Kiss Angela Aki goodbye, she's coming back Home

(tags music, artist, mainstream, indies, game)

My iPod runs out of juice after 70 minutes of use. I heard it's supposed to last hours. Hm. Whatever, I actually have a digital FMradio as a backup, and I was totally needing the music fix. I tuned into NHK-FM's MusicSquare program (NHK-FMミュージック･スクエア) at Kobe's 80.1 MHz for the first time, and the special guest for the evening program was Angela Aki (アンジェラ・アキ).

From the gaming perspective, Angela Aki is the singer for the Final Fantasy 12's main theme song, "Kiss Me Good-Bye". But she was on last night to promote her first album, Home. She's pretty interesting singer-songwriter. She mentioned that she was totally carried away by a live performance from Sarah McLachlan back when she was studying in the States, and that she only started studying English when she was 15. She glossed over her indies life but it was funny she mentioned her odd jobs while trying to break out: 1 year stint as a OL, waitress, etc. This year she's busy on many tours and guest events, but one thing that struck me is that she was planning to do a 2 hour live with just a piano. A hot rockin' piano with her fireball mane quivering every which way, but just a piano, nonetheless.

After hearing the sample of her songs, I'm definately going to buy this during the weekend. This will be a break from all those KOTOKO-like and other anime pop theme songs I've been jammin' to recently.