Japanese Dreams (1 of 6) ~おぼくり ええうみ Obokuri Eeumi~

These are traditional Japanese songs. This concert was held at Berklee College of Music on October 30, 2007.

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[larynxist]

Nice job, such an expressive and deep voice. but it would be perfect if you waited about fifty years and sang it as a old woman. it kinda needs the scratchy timbre of an old voice.

[Sevilou]

It's Okinawa Island song, she sings about how people were starting to live there (short overall review of mine).

I'm hypnotized everytime I listen to this song and thinking of things that ussually I don't think of.

Great cover.

[kimchiikim]

@benxgov true but it doesnt "come from" champloo...the original singer is renowned japanese folk singer and this is one of her renditions of a traditional song...champloo used it but didnt create it....having said that...champloo OST is beautiful music

[benxgov]

"...traditional Japanese songs"

This is ANIME Music! You don't have to dress up or disguise that fact. Haters gonna hate. If something moves you, it doesn't matter where it comes: You shouldn't give a damn how people will perceive you.

Champloo has literary merit. It ain't like you singing Death Note music.

[Appeleater]

just Ikue Asazaki has the perfekt voice for this song

[BloodyFandango]

@BrokenImperfect

It isn't supposed to be haunting, and reflective on death, it's supposed to be about longing, for things to come, and for things to happen. Think of it more as her laying on the grass with her lover who, because of the times they live in is unable to spend time with her often, looking at the stars, telling him what she wants in the future knowing it may never come, and then quietly reflecting that she wishes the clouds would roll over the moon and give them her perfect moment.

[BloodyFandango]

@BrokenImperfect

Wait... What? A frail old woman reflecting on her long life is the opposite of what this song means. This song is about a girl fantasising about a future life with her husband, searching for new lands for them to settle and live their lives together, celebrating the construction of their house, wondering what she'll wear and finally, wishing that she could spend a perfect moment half bathed in the moonlight with him.

[nocturnalillusion]

Beautiful, Just beautiful.

Dont ever quit

[sorcress18]

@BrokenImperfect

That style of music is something you have to be trained in, so there wouldn't be any way for her, especially so young, to get that roughness in her voice.

[demonfelix]

I like the youthful contrast to Asazaki's old woman version. Variety is the spice of art.

[screwwormlocc16]

ms asazaki is the 1 and only.. its her song, so with that being said.. nobody can copy, only modify.. but this other chick is ok..

[hyonimarru]

@SuicidalGirl1234 what you said is so true, its just one of those songs that can truly be mastered by one person and others can only put their different interpretations of it and that doesn't mean that the other versions are bad or anything(well ok some might be bad) but I think she does justice to the song :-)