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Music

「新曲モラトリアム日本語版」

TRACK	TITLE
1	Your Song
2	ワンダーフォーゲル
3	FAIRWAY
4	Raven
5	星に願いを
6	プラスチックルームと雨の庭
7	Be My Last
8	波動
9	月に負け犬
10	DESTRUCTION BABY
11	コトノハ

About this album

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.