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Transcription, translation, transliteration & sharing of Tujiko Noriko's lyrics (and some occasional tips & insights in music).

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This is the second transcription! It comes from the erotic opressions of "Blurred in my mirror" (Room40, 2005). Tujiko voyage directly to a psychiatry ward and describes the sweet & painfully hallucinated perceptions of this female patient towards the family visit (maybe the mind's denial in front of our loved one's suffering?). Tap dancing is a major dellusional component - I guess this adds some lightness to the heavy subject. Sorry for the missing japanese parts, I'll try to make some romaji for them, but much probably my word separation will be dreadful, lol!

NIAGARA HOSPITAL, Tujiko Noriko

the light through the curtain is like sunday light or i’m loosing myself i don’t know i’m dying or what oh, yeah, soon my boyfriend will come to this room oh he came, oh he is in a very nice suite. (????) hum he kissed on me very gently, oh i can hear, i can listen to the sound of the sleepers of the nurses tan tan tan tan tan tan. yeah, it’s like tap dancing (japanese Tujiko-esque chanting) my mind is coming up to the sky it’s like paper. i’m loosing myself. i don’t know i’m dying or what. oh the doctor came, yeah, i don’t know. he is dancing too? yeah, he’s dancing to, to the sound of the sleepers of the nurses.. you are very like dancing, i don’t know why they are dancing in this hospital, they are dancing. so, yeah, i can see him, he started to dance too, my boyfriend. yeah, he doesn’t look like he wants to dance, but i don’t know, he started to dance too with a flower. he is almost crying. they, the three people are dancing him (???). i can see it, slightly, i can listen to the sound, tan tan tan tan tan. (another Tujiko’s japanese vocal chorus) they are waving their hands, smiling sometimes, but my boyfriend is almost crying they are dancing, tan tan tan tan tan, waving their hands, yeah, maybe it’s a goodbye dancing goodbye tap dancing, my tear can be like a niagara, niagara waterfall. my memory can be like niagara waterfall, they are dancing, tan tan tan tan tan, yeah, it looks happy goodbye. my tear can be washed away. they are waving their hands goodbye dancing, happy dancing, (Tujiko’s japanese evocation) goodbye dancing (Japanese singing) happy dancing tap dancing

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Here it goes! The first ever transcription! Direct from Tujiko's last musical voyage: "East Facing Balcony" featuring the splendid kinda-dandi looking Takemura Nobukazu. I present you: "Simple Day".

SIMPLE DAY, Tujiko Noriko.

to make blue we didn’t know which color to mix to make blue we didn’t know we don’t need to mix anything simple simple simple - today it’s oh so simple with you, with you with you all is just so simple to make us jump we didn’t know how to move the body to make us jump we didn’t know we can do it like we love simple simple simple - today is oh so simple with you, with you with you all is just so simple tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow - tomorrow is just me with you with you, with you, with you all is just so simple tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow - tomorrow is in your eyes. with you, with you, with you all is just so simple with you all is just so simple with you all is just so simple with you all is just so simple with you all is just so simple with you all is just so simple with you all is just so simple with you all is just so simple with you all is just so simple with you all is just so simple with you all is just so simple (to make blue we didn’t know which color to mix) (to make blue we didn’t know we don’t need to mix anything) (simple simple simple - today it’is oh so simple with you, with you, with you (all is just so simple) tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow is just in your eyes with you, with you, with you all is all so simple (to make blue we didn’t know which color to mix to make blue we didn’t know we don’t need to mix anything) (to make blue we didn’t know which color to mix) all is just so simple

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In these pages from the booklet of "From Tokyo to Naiagara" (2003, Tomlab), we have three songs (#6 Tokyo; #7 Tokyo Tower; #8 Robot Hero) dealing with Tokyo, its life, its tower, its fake pikongtang, its fake lights & collapsing self. These are original translations too - kinda cheesy, but authentic, lol.

PS: I'm planning the first transcription of a Tujiko's song in english. Maybe something from "Blurred in my mirror" or "Solo".

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"Shojo Toshi+" (2006, Editions Mego), as a re-release this album got my attention by the very last track "Robot Hero" live version with its gorgeous sampled clapping! And it is JUST cute when Tujiko mellowly shouts "ROBOTO HIRO" (introducing the song) in her almost-falsetto voice. Another highlight is "Girls meets boy" (above), such an uplifting melody with mid-range bass as the main line for the melody, great explorations in rhythm too. I believe the drawings are all Tujiko's. 

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We can forgive Tujiko's absent lyrics in "Blurred in My Mirror" (2005, Room40) booklet for the amazing, pungent, piercing blue (Reflex Blue @ Pantene) of the cover and insides. And, to make it even more appealling, Tujiko is holding a cigarette with such a opressive expression on her face. Lovely. As mentioned in my personal favorite review from Dusted Reviews:

I’d like to see an edit of The Passion of Christ with some of the cuts off Blurred In My Mirror as the soundtrack. This new album’s slow moving rhythms and phat bass speak of burden. If you’re looking for oppressive music, this seven song collection lectures eloquently on the erotics of oppression. [i just absolutely LOVE this description: "erotics of oppression" amazes me.]

The personality at the center of this world is Tujiko Noriko. And the thing is, she takes the burden with style. Her unconventional approach to melody - steady even rhythms and a significant distrust of the standard pop modes – suggests a small-voiced female who is apathetic to the weightiness of her environment. She moves fluidly through it, passing into multiple areas in the stereo space, sometimes existing in multiple simultaneous vocal bodies to evade the weight of existence.

by Suriku Rineto @ Dusted Reviews

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Here it is, the first lyrics page of "Solo" (2007, Editions Mego). Tujiko released her lyrics, for this album, entirely in japanese. No romaji. No translations. Tough vision for those who have been listening to Tujiko for some time and have never understand a word of it - still, the melody, her haunting voice, the beats and bass are mindblowing by themselves. But, what a new world to discover into her lyrics don't we have?

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The first post comes with two official translations from "From Tokyo to Naiagara" (2003, Tomlab), Tujiko's 6th album. Some reviews point these translation as cheap, as they don't bring the proper feeling of the originals - after all, translation is betrayal, lol! :) So here it is: the bitter and kinda in-denial ending "Narita Made" & the rather sexual "Zipper". Oh, and this is a scan of the original booklet.