History of "Bamboo Collage" Translated!

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Takahashi Hitomi's second album "Bamboo Collage" was finally completed.
Takahashi thought about the title "collage" from TAKUYA's words, "The album is like a bamboo shoot that grows until 10 AM after the sun rises. If it grows one more hour, it surely is a bamboo. Takahashi's growth is also early like a bamboo shoot, and I think she's become a beautiful bamboo pole. I was able to expand as her producer in this year and a half and it was an interesting year and a half, it'll remain in my memories ~ I think." From these words, the coined word "bamboo" came from "takenoko=bamboo shoot".

"Since recently I like to do photo collages, I thought I'd attach the word collage to it. In this year and a half, I met TAKUYA-san, and had GAGAGASP and various others write music for me. Excluding musicians, there were a lot of people I got to meet through songs. I was able to get various materials and elements from these people, and they were condensed on this album. I think the technique is just like a collage. But, it's lonely when it's collage alone, isn't it sort of a classical feeling? When thinking of a little more mischievious words, listening to TAKUYA-san's comment "it's an album like a bamboo shoot which grows in the early morning", I thought "that's clever!" and "delicious!". Well, I gave respect, and the two were joined and became bamboo collage." (Takahashi)

Singer Takahashi Hitomi and producer TAKUYA's meeting was one and half years ago. It goes back to her 1st album "sympathy" when she performed her first one-man live in April '06 at Shibuya CLUB QUATTRO. Her staff caught a glimpse of her as a rock singer by her live performances...