Posting an easy-to-find reference to my in-depth interview with FYTO‘s Kenji Eno about his game, Kimi To Boku To Ritai (translates to ‘You and Me and The Cubes’), his upcoming WiiWare game. It’s out already in Japan, but should hit WiiWare in North America very soon. But who knows with Nintendo? They never tell anyone anything about what’s coming.
The dudes with the grooves that move your shoes.
I’m going to start archiving some of the video interviews I’ve done over the years that I really enjoyed doing, starting with this one, in which I stepped outside of the normal gaming journalist routine, and talked with some of the musicians responsible for Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s most notable games, like Rez and Lumines.
Rez HD: If you own an Xbox 360, you need to have this game.
While I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with plenty of gaming luminaries over the years, being able to talk with some of my favorite musicians, like Ken Ishii and Mondo Grosso –both of whom had never been interviewed by a gaming journalist before– was super cool. This was a great way to talk to them about the music they make, the trends of techno and house music, and their creative inspiration. I think in hindsight, in the realm of game coverage, that this week-long feature we did with Q Entertainment was pretty unique. Then again, this stealth-video (officially) taken inside some of Tokyo’s most popular night clubs was very awesome too. No doubt, that was a very fun, very hot (summertime), very awesome week in Japan.
We couldn’t bring you to Tokyo, so we brought Tokyo to you.
Was watching Chris Botti in Boston last night, and among all of the stars he rolled out to sing some songs (Sting, Steven Tyler, John Mayer, Katharine McPhee) he also had a few guest musicians of the highest caliber, among them Mr. Yo-Yo Ma, who performed an extraordinary piece on cello. But two new talents were revealed to me during my viewing, that of Ms. Sy Smith (cousin of Botti’s guitarist, Mark Whitfield) who ran through a soulful take of Bacharach’s ‘The Look of Love,’ and the other being Lucia Micarelli, the half-Italian, half-Korean violinist who has toured with classic prog-rock veterans, Jethro Tull, and fresh-face operatic wunderkind, Josh Groban (my mother’s favorite). Her performance during the Boston show was intense, passionate, and nuanced. It’s amazing to me to see such a stunning, gifted classical musician in this day and age. You start to think everyone sets out to be some emo rock star, and then WHAM! along comes a musician like Lucia Micarelli or Sy Smith. It’s people like this that add new branches to my own musical interests, which I follow with great pleasure into new avenues previously unexplored.
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