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J-Stars:オレスカバンドOreskaband
Oreskaband is an all-female ska band from Sakai, Japan. They have released two full albums in Japan, Ore in July 2006, and WAO!! in May 2007 and Oreskaband in America. They have performed both in Japan and the United States, including the Fuji Rock Festival. Their songs have been featured as the 14th ending theme for the anime Naruto and the 11th ending theme for the anime Bleach. Their name "ore ska band" literally translates to "I'm (a) ska band."
ORESKABAND began in 2003 and began playing at local clubs when the members were in middle school. They self-produced their first album, Penpal, in 2005 and were signed by Sony Music in 2006 while they were still in high school.
Their official site: http://www.oreskaband.com/
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Re: J-Stars:オレスカバンドOreskaband
Here is a fairly recent article I found that mentioned the band.
AUGUST 15, 2007
Warped Tour de Force
Summer music festival turns 13
BY AMY ATKINS
Yeah, Ska!
Thirteen is typically considered an unlucky number. But not if it's the number of years that a very cool event, such as the Warped Tour, has been taking place.
Started in 1994 by Kevin Lyman, the Warped Tour initially appealed mainly to the young skateboarding set, but over the years has gained wider appeal. What sets the Warped Tour apart from (or above) other summer festivals in the fight for discretionary income, is its consistently low ticket price of around $30, its extensive lineup and the fact that it's not just a one-time event. The Tour travels across the country and though not every band will play all of the scheduled 45 dates, the shows that people in Maryland or Montreal attend are much like what the people on the West Coast will see and hear as well, with a fairly diverse lineup.
"In booking the tour this year I felt that a diverse line-up was in order. The tour has always been a place to explore and discover new music," Lyman said in a statement. "This year's line-up has old school, emo, punk, screamo, hip-hop, more ska than you have seen in a long time and everything in between. If you're open minded, this will be a great show."
One band making the Boise stop is Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Relatively new on the music scene, this band is seeing their star rapidly rise with the success of their debut release, Don't You Fake It, (the video for the single "Face Down" enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV). The Florida natives are a perfect choice for the tour. They're young, energetic and very current. Bass player Joey Westwood called from his band's tour bus as they were leaving Canada, headed to Chicago for a little downtime. All of the members of the band are from Jacksonville, Fla., but after nearly two straight years on the road, they call the bus home, where, of course, they have a terrific gaming system.
"The Warped Tour hooked us up with an Xbox and Guitar Hero," Westwood said. Who's the best player? "We take it way too far for anyone to be the winner," he said.
When they're not on the Xbox, they're working on new music.
"We're constantly writing new stuff for no other reason than because we love music," Westwood says. "The way we wrote the first record was we all quit school and our jobs and we would just meet at Ronnie's [Winter, lead vocals] trailer five or six days a week. When it comes time to write the next record, we want to do it the same way. We want to stop everything we're doing and hang out with each other every day and make it happen the same way."
He says from the touring to the recording, they just try to take everything step by step.
"It's cool because it keeps us levelheaded. We take it day by day. We're slowly taking the steps to be happy with our band and ourselves."
But it has to be hard to keep it all in check. They went from rehearsing in a trailer to an appearance on the Tonight Show.
"It was crazy," Westwood said. "I remember standing on that stage before they opened the curtain, and the people who worked on the Tonight Show screaming, '60 seconds! 50 seconds!' We were all looking at each other thinking, 'This is about to happen. It's not a dream any more. In five seconds, Jay Leno is going to introduce my band.' We were nervous, but we knew it would be fun."
Another band on this leg of the tour is Poison the Well. Though they've only played the tour once before, in 2003, PTW are old-school veterans of the music scene who've been slinging their hardcore/punk/rock for almost a decade. With their latest release, Versions, PTW has plenty to offer both new and old fans alike. When PTW's 29-year-old guitarist Ryan Primack called Boise Weekly from the band's tour bus as they were readying to cross the border from Montreal back into the States, he said it had been better than he'd hoped for. But when asked how the album is being received, he said it's exactly what he expected.
"It's funny," Primack said. "It's been the same thing for every record we've ever released. The first couple of months it tends to be all the negative feedback [that] comes first but now it's starting to become much more positive."
He says the complaints usually claim that PTW has changed, or the band has aged too much, or the music isn't "mean" enough, but he doesn't really care.
"I don't pay much attention to negative comments that are like, 'I'm mad at you because this doesn't sound like your last record.' I just let that fall to the wayside." He says he understands why people might feel that way, but adds, "If I listened to what people say I should do with songwriting, I'd be the biggest sellout ever because I'd be lying to myself. And if I'm lying to myself, I'm lying to you ... but, I'm so used to the process now, [Versions] being our fourth full-length. It takes people a month or two to get their heads around it. You expect one thing and get a totally different thing. And, on the whole, the record's not the easiest thing [to take in] right away. There's a lot of stuff going on."
When asked if he had any great advice to give some of the other young bands on the tour, Primack said, "I'd encourage people to do whatever it is they want to do and ignore what anybody or any label tells you. We're supposed to be making art. I think that's a lost part of music. Have you noticed the trend lately that records exist because of songs?" He says that an album with 12 tracks may have a few good sons, but most of it is filler. "[Musicians] spend so much less time making a record and so much more time on that one song that's going to hook people."
The Warped Tour has always been a showcase for lesser known bands as well, especially on the Ernie Ball stage. Hailing from Tokyo, Japan, is the teen-girl ska group Oreskaband. With a self-titled debut album released in the United States earlier this month, these girls just want to have fun. Their songs "Monkey Man (Monkey, Monkey Man), "Yeah! Ska Dance" and "Knife and Folk" show they understand that music is a universal language and sometimes how you say something really is more important than what you say.
It's also on the Ernie Ball stage that local bands get a chance to play for crowds the size they probably haven't been in front of before. The band Ambient stopped by Boise Weekly to let us know they'd be joining the lineup, and according to ErnieBall.com, locals Kryterium, Love You Long Time, Saturday Morning Heroes and Mortal Enemy get to add their names to the list of bands who've played this great festival over the years.
The lineup for Warped Tour is always scheduled to change, but it's a pretty safe bet that if you're standing in the Idaho Center Amphitheater on Friday, soaking up the sun and sounds, you'll hear Bad Religion, Tiger Army, Cute Is What We Aim For, Paramore, Coheed and Cambria, Killswitch Engage, Chiodos, New Found Glory, Hawthorne Heights, Pennywise, Circa Survive, Pepper, As I Lay Dying, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Amber Pacific, Flogging Molly and so many more. All of this for around $30? We may just have to change how we look at the number 13.
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Re: J-Stars:オレスカバンドOreskaband
Here's another article that made a slight mention of the band on tour:
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:43 PM US/Western
Review: Warped Tour offered a little something for everyone
By TRAVIS HAY
Special to the Daily Record
Jordan Pundik of New Found Glory performs on the main stage at Warped Tour Saturday. Photos by Travis Hay
GEORGE — Japanese ska music, Hawaiian reggae and Celtic-tinged punk filled the Gorge Amphitheatre Saturday at the 13th annual Vans Warped Tour.
The daylong festival fused together every subgenre of punk rock for nine hours with more than 75 bands spread across nine. Fans took in performances from several venerable punk acts as well as many up-and-coming.
Some of the day’s better sets came from acts on the main stage. Florida group New Found Glory had the kids in the mosh pit jumping and a few who were watching from the hillside dancing too. The band’s set included a playful cover of the saccharinely sweet pop tune “Kiss Me” originally performed by Sixpence None The Richer.
Celtic punks Flogging Molly delivered a solid 30-minute set that kicked off with its hit “Drunken Lullabies” and included a new song titled “Requiem For A Dying Song.” Shortly after Flogging Molly, Hawaiian three-piece Pepper performed playful, sexed-up songs that were more reggae and dub inspired than they were punk rock. The band sound could be described akin to a raunchier version of Sublime.
Another main stage standout was Tennessee group Paramore. This marked the third year for the band on the Warped Tour and the exposure is beginning to pay off. Images of Paramore are all over the covers of magazines and its single “Misery Business” is making waves on radio. Singer Haley Williams, who was full of spunky punk spirit, proved her band is worthy of the hype with a terrific stage presence and solid stage show.
Elsewhere, bands that weren’t on the main stage were fun to watch too. Hardcore punks Gallows were jumping into the crowd and joining a circle pit while playing. And the most interesting musical oddity of the day was Oreska Band, a group of six Japanese girls playing a saxophone, trombone and trumpet in a traditional ska band that featured mostly Japanese lyrics
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J-Stars:オレスカバンドOreskaband
Today, 9/12 is Moriko's birthday.
Also there is a myspace fan group at: http://groups.myspace.com/oreskabandfans
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These have to be some of the nicest girls around. It is also great to see that they play instruments.
Beautiful, talent, Kind - great combination
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Shooting Begins on Oreskaband Movie Musical
Lock and Roll Forever to feature High School Musical alumni
Variety reports that shooting has begun on Lock and Roll Forever, the musical feature starring the six-girl "entertainment ska rock" band Oreskaband. Oreskaband performed ending themes for both Naruto and Bleach, and also performed live in America at the SXSW music festival, Anime Expo 2007, and the Vans Warped Tour. The musical's plot will be a fictional mirroring of the band's rise in America, as members of the band had described it in an ANN interview.
In addition to the six members of Oreskaband, the feature will also star Lucas Grabeel (High School Musical), Ike Barinholtz, Taylor Negron, Brad Dourif and Naoko Nozawa. Another High School Musical alumni, Peter Barsocchini, is writing the script for Chris Grismer to direct. The High School Musical television movie trilogy's Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush will produce for T & C Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan with Arata Matsushima as an executive producer.
Source: ANN & Tokyograph
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On Nov. 12, Leader celebrated her birthday. She blogged about it on their webpage:
Birth day! [LEADER]
I always think that the more people you know, the gladder you are to have been born.
My birthday this year was like a dream. I celebrated it with all the friends I made in Utah. I got an amazing present: a photo of an Oreska show made into a poster with a message from everyone written on it. It was so much like a dream, I couldn't believe it. I couldn't contain all my emotions. I still can't.
I was so happy to celebrate my birthday with Tomi and Moriko and Yaz, and the cast, and the camera crew who were my age. When I think about what they were all thinking as they chose my birthday present, it makes me so happy. I feel so blessed.
And all of you who left messages on our message board...I'm so glad to know all of you. My birthday was a day I remembered just how much I love all the people I've met, and a day I give thanks to my mother who brought me into this wonderful life.
I want to live my 19th year without being afraid of anything, easily, joyfully, honestly and with strength.
I want to make more music with my beloved Oreska Band so that we can really show the wonder of music.
I love you.
Thank you so much for giving birth to me.
I'm so glad I met you all.
No matter how we part, or how far apart we are, I'm glad that I met you.
Thank you.
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Oreskaband is now back in Japan. They were in the US for 3 months. They are finishing up their movie.
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Recent Oreskaband article
Lost in Translation meets High School Musical
Canadian director Chris Grismer has teamed up with High School Musical producers to gamble that an all-teenage-girl ska band from Japan will be the next big thing
GUY DIXON
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
December 19, 2007 at 3:20 AM EST
Most culture seekers have a recurring thing with Japan. Kitsch iconography, street fashion, even teen-tinged pop can turn fascinating, sometimes compulsory after being reimagined by the Japanese.
So leave it to Hollywood producers, with the help of a Canadian director, to tap into that perennial Japanophilia. No less than the producers of the wildly popular High School Musical are behind a plan to turn Oreskaband, an all-girl teenage ska band (of all things) from the southern industrial city of Sakai, Japan. (of all places) into the next big crossover hit on this side of the Pacific.
Already getting noticed on various Japan-culture blogs and websites, Oreskaband couldn't seem further removed from the faux Romeo and Juliet sugar high of Disney's successful High School Musical and its seemingly endless sequels and offshoots. Producers Barry Rosenbush and Bill Borden aren't entirely moving away from the winning formula. After all, there's still the upcoming High School Musical 3 and another film along similar lines, American Mall, due out next year.
But they are trying something different with the feature-film vehicle for Oreskaband titled Lock and Roll Forever, currently in production and scheduled for next summer.
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The movie Lock and Roll Forever is being built around Oreskaband, a real ska band from Sakei, Japan, made up of six girls who met in junior high. (Sony Music Associated Records Inc.)
The six-piece band is a real, working group of energetic musicians still in their teens, including a guitarist, bassist and drummer, and a horn section. The girls met in junior high and already have a sizable following in Japan. They play feel-good ska and, decked out in shiny ties and touches of black and white checkerboard, they're cute (like real girls, though, rather than High School Musical Barbies).
But the band's name, literally “I am ska band,” uses the informal ore, an idiom that a schoolboy would use, not a group of girls. It hints at subtle irreverence, the antithesis of the wide-eyed, sexed-up girlishness of Japanese anime characters or the hyper-exaggerated Little Bo Peep look in Japanese street fashion. But unlike Avril Lavigne and her neckties and skater pose, there's little sexual coyness with Oreskaband.
Rosenbush calls the film A Hard Day's Night meets Lost in Translation. The screenwriter for the High School Musical films, Peter Barsocchini, is also connected with Lock and Roll. But to give it a different feel and ratchet up the hip quotient with anime-style animation scenes and long music segments, the producers have chosen Chris Grismer to direct. The Toronto-based director is known in part for his music videos for Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire and others.
“I didn't have a template,” Grismer says. “They kind of let me go nuts. I got to create all sorts of weird animated sequences and big rock 'n' roll musical numbers [with] real punk rockers. It was a lot of fun.”
As Rosenbush describes it, the story revolves around “six Japanese high-school girls with a big rock 'n' roll dream, whose paths cross with an unscrupulous promoter played by Lucas Grabeel, one of the stars of High School Musical. He says, in an offhand remark when he sees them, ‘Girls, if you ever come to California, I'll make you rock 'n' roll stars.'”
The girls take him at his word; they raise the money, fly to Los Angeles and show up on his Beverly Hills doorstep. “He had no intention of ever seeing them again. And now this rat bastard, unscrupulous rock 'n' roll promoter is stuck with six adorable, hard-playing, rock 'n' roll girls,” Rosenbush says.
“We're going to reach to the same audience that we reached out to [with] High School Musical,” he adds.
And do we already detect spinoffs and sequels? “From your lips to God's ears,” he says hopefully.
But the film also commits a number of Hollywood no-nos: The first portion will be in Japanese with subtitles. And in addition to the anime-style sections, it will include a number of musical scenes that don't propel the plot but simply feature music for its own sake.
And there is one troubling aspect, the title Lock and Roll. It seems to make fun of Japanese English pronunciation right from the start. But that's a quality of the movie Lost in Translation that Grismer says he has been very conscious of avoiding. “That was definitely a consideration. That was how a lot of people felt about Lost in Translation in Japan, that they were being made fun of,” he says. “With this movie, I didn't want to take these girls and do that with them, because you can easily slip into that Jerry Lewis, ‘Me so sah-wy' comedy.”
Not only would that not go over with audiences in Japan, where the film is planned for wide release, it wouldn't be accepted by the pop-culture Japanophiles elsewhere whom the producers seem to want to entice in order to make the film more than High School Musical Goes to Japan.
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