Kaori's Hi-Fi

First time I heard Belle and Sebastian was last Christmas. I was back in Scotland for holiday and was visiting my friend Susan. When we sat in the front room, she played a CD saying this is a new band and very good. It was dark cold night, snow falls on the ground and on the pavement. After I listened whole "if you're feeling sinister" album by Belle and Sebastian, I was completely enchanted by their music. I felt their music is something like mixing Carlos Jobin's ennui and dry cynicism from those 50'S-early60'S British Film like "Prime of Ms. Brody", "Taste of Honey", "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning", "Georgy Girl" and American Beatnik literatures in a very beautifully made but also very frgile Venetian glass flask. In UK, they already released 2 albums and 3 singles. A very first album, "Tigermilk" was released limited number only in UK and very hard to get nowadays. You have no difficulties getting their materials in UK. In Japan, as far as I know Tower Records is getting Belle and Sebastian singles at their stores quicker than other shops like HMV, Virgin. Virgin stores in Tokyo is the most hopeless. They don't have good selection of alternative CDs. In Japan, Belle and Sebastian is recognised as a very stylish band and every clitic you can see in Japan, they all start saying "Belle and Sebastian, a new sparkling star from Glasgow and being said as the minstrels of modern times" No exeption, every on of them stars with this line even at the record shop's recomendation clip on the CD rack. I really love Belle and Sebastian, it's OK listening them at home but I couldn't like them on Walkman for everyday's journey to work. I felt those train rush hour and seeing tired out office people in a similar clothes are too realistic to listen to Belle and Sebastian. Anyway, if you are interested, check out their official fan club site!

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