IMARi ToNES

New songs movies and CDBaby

IMARi ToNES — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:32:01 -0000

Hi this is Tone from IMARi ToNES.

We uploaded some movies of our new songs.

We played at Club Wild Side Tokyo, on Oct 3rd and we played 2 of our new songs which we are now practicing hard.

They are called "Testimony" and "Precious".
Here are the movies.

Testimony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3NlMitAXEI

Precious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOk0e2Yd7dE

Since I'm a Japanese, I still sing wrong lyrics when playing live and singing in English.
But I hope you enjoy these movies.

At this point we have learned 9 out of 13 songs we are planning to record.
We are gonna start recording as soon as we are ready.

One more thing is,
Our latest effort, called "Welcome To The School" is now available on CDBaby.

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/ImariTones

This record is a fairytale in which we tried to depict a relationship between human and God, and we tried to depict the importance of Faith and Spiritual Growth.
Including those songs we often play live, like "Only One Wish", "First Pop" and "i love you, now ur on your own".

Also available on iTunes Store and other digital retailers.
Please check it out.

Thank you and God bless,
Tak "Tone" Nakamine / IMARi ToNES

Street Team Recruiting

IMARi ToNES — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:07:12 -0000

Hi this is Tak from IMARI TONES.

We are now preparing for new recording.
(See this blog I just posted.)
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=1000349463&blogId=507998335

This email is for those who registered as "Street Team" at our Reverbnation mailing list.

Though Reverbnation has "Street Team" system, we have not been using it so much until now.

But now we think it's time to start something.
Because in this situation of today's music business, putting effort in internet marketing is very important.
As you see we are just a small band from Japan. So self advertising effort is inevitable at this phase of career and we know it works. I myself have put a lot of time to do this "Internet Advertising" like MySpace, Purevolume and imeem. So we want you to help us with some of these.

We want to make this street team mission more like personal a relationship between you and us. It's not like the band and its street team, but we ARE a team working together.
So we want you to work with us together on the internet and real world.

For those who help us, as a compensation, we want to share our music together, for totally free.
When we make music, when some songs are done, sometimes we share the song files just mixed with our close friends. And say "Hey, we just mixed these songs. What do you think?"
While we want some opinion and feedback from them, it's also our joy to share those music with our friends.

So, we want you guys to be our friends.

The tasks we are thinking are;
*Creating IMARi ToNES street team MySpace and imeem
*Recruiting new fans on Facebook
*Recruiting new fans on Purevolume
and so on.

Please reply this email or send email to mail@imaritones.net if you are willing to work with us. And let's talk about what we can do.
It's not a hard job. Just give us a little bit of your time. And if each of you help us a little bit, it will be a big power just like "Genki Dama" (Do you like Dragon Ball?).

Hope we will hear from you and we are looking forward to working with you.

Tak "Tone" Nakamine / IMARi ToNES (Japan)
http://www.imaritones.net/
http://www.myspace.com/imaritones

New Recording Blueprint

IMARi ToNES — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:50:53 -0000

Hi, this is Tak from IMARI TONES.

After we came back from the USA tour in April 2009, next thing we did is to plan a new recording.
We could plan another tour, we could plan joining some festival, we could plan a new marketing scheme, but we thought we have to create another record first.

Why? Because the Lord gave us some new ideas!
We know we should create More Christian, More Beautiful, More Rockn'Roll album.

So we want you to know what we are working on now.

Here is the blueprint.

"God Rocks" (Temporary Title)

1. Testimony
2. Precious
3. A Girl in the Mirror
4. Oriental Worship
5. One on One
6. I Want a Revival

7. God Kids
8. The Wandering Savior
9. Simple
10. A Bow and an Arrow
11. Love is to do something no one dares to do
12. Forget

13. Faith Rider

It looks good, doesn't it?
We are now doing reharsals hard.
We are going to start recording as soon as we're ready and we expect the completion early next year (2010), before Spring.
That's when we are going to start our full-scale attack!

We can't wait to share these songs with you all!!

"Welcome To The School" and Free download

IMARi ToNES — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:13:43 -0000

Hi this is Tak "Tone" from IMARI TONES.

Today we have some updates.

1."Welcome To The School", now available on iTunes store.
Yeah, that's it.
"Only One Wish", "He's Still With Us", "i love you, now ur on your own", those songs now you can download to your audio player.

And here is the link.
http://www.songcastmusic.com/redirect2?id=319921119

Also available on amazonmp3, emusic, and other.
Please wait a little bit more for physical CDs.

2."First Pop" free download available
Actually you don't even have to pay.
"Fist Pop", this is one of our favorite song.
I don't know why but people from Microsoft Windows are doing some music distributing program and because of that, you can download this song for free.
I don't know how long they're gonna run this program, so download it while you can!!

http://www.myspace.com/windows?homepage=imaritones

3.We are writing new songs
We are already taking a next step ahead.
Many songs and lyrics already written.
And our next work will be MUCH MORE Christian.
We hope we can record those songs somewhere in the rest of this year.

4.Internet Radio
Yes, after we came back from our tour in USA, our days here in Japan are full of fun.
because now we are making friends with many Christian Musicians here in Tokyo.
Actually this year it's been 150 years since Protestant Christianity arrived in Japan.
Yeah it's time to change. We are ready.
And in this internet radio program, I'm having fun with some of those gospel musicians.

"Tone's Shall We Talk About Love"
May Guest: Saluki (Christian Rockn'Roll)
June Guest: Kaori Yamamoto (Gospel Singer)
July Guest: ISA (Bossa nova gospel singer) (Will be uploaded on July 23rd)

Check it out here, only if you understand Japanese....
http://www.tokyonetradio.com/ch/tone.html

5.Shows
We are gigging around Tokyo this summer.
So check us out!

July 18th
Shibuya Club Asia P

July 20th
Yokohama, Sakuragicho Station
Scheduled around 2PM

July 25th
Chiba, Motoyawata Route Fourteen

August 13th
Sangenjaya Heavens Door

August 28th
Chiba, Motoyawata Third Stage

September 23th
Shin Okubo Suizokukan

That's all for today!
Thank you and God bless you all!!

IMARi ToNES (Japan)
http://www.imaritones.net/
http://www.myspace.com/imaritones

Nashville show, audio download

IMARi ToNES — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:28:35 -0000

Okay, so this is the recording of our Nashville show, April 10th.
It was one of the best show in this tour.
(Little Rock and Seattle was also good. But Little Rock we had no recording and Seattle we didn't use our own equipments.)

http://kitchenknife.music.coocan.jp/Its_live_090411_Nashville_mgttd128.mp3
It's around 48MB. 128Kbps mp3 file.
Feel free to download if you have a fast internet connection.

But anyway we will upload videos of the shows to MySpace and YouTube sometime soon.

Thank you,
God bless,
-Tak

USA Tour Finished!

IMARi ToNES — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:27:04 -0000

Hi this is Tak (Tone).

Our first time in USA tour is now finished!
We are back in Japan!
Sorry it took us so long to upload blog and photos.
(See some photos here http://imaritones.slide.com/ )

It was our first time playing shows in USA.
And the tour was very successful.

We want to say thank you to everybody.
And hope we can see you again soon!

Here is short summary of what we did in USA.

Dallas TX (April 3-5)
We played 1 song at ICC Dallas (Japanese church)
And finally, Tak got baptized.
(yeah it's been a year and 3 months Tak accepted Jesus and became christian, it was a good timing and opportunity.)
It was such a blessing and we all had a good time.

We stayed at our friend Ken's house.
They had a party for us and we could talk with many friends and pastors.
It was wonderful time and Jake made a big cake for that party.
It tasted so good now he is called "Cake"!

We met some Japanese christian musicians there at ICC.
Hope we can do something together in Japan!

Thank you, Ken-san, Oscar-san, and everybody at ICC!!

Austin TX (April 6)
Actually it was 2nd time for Tak to visit Austin.
He was there in 2007 SXSW.
He didn't play in official slot. He just visited there but he played outside on the 6th street, with his guitar alone and made 30 bucks.
And finally we got official gig in Austin.
We played at club called Headhunters. It was nice place.
We had some trouble. Jake didn't understand how to construct his drumset. Just 1 hour before the show, he noticed he needs to drill drums to attach the hardware. (In Japan we don't have to. Because in Japan usually everything is already attached and ready.)
But soundguy/booking manager (he was a bassist of a well known hardcore band, by the way) was so kind and he did all the drilling work and we managed to assemble the drumkit just before the showtime.

Because there was no time for soundcheck, it was not a best condition and Tak's voice was not good, but his guitar shredding was as good as usual.
In the end we got very good responce from the people!

Next morning we took some photos on 6th Street.
Hope we can come back there in some festival!

Houston TX
On April 7th, we visitted Fukuko-san's house.
There was a bible study meeting of ICC Houston there.
We joined them and Tak played 2 worship songs with an acoustic guitar.
We stayed at Fukuko-san's house. It was very nice, thank you Fukuko&Brian-san.
Tak jammed with Brian-san a bit, it was fun.

On April 8th, we played at Super Happy Fun Land, downtown Houston.
It was a very cool venue.
We played with Bows & Arrows, 10th Grade Cutie. They were all good.
10th Grade Cutie was a real punk rock. We digged it so much.
I heard many people were supposed to come that night because they put the show on some newspaper. Actually crowd was not that big but none the less it was a fun and happy night!
Yes, Super Happy Fun Land rocks!

Little Rock AR, April 9th
We drived for 8 hours and we came to Little Rock AR.
What a pretty town!
Downtown was not so big but everything was so art&pretty!
We all liked the town.

Weather was not good.
During our show, outside was a thunderstorm.
But the show itself was a thunderstorm, too!
We did a very hot show that night.

Cool part of the show was when one guy came to the stage and offered me(Tak) a shot of whisky.
I tried to avoid drinkin the whole shot but people all shoutted like "go ahead and drink the whole shot!", so that's what I did! And people went crazy.

When I played last song of the set I was feeling a little drunk but it was a hot night!!
We love Little Rock!
I think we played Big Rock there!

Nashville TN, April 10.
Again weather was not good.
The guy from the venue told us it's lucky we were alive because we had come through tornado.

But the Nashville show was one of the best.
Mr.Wakaisenshi gave us his original T-shirts specially made for us!!
It was a big pleasure and it gave us a lot of power.
We did a very good show and recieved very good response. Sold many CDs.

We also met Whisper Of The Garden, who is a great singer and plays christian music.
Next morning, we and Whisper and her manager CC had a breakfast together, talking about christianity in Japan and lots of things.
It was a good time.

Around Nashville, there were some mountains and forrests. It looked somehow like Japan. Yes, Nashville, we felt something special. We will come back diffenetely.

Atlanta GA, April 11&12
After having a breakfast with Whisper Of The Garden, we went to Chattanooga.
And there we met Pastor Butch Varner.
He was in Japan before for a long time and he is eager to spread gospel in Japan.
We talked about lots of things and also about his plan of coming to Japan this year. Yes, we are willing to help him in Japan!

By the way there we ate some humbergers at Red Robin. Wow it was very good, possibly the best humberger we ever had. (Because in Japan we have only McDonald's.)

Until this time it turned out that our show in Atlanta was cancelled because of the venue was closing down. Well, hard luck, but this kind of things sometime happens.

So we went directly to Naoko's house. Naoko-san was a friend of Jake's.
She and Jake had met here in Yokohama, Japan.
And she was a christian too.

We were kind of dissapointed because of the cancellation of the show.
But Naoko-san called the pastor of Japanese church in Atlanta and now they would let us play some music in their church!
Yeah, we were very excited! Thanks, Naoko-san!

April 12th, it was Easter Sunday.
We joined Easter Worship at Westminster Japanese Church in Atlanta and played 2 worship songs.
It was such a pleasure to play in a church on Easter Sunday.
Thank you everybody there!

After that, we went to the Stone Mountain and did some sightseeing.

New York City, April 13-15
On April 13th, in the morning we sent our amplifers and equipments to Ken-san.
Because in New York City and Seattle, we don't have to bring our amplifers.
That means when we do our next tour, we start from Dallas TX again.

Anyway, we flew to NYC.
We stayed at some hostel owned by Japanese. There were only Japanese people stayed there, so it's kind of funny.

On April 14th we played at Otto's Shrunken Head in East Village.
We met a Japanese drummer, he played in other band that night.

And our show, it took a while to get everything right on stage, but after all everything was great! We had a good responce and had a good time.
We met Pastor Richy there.
He was a music industry person. Working with many big musicians.
So it's great thing he liked us and offered us a help.
Maybe he can help us when we visit NYC next time.
We wish we could stay longer, so that we can play Pastor Richy's church on Sunday.
Thank you very much, pastor Richy!

On April 15th, we did all the sightseeing. Because it was 1st time visitting NYC for us. We went to Times Square, Broadway, Central Park, East Village, Battery Park and Statue Of Liberty, and we walked and crossed the Brooklyn Bridge.
After all those sightseeing we were all tired but we again met Pastor Richy and did some business talk. Great, hope it works!

On April 16th, I got a phonecall from Mr.Locke from OURS (the band based in NYC), because last year I met him in Utah in a film festival. He was very nice person. But unfortunately this was a day we had to leave NYC. But thanks Mr.Locke!

Seattle WA, April 16-19.
So Seattle, personally for me(Tak) it's 2nd time visitting this city.
This city is beautiful and pretty. We all love Seattle.
On the first day we stayed at cheap hostel near the Pike Place.
We had sent our posters there beforehand, and when we arrived, lo and behold they put our posters all over the place. We were very glad!

We stayed in Seattle for 3 days and it was very lucky we didn't see any rain during our stay. We saw only blue sky. It's very lucky in Seattle isn't it?

April 17th, after we did some sightseeing, including Pike Place Market, 1st Starbucks, Space Needle, we went to the venue.
Again it was very cool venue, it was located in Georgetown and there were lots of crazy people around there partying on the street. Very artistic vibe.

Luckily we had some Japanese audience there. And it was one of the best show, too. Seattle rocks!!

We met Leiko-san and Rae-san. They were very cool people.

On April 18th, Leiko&Rae-san picked us up early morning and we went to Japanese Church in Tacoma.
There we joined worship and Tak plaed 1 worship song with an accoustic guitar.

After that Leiko&Rae-san we drove back to Seattle and did all the sightseeing.
Shawn (Hardison) gave us a Live Recording CD-R from the previous night show. Thanks Shawn!
We went to Washinton University district and Fremont and Capitol Hill. It was fun!
And we had tea at the restaurant by the river near the university bridge with Leiko&Rae-san and their friends. Thanks!

We stayed at Leiko&Rae-san's house, we jammed together with Rae-san in his garage. It was fun! And we had wine and sake and we had fun all night!

And after that, we flew back to Japan!!

All throught the tour, we had great help from Japanese churches and Japanese Christian people. We are very thankful and grateful for that. Thank you for all the people.

And we personally want to say big thanks to Ken-san.
Without her help, this tour was not possible.

We have made friends with some Japanese Christian artists and American pastors willing to come to Japan.
So our next step is to team up with those people and make a big movement in Japan. Yes that's what we will do.

And since this tour was succesful, we want to make it bigger and happier next time.
Things are just starting to move ahead. And we are going to keep them moving.

So guys, see you again soon!!

Tak (Tone) / IMARi ToNES

Bad News, Atlanta show cancelled

IMARi ToNES — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:18:15 -0000

Hi this is Tak "Tone" from IMARi ToNES, Japan.
A bad news, really sorry to tell you this but our show in Atlanta, scheduled on April 11, was cancelled due to the venue closing down. Mmm... it looks like economy is really bad all around the world.

We are now looking for another venue but there is only little time left.
Anyway we will try our best.

Taking this opportunity,
Can I tell you one more thing we want you to know at this time?

Last year we recorded our first Christian theme album "Welcome To The School".
And earlier this year, we signed with Empty Vessel Music.
It's a cool Christian record label who is trying to do good causes in society.

We don't want to keep you waiting, and it's easy for us to release the record on iTunes and CDbaby, but please wait.
Because Empty Vessel Music is non profit label trying to make a difference and they have their plan.
They sure will release our music sooner or later.

We will notify you when it happens!

Thank you,
Hope my English is correct and....God Bless!

Tak / IMARi ToNES

"Kodomo Metal" on iTunes!

IMARi ToNES — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:17:07 -0000

Yes IMARi ToNES has its unknown history of recording many songs independently.
Even before the band member-lineup was completed.

So here we present "Kodomo Metal", which means, "Metal for kids"!

Recorded almost 10years ago, but every musician and music reviewer gets surprised with its totally unique metal/grunge/whatever sound with crazy ideas.

Songs you got to try: Sou, Kosei, Minorities, I'm fish.
Song we still/currently play live: Big World

Yes now we call ourselves a christian band, but this "Kodomo Metal" is purely a explosion of crazy creativity.
I'm afraid all the lyrics are in japanese but hope you enjoy!

Check "Kodomo Metal" on iTunes here.
http://www.songcastmusic.com/albums?zoom_query=34653

That's all for today!
Thank you and we love you, God bless,
May the Lord be with you and may the good sound be with you!!

Tak / IMARi ToNES (Japan)

One more show added! Little Rock AR

IMARi ToNES — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:41:48 -0000

We are now practicing hard for the upcoming tour in US.
As we decide which direction to drive our car, one more show is added.

April 9th (Thursday)
Little Rock AR
Sticky Fingerz
http://www.stickyfingerz.com/
107 S COMMERCE ST LITTLE ROCK, AR 72201
$5

Yes, so there will be 4 shows in 4 days, in a row.
Oh my god we're gonna die!?
It seems like we like to push ourselves hard so much.
Yeah, harder the better.

Anyway, again, here is the detail so far.

"Rock, Faith, Anime Tour 2009"

April 5th (Sun)
International Christian Church, Dallas TX
(This is a Worship, not a gig. just 1 song worship.)
http://www.iccdallas.org/

April 6th (Mon)
Headhunters, Austin TX
http://www.headhuntersclub.com/
720 RED RIVER STREET AUSTIN, TEXAS 78701
Details, TBA

April 8th (Wed)
Super Happy Fun Land, Houston
http://www.superhappyfunland.com/
$7, All ages show
3804 Polk Street, Houston TX 77003
w/ 10th Grade Cutie, Bows & Arrows

April 9th (Thursday)
Little Rock AR
Sticky Fingerz
http://www.stickyfingerz.com/
107 S COMMERCE ST LITTLE ROCK, AR 72201
$5

April 10th (Fri)
Music City Bar, Nashville TN
http://www.musiccitybar.com/
2416 Music valley Drive Nashville, TN 37214
IMARi ToNES 9:30-10:15PM
No cover
We open for Molding

April 11th (Sat)
East Atlanta Icehouse, Atlanta GA
http://www.eastatlantaicehouse.com/
543 Flat Shoals Avenue SE, Atlanta, GA 30316
$7
w/Besides Daniel, Mr.Citizen

April 14th (Tue)
Otto's Shrunken Head, NYC
http://www.ottosshrunkenhead.com/
538 East 14th St. NYC 10009
No Cover
IMARi ToNES 22:00-22:45
w/peter knoll, MAYDAY RADIO

April 17th (Fri)
The Mix, Seattle WA
http://www.myspace.com/mixseattle
6006 12th Ave S. 17, Seattle, WA 98108
$7
w/ Laguna!, Hardison

We really want to see you there!

Tak / IMARi ToNES

Houston show confirmed again!!

IMARi ToNES — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:17:35 -0000

Okay, so we have been trying to find other venue to fill the date cancelled by Scout Bar Houston.
And now we have found one and it's confirmed.

April 8th (Wed), Super Happy Fun Land, Houston
$7, All ages show
3804 Polk Street, Houston TX 77003
http://www.superhappyfunland.com/

Sounds fun! We are looking forward to it.

So here is the whole tour date so far.

"Rock, Faith, Anime Tour 2009"

April 5th (Sun)
International Christian Church, Dallas TX
(This is a Worship, not a gig.)
http://www.iccdallas.org/

April 6th (Mon)
Headhunters, Austin TX
http://www.headhuntersclub.com/
720 RED RIVER STREET AUSTIN, TEXAS 78701

April 8th (Wed)
Super Happy Fun Land, Houston
http://www.superhappyfunland.com/
$7, All ages show
3804 Polk Street, Houston TX 77003

April 10th (Fri)
Music City Bar, Nashville TN
http://www.musiccitybar.com/
2416 Music valley Drive Nashville, TN 37214

April 11th (Sat)
East Atlanta Icehouse, Atlanta GA
http://www.eastatlantaicehouse.com/
543 Flat Shoals Avenue SE, Atlanta, GA 30316

April 14th (Tue)
Otto's Shrunken Head, NYC
http://www.ottosshrunkenhead.com/
538 East 14th St. NYC 10009
IMARi ToNES 22:00-22:45

April 17th (Fri)
The Mix, Seattle WA
http://www.myspace.com/mixseattle
6006 12th Ave S. 17, Seattle, WA 98108

Hope to see you soon!!

Tak / IMARi ToNES