It’s a memorial first album.
It may sound exaggerated, but this debut album had gave music listeners in Japan the biggest impact in 21st century.
On September, 2001, it was Okinawa area limited edition. 50,000 copies sold in instant. Most of the major record companies showed up in Okinawa for a deal. And most
of them expected the band to leave Okinawa and live in Tokyo for convenience reasons.
But they chose to stay in their hometown.
It’s a fresh album; its straightforward sound spreads wide and far. Has any of the debut album so far has the naturally talented in blending Rock, Rap, male and female vocal?
The answer must be no. All 7 songs have their feeling inside. Their masterpiece songs include “White Beach” which still is their representative song. “Ocean” which describes the scenery of the ocean and sky blends together with shiny daylight.
The song which was written in 99 called “Sotetsu” is nothing like those songs written by
bands in the city side. You can find 90’s Japanese music influence in the English song “My Life”. Many people were surprised to hear that “Tabidachi” was made in their middle school year.
One of the styles of music that is characteristic in the late 90’s was so called “mixture”. It was a “mixture” of Hip Hop and Rock. Word “Hip Hop Road” appears in HY’s song “Kakumei” and the introduction of the band said “the mixture band from Gusikawa, Yakena!!”
For HY, the word “mixture” is not just the music genre, but it is the whole idea of
cross cultural background that the Okinawa has in its island character.
In Okinawa dialect, “Champru”(meaning “mixed”) rock is what we find in this very album.
No professionals and staffs in Tokyo were participated in the process of making this album. The whole process; including setting up instruments and amps were just like the live shows they have done on streets.
We would like to assert that it was the hometown that made this album so characteristic. Where they are born and raised with Okinawa culture.
The phrase to describe the album was: “From Okinawa, releasing prior to the world!!”
This is where it all started…the beginning…