Japan’s love of British rock’n’roll has long been a trope, but the traffic has largely been one way, with planes and planes of young guitar slingers heading east from the UK to make it big but far fewer Japanese songsters getting to make the trip in return. Enter brothers Shotaro and Youshiro Nishida, better known as SAHAJi, and their insanely powerful new single ‘Future in the Sky’.
Finding robust inspiration in their Mancunian Gallagher brother counterparts, the first release from the singer and guitarist siblings’ debut EP has prodigious guitar solos, an outrageously singalong chorus full of swaggering positivity and a sumptuously moving orchestral swell, gleaning myriad elements from generations of western rock’n’roll, from The Beatles to Jimi Hendrix to Oasis, and handing back some life-affirmingly melodic self-assured bounty in return.
‘Future In The Sky’ was released via Flip Flop Records on 12th January 2023. The lead track is available on all streaming services as we speak and the full debut EP is available to buy on CD for less than a fiver. The full track listing is below:
1) The Future In The Sky
2) Tell Me All Your Feelings
3) I Wanna Be There
4) The Future In The Sky
The lads are currently slap bang in the middle of a string of UK live dates with the following two dates remaining:
Friday 19th January – The Geek Bar, Burton
Saturday 20th January – The Foundry, Brecon
You can have a watch of the ‘Future In The Sky’ video below:
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