I think there are 2 types of popular music, endemic and ubiquitous. For example, Brigitte Fontaine is endemic. Her music is exclusively found in France like folklore. On the other hand, Françoise Hardy is ubiquitous. This kind of music is extending over the world and nobody knows the origin of this international format. In the same manner, Stina Nordenstam is unique in Sweden and the Cardigans has a cosmopolitan distribution. Of course, this sorting has nothing to do with artistic evaluation, and I guess it might be related to translatability. As for Japanese music scene, I would like to insist that HALCALI is endemic. To begin with, the band name “HALCALI” is very Japanese. It is the combination of members’ names, Halca (Haruka) and Yucali (Yukari). Do you know any other band whose name is portmanteau word like this? Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel cannot stand the unit name like “Simofunkel”. But Japanese linguistic magic turns everything into shortened form with 4 syllables. ...
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