OMODAKA Live Report

Last week OMODAKA played an amazing set at Saitone’s CD release party for his new album, Overlapping Spiral. Since Saitone is a chiptune set artist, OMODAKA played a chiptune set.

Here are some highlights of the show. OMODAKA wipped out a Nintendo DS which featured a custom built software where he played the melody with his touch pen for the DS. He came down from the stage to show the audience how to use it. The interface had a keyboard that he would use to play the melody with. Of course the emitted sound was pure 8bit and went perfectly with the music. OMODAKA was wearing a Miko (a traditional Japanese garb worn at a shrine by a female attendant). Miko’s bottom is red and the top is white. He also wore a mask and a wig. The Miko is usually only wore by women. Soichi Terada’s partner in crime Kanazawa Akiko was not there but that didn’t stop him from picking up a mic and belching out her brand of minyo/enka lyrics. This was all stage presence and he was just lip syncing for added performance. However, he held a device of some sort of touch pad which he used to distort her voice. Everytime he touched the pad it would distort her voice in a new sporadic way. He finished the show with the main line from jingle bells punched out on the Nintendo DS. Here is a setlist from the night:

last christmas

dig dug

yosawya san

kokiriko bushi (PSP ver.)

cantata no.147

honjou oiwake

kokiriko bushi

Ben Sheppee from Light Rhythm Visuals provided the visual entertainment during his set.