this one, you check it out" or "hey, I didn't like this one, but maybe you will" for a lot of them. I'm gonna start with "Annihilation" and the game essays book. ("House of Leaves" is a second copy for us, because my copy was originally Puzz's and I wanted them to be able to read it too.) I don't have room in my bags for much more than what I came here with, so we're gonna ship some of the books to each other when we're done reading.

It's been a very nice month... I feel very thankful to have a life full of love like this. I don't think I have anything else to add to this post! Thanks for reading.

[sakurabreeze]

Ikebana (生花)

Photo: Matsui Keiko

[gatoraid]

Poems by Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) from her poetry compilation River of Stars, translated by Sam Hamill and Keiko Matsui Gibson

[muriers]

This was a series of collages I made for the MCYT Recursive Gift Exchange held by @mcytrecursive for @/nobledragonflying, inspired by "Ruby in the Moonlight" by Silverwing15. This was originally posted here on Ao3, but I had made these with tumblr post dimensions in mind ^_^'

Image descriptions in the alt text

ARTWORK/PHOTOGRAPHY/POETRY/PROSE REFERENCED

// “The Arts: Poetry” by Alphonse Mucha // “River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko” By Yosano Akiko, Translated by Keiko Matsui Gibson and Sam Hamill // “Annunciation with St. Maxima and St. Ansanus” by Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi // “What Kind of Woman: Poems” by Kate Baer // “Crow Eating a Persimmon” by Ohara Koson // Book of Hours for Use in Paris: The Hours of René of Anjou // Screenshots of Technoblade’s, Philza’s, and Tommyinnit’s Minecraft characters from the streams “Tommy Teams with Technoblade in Exile,” “Tubbo & Tommy Plan A Prison Break w/ Ranboo, & WilburSoot!,” and “JAILBREAK [DREAM SMP FINALE]” // “Marlena” by Julie Buntin // “Heart of Gold” by Debra Baxter // “Field Book of Insects” by Edna Libby Beutenmuller // “Haikai Na No Shiori” By Shigemasa Kitao and Sogai Tani // “Gold Tourmaline Ring” photo from The Art Institute of Chicago // “Gold and Garnet Ring” photo from Timeline Auctions // “Gold bracelet with Carnelian Scarabs” photo from the Victoria and Albert Museum // “The Unicorn Tapestries” // “Gold Earrings with Garnet and Pearls” photo from the Cleveland Museum of Art // “Norwegian Wood” by Murakami Haruki, translated by Jay Rubin // “Fleet Street” photo by James Valentine // “Full Moon at Akashi Beach” by Tsuchiya Koitsu // “Garnet Roman Pendant” photo from Christie’s Auctions // “Stone Blind” by Natalie Haynes // White Daisy and Red Poppy from Minecraft // “Living Room of a Book Dealer” by Adolph von Menzel // “Flowering Lotus” by Ohara Koson // “Tit on Paulownia” by Ohara Koson // “Fan with Morning Glories” by Maruyama Okyo // The Book of Hours: Black Hours // "Maple Tree" By Hasegawa Tohaku // “Fille Au Citronnier” by Emile Vernon // “Torii at Miyajima” by Yoshimune Arai // "Japanese Anemone" by Tamamura Toyoo //

[cynsualc829]

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The Rebroadcast of musical smooth grooves. Kick back, reflect on those great moments, and join Bruce Buege for The Smooth Jazz Kitchen Radioshow - Reflections.

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The Smooth Jazz Kitchen Radioshow - Reflections

00:00 Blake Aaron - The Way You Sway

00:05 Walter Beasley - Reflections

00:09 Jeffery Smith - Reflections

00:14 Steve Baxter feat Ellis Hall - Fire

00:17 Lowell Hopper - Reflection

00:22 Les Sabler - Midnight Reflections

00:27 Marcus Adams feat Regan Whiteside - Party Time

00:30 Jeff Lorber - Reflections

00:35 Julian Vaughn - Reflection

00:40 Michael Cates - Newport Nights

00:44 Chris Standring - Reflection

00:48 George Howardeflections

00:53 Kenny G feat Ellis Hall - What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)

00:58 Jim Adkins - Reflections

01:02 Jayson Tipp Music feat Greg Vail - 7th & Main

01:07 Dan Siegel - Reflections

01:11 Kimberly Brewer feat Gerald Albright & Mark Kibble - Tasting Sunshine

01:15 Jonathan Butler - Reflections

01:21 Joey Sommerville feat Phil Perry - Reflections

01:27 Nick Stefanacci Music - Secrets

01:30 Rob Tardik - Reflections

01:36 Vann Burchfield - Reflections Of Long Ago

01:40 Cord Martin - Urban Renaissance

01:45 Keiko Matsui - Reflections

01:49 Brian Bromberg - Last Day of Summer

[violettesiren]

With teary eyes, she turns to me for sympathy, but all I can see reflected on the water is a lonely harvest moon.

from River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko (Translated by Sam Hamill and Keiko Matsui Gibson)

[the-original-b]

Ten songs

I was tagged by the lovely @simply-eno !

The rules are simply to post ten (10) random songs from my playlist. I don't even know what's in my Liked Songs so this'll be an adventure for all of us.

Margit, the Fell Omen by Tsukasa Saitoh

Someday by Godsmack

Name of the Game by the Crystal Method

Ain't No Such Thing as Superman by Charenee Wade

A Gentle Dissolve by Thievery Corporation

Our Time is Now by Gojira

Don't Come Close by Yeasayer

The Unkillable Soldier by Sabaton

Gomorrah by Lamb of God

Tears from the Sun by Keiko Matsui

...what can I say? I'm a complicated fellow.

Tagging: @missing-kat @teaspirationss @guitplyr @smps-corner @the-long-red-rays @fairylightsandchai and anybody else who comes across this.

[theotherpages]

Acoustic Alchemy Live

We had the pleasure last night of seeing (and listening to) Acoustic Alchemy at the Boca Black Box Theater. It's an intimate venue where you can be close to the music and hear and see everything. Last year we saw Keiko Matsui there on the first stop in her U.S. tour.

They played a wide selection of tracks from across their discography, including old favorites and material off their most recent album, 33 1/3. They even played an untitled piece off of their future EP, which should come out next year.

Acoustic Alchemy is a British/American Jazz Band with emphasis on the complex interplay of two guitarists - Miles Gilderdale and Greg Carmichael, who have fronted the band since the release of The Beautiful Game in 2000. Joining them are brothers Greg and Gary Grainger on percussion and bass, and Jay Rowe on keyboards.

We have enjoyed their music for years (decades). It was great to have an opportunity to hear them live. Here are some photos from last night.

--Steve