Happy birthday, Hitomi! :D

Indeed, a very happy birthday to her! I hope we can see some pics of her celebrating ^_^

It's her birthday?!
I didn't know
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Hitomi^^

Happy Belated Birthday to Hitomi 4/9/O8 ^^

the movie that the song SMILES is being used for comes out in february 2009, btw. so maybe a single for the fall will come out before that one?

『CROSSOVER III ～Premium meets Premium～』
2008.10.8 release
http://www.avexnet.or.jp/shimatani/r...AVBD-91539.jpg

2008年7月27日に、世界でも有数の美しい響きを誇る浜離宮朝日ホールで行ったCROSSOVER LIVEを完全収録。
楽曲は、昨年の12月5日にリリースされた男性ボーカルの曲を女性目線で解釈して女性からのアンサーソング としての意味を込めた自身初のコンセプト・カヴァーALBUM「男歌」より人気曲をオーケストラバージョン にして収録。
更に、スペシャルコンテンツには、リハーサル映像にコンサート後のインタビューを加えたスペシャル・ドキュ メンタリー映像を収録。
［2008/9/5 update!］


CROSSOVER III　～Premium meets Premium～
2008.10.8 release
【DVD】
AVBD-91539
価格：4,800円

【収録曲】
01. 月の裏で会いましょう～LET'S GO TO THE DARKSIDE OF THE MOON～
02. 愛の詩
03. 言葉にできない
04. レイニーブルー
05. Another Orion
06. One more time,One more chance
07. 幸せな結末
08. 恋しくて
09. キャンディ
10. Salvia
11. 恋水-tears of love-
12. 亜麻色の髪の乙女
13. 悲しみにさよなら
14. 泣きたいなら
15. 奏
16. I will
17. 雨の日には雨の中を 風の日には風の中を

【Special Contents】
Special Documentary of CROSS OVER III

Is that a new song?

^ No, it's track 6 from Shimatani's 男歌〜cover song collection〜.

For those fans who have been out of the loop of hitomi's current career, I've just posted an article about her 2009 schedule at Channel-Ai blog. Her 10th anniversary sounds quite exciting!

^
Thanks for alerting us! I love the articles on that blog, they are very well written and balanced so that everyone can enjoy reading them either as an introduction or as another view always to be accounted for on a song. :yes The only thing I don't like about the blog is that it's updated way too seldom. ;)

I could use to get into the shimatani look. I quite like ame no, but other than that I haven't really heard many shimatani songs I like after shinku. I used to buy her albums like ayu's but sadly she's fallen into the "occasional" artist files for me. Hope her 10th will be amazing!"

Yes that's true. That's like my first article in 6 months x.x I've been quite busy lately unfortunately and I wasn't too crazy over the recent J-Pop releases. I'll try to be more active. The others have slowed down a little too. Anyway thanks for the compliment :)

I've also lost some interest in her, since her style got too typical or mellow. So I am hoping she'll shine soon!

i hope a new single will be released in early 2009. that'd probbably be SMILES.

She's scheduled to release SMILES in Feb 2009.

that's perfect, then! i wonder how the song sounds.

Thanks for the update Demure Dusk!

CD Japan is doing a CD Clearance again!!
So here we go:




> Otoko Uta - cover song collection [CD+DVD / Jacket A]
2895yen (20% off) !

Might interest someone. I'm translating her blog in Crossover. She blogs so much!

i see some of her blogs on JPM. i need to go on crossover more often! :P

Yes sometimes her blog entries are pretty funny. I like them because many fans feel disconnected when she stopped releasing for a while. And it would make me really happy to see you around crossover :D

Sorry for the double post, but I thought some of you might be interested. Crossover is looking for two new moderators. If you are interested you can apply to nominate yourself or someone else for this post. 2009 should be an exciting year for Hitomi so I do hope to have a great team to keep up with her activities next year!