A painting by Vincent van Gogh titled Wheat Field with Crows. It features his signature chunky brushstrokes. A field of yellow wheat fills the bottom of half of the long, rectangular canvas, while a dark blue sky with what appear to be two moons or maybe too clouds fills the upper half. There are many black M shapes in the sky representing crows.

exist†trace – Psychedelic Black Night

On December 29, 2022 By scalesoflibraIn TranslationLeave a comment

This song first appeared on Royal Straight Magic and was also included on the Western release Neo Japanese Heroine. Given the time of year and the title, I was thinking it would be fitting for Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve. But I digress. On the occasion of that Western release, miko posted to her blog in English …

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The CD and liner notes for the Setsuzoku Records release NEO JAPANESE HEROINE.

exist†trace — BLAST

On May 29, 2022September 25, 2022 By scalesoflibraIn Translation1 Comment

With the release of the compilation album NEO JAPANESE HEROINE, I wanted to do more of the tracks that are on that album specifically. Hence why today I jump to "BLAST," the last track on THIS IS NOW. Songs like this that have a lot of English interspersed can actually be harder to translate, because …

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