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新​曲​モ​ラ​ト​リ​ア​ム​日​本​語​版 (Shinkyoku Moratorium Nihongohan)

by Eponymous 4

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Your Song 03:44
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FAIRWAY 04:19
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Raven 04:05
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Be My Last 04:37
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Sheet music publishers in the US may go as far as publishing tablatures or piano arrangements of only the biggest hitmakers. But scoring an entire recording? Let alone a full album? Of even obscure independent bands? That’s where Japan has the US beat.

When my fascination with popular music from Japan first burgeoned, I would order “band scores” from online booksellers just to get the lyrics of my favorite songs Romanized. Having a full arrangement of said songs was certainly an added bonus.

Armed with such knowledge, a Japanese cover album was inevitable. In fact, it was almost derailed when I couldn’t track down scores to a few tracks. (For that, I had to lean on my ear and scores of “cover” videos on Youtube.)

Perhaps it’s less a cover album and more a karaoke album. Where possible, I stuck to the arrangements on hand and tried not to inject too much outside influence on the songs.

-- GB, 2020

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released October 30, 2020

Produced and engineered by Greg Bueno

Recorded in the Closet, 2009-2012, Austin, TX and the Closet West 2013, 2020, Seattle, WA

Cover design by Greg Bueno

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Eponymous 4 Seattle, Washington

Eponymous 4 is the home studio project of Greg Bueno, a lapsed musician and web developer or a lapsed developer and web musician. It depends.

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