I met a punk band consists a guy bass guitar player, a lady drummer and a female guitar vocalist in early this month in Cambridge. They are the Ettes who just released their new record couple days before the 3rd city Cambridge for their new record celebrating tour. Well, I'm kinda still suspecting what I had touched then, that night with the band and their friends to have sharing each stories for each others. Keep tuning for that, I will let announce when I'm done it on my English blog.
At this time, my twitter friend has translated the Ettes' daytrotter session article to Japanese, which is probably the Ettes' debut session at Daytrotter I think. We were sharing people. So to do that.
The Ettes / debut Daytrotter session"The Boot's Got The Upper Hand"
タイトルの意味/解釈は、いうなれば、
「そのブーツはこき下ろす武器にもなるだろう。」
みたいな感じでしょうか（笑）
Click the above draw going to Japanese Translation↑
"The Boot's Got The Upper Hand"
Session released on Jul 29, 2011
Words by Sean Moeller
Illustration by Johnnie Cluney
Recording engineered by Mike Gentry
Japanese Translated by Teshi (@Teshi1988) on Saturday July 30th 2011
On/According to the last article post that I wrote yesterday, Dan Mangan's "Journal of A Narcoleptic" was my encounter song with him and I translated it in Japanese lately. Then found my old worked the other song of his called "Road Regrets" off the record called "Nice, Nice, Very Nice!" in 2009. I'm just reattaching that translation that I have done so far.
I have switched to roll the host of Wye Oak's fan community page on Japanese SNS mixi couple months ago. But I have been missed their coming Boston show couple times so far since I become into their music. And for the fan page, Japanese fans or new fans, this might be a first touch with WO for them. This is sort of their old school though, I still like this session. Therefore no worries to have assessed by this session.
If you've been missed this session, this is the time. It's released in fall 2008 and they released too awesome new full length album last year some of you might know. I hope they will have new daytrotter session released soon.
*Well, I have a friend mr. @Teshi1988 who follows constantly newer sessions on Daytrotter so I have no worry and no hurry to translate anything from the daytrotter on my own pace.
1). そのとき、我々は天気のせいにするだろう。もしくは乾杯、もしくはあぶり出すであろうその天候は、ワイ・オーク（Wye Oak）の音楽の低調さを響き渡らせる為のチルさや畏怖さを施すためである。このデュオは、ダン・ディーコン（Dan Deacon）、ヴィデオヒッポス（Videohippos）やデス・セット（Death Set）がする必要もなかったようでいて、ビーチ・ハウス（Beach House）が表現したようなバルティモア（ボルティモア/Baltimore）の街の触感をまさに表現している。これは家々の裏にある林の中から死体を見つけるような街のはじっこのことであり、それは、凍りつくような芸術表現、多過ぎるホーリーシットの数々、ショックであっけにとられる程のそのアティチュードと、後々に"メアリー・イズ・メアリー（Mary Is Mary）"などの楽曲に黙々と音に昇華され反映される、レッスンのような時間へと転換されていた。
1). The weather. We're blaming it. Or toasting or roasting it for the chilling and formidable pallor that it places upon the undertones of the music of Wye Oak. The duo represents the side of Baltimore that Beach House represents, not necessarily the one that Dan Deacon, Videohippos and Death Set do. This is the side of the city that finds dead bodies in the woods behind their homes, but turns that experience into a lesson in time - some frozen expressions, a lot of holy shits, shockingly aghast attitudes and then reticent digestion that could later evolve into what "Mary Is Mary" turned out to be.
2). You (if you were there as Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack of Wye Oak were) find yourself glad to have not been the one found dead in the woods, swirling with all of the questions of a neighborhood, a coroner, the sheriff and the birds. The way that the majority of the Baltimore "orioles" would have treated the scene would have been to convert it into a raging rage in the hip terms of partying and maybe causing some lighthearted havoc, just feeding off of the absurdity and the lucky strike that the material could be turned into thrashing, trashing dance music to get sweaty on.
3). Wye Oak would prefer to dissect the situation and ask the questions of the dead body, lodging the mind into the curious circumstances that led to its end - the thought that there lies a piece of person that used to be someone's little girl or little boy. We're assuming that the body was discovered with the help of some search hounds and a party of concerned citizens and law enforcement members under a cold and dreary sky, or so we'd be led to believe from the song that Wasner sings. A thick gray sky is like a fine coat and when a day acts like a leaky faucet, dribbling a constant rain all over a place, it's best to have some music that will lace the scene with some justice, with a pull in the direction of haunted dynamics.
4). When Wasner - and even Stack in a different, but similar touch - sings her pained songs, they fall off of her lips like warm drops of summer water, slipping down a crooked tree branch that's no more than a poor man's stick, inching to the cliff of the softened wood and then falling fatally onto the concrete below. While the water is in the air and loneliest, is where we find our heroes, the stars of these plays. Wasner and Stack embrace the tattered and fragmented slices of what trips us up all too often and they frame it into a lovely stretch that seems like a cracked ceiling that we might look up at during the night and curse.
5). （自主盤としては２００７年にリリースされていた２００８年のデビューアルバム）「If Children」収録の曲達は彼らがいかなるスタンピード（「パニック状態、驚いてどっと逃げ出すこと」）な状況からははずれていて、そんな脈打つ経路や自分自身を全ての中で上手く行かせるために受け流す方向へ持って行っているのだと、気がつかせている。その暗がりやそれら湿った（もしくは「感覚を鈍らせてくるような」）楽曲のスピリッツには能弁さがあり、でも慎重さをも奪われてしまうほど、すり切れてはくじいてしまったの混乱の中であるのもまた事実である。これはそんな物事をとにかく露にしてその不毛さに十二分に近づけるように聞きいるための、ある種のトリート（施し）であり、いかにクリティカル（危機的）な状況になっていたか、または未だなっているかを感じさせるものでもある。ワスナーは「あなたは貴方の中で時を過ごすのだわ。（"You've got years in you,"）」なんて歌い、そしてもしそれは何がこれまでの暮らしで伴っていたかを知らしめるように鳴っていて、その肌以上に時間が重ねられ、それはまた、完全には、最も荒い要素からはかけ離れている。ん、待てよ、そうでもない？これはある意味、そんな古い魂が蘇ってきてその感覚は何人もの人々にとってのインテリア・スケルトンという参照で、そしてそれはそんな目で狂っていることによってその心と内向的な精神が何度もの繰り返し自問自答されているようであるということでもある。そんな空模様にはアドヴァンテージ（利点）があって、それはワスナーとスタックによって証拠付けられているのである。それは一つの内側での偉業であり出口へと効果される。そしてそれはいつまでも使われる一つの古い方法論でもある。
5). The songs on If Children find themselves there where they're out of the way of any stampede, off the beaten path and fending for themselves as everything gets worked out. There's eloquence in the darkened corners and these dampened spirits, in the frayed and foiled masses, where the concern isn't grave, but it is important. It's a treat to hear such things sound so bare and to get close enough to touch the barrenness and feel how critical it all could have been or still could be. Wasner sings, "You've got years in you," and it sounds as if it's a remark on what dwells within, how it's aged more than the skin, and it's completely out of the reach of the harshest elements. Or is it? It's a reference to that old soul foundation that some feel is the interior skeleton of some people, when the eyes and the plumbing suggest that heart and the inner springs have been used for an amount of time that can't be answered for. The weather has an advantage when it gets inside, as evidenced by Wasner and Stack. It's an inside job that works its way out. It's an old method that always works.
Feeling like haven't opened fb a while, I know. The while is like a week. What's happening to me is not-recognizable thing always in that time. Well, recognizable but seems like don't want to. Never listen to and also never play music. Feel nothing as neither comfortable and uncomfortable. Tended to hate friend, which is obviously not good, even mentally. Happens, and happened.
★Lights Resolve / "Happens Every Day"
*Well, I have mentioned Lights Resolve bit on my Japanese blog a few days ago, and if you could find the hint to grab their free new single and see this song of their new arrived music video on their site is from here:
Sorry, unable to translate even its title of the Japanese article now.
BTW, this was one of what I have wanted to, and was to translate Dan Mangan's song to Japanese. I completely realized that no one in Japan mentioned and even was interested in himself so far. So that is my job. Asked his general manager and she said Dan would come attackin into Japan in 2012. Now he's releasing his junior album after this summer 2011. And a song I translated is my encounter song with him some years ago in Japan. That was in a Canadian compilation disc that I just found in old house where I was living then in Japan. Froze then. How much feeling I had connected with, in this song. Perfectly personal song and I felt like this song is absolutely only for me. I don't like feeling of asleep. shallow sleep is much better but uncomfortable.. actually. But this song was only song that describing how Narcoleptic is emotionally happening to the person. You might be able to feel emphasized the song, you will, I'm sure.
Follow the bottom of the Japanese paragraph to get the translation.
P.S.
I have two points that I have to say. One is that I have decided myself to never translate songs which have already released as Japanese edition album in Japan. Which means literally for Japanese music lovers, to discover the unknown artists or songs.
The other one is that I have even translated Dan's song before I didn't even notice. Which was a song called "Road Regards" (2009 the first track off his sophomore "Nice, Nice, Very Nice") .
Oh and, additionally as I little said, he's gonna release new record "Oh Fortune" in September and now he's giving away a new song album tittle track off the upcoming record on his official web site.
You must grab it
