Hi this is Tak from Imari Tones.
Can you see this?
As you can see, I had my hair cut.
It’s been a long long time since I had my hair this short.
This is because we are not playing any shows at this moment. At least for a while.
And this means, we are going to be successful, when I have my hair grow back / long again.
Yes I’m just saying this, but I’m saying this. We will be more successful when I have my hair long again.
We are going to release our new album pretty soon.
It took time. We recorded those songs last year, in 2023.
Mixing and mastering finished in this year, in June 2024.
We wanted to release it soon. But we had tours– domestic shows, domestic tours, and the USA tour in back July.
Now finally we are preparing for the release.
The album is titled “Coming Back Alive”.
We have had this title since long ago, I think I came up with it back in 2018, but now it has a whole new meaning after we survived the fire which happened in June 2023. We literally came back alive from the fire.
We never forget. We received so much support from our fans after the fire. It was a big help. We are very thankful. We couldn’t have made this album without your support.
We have to give back to you. This is our thank you album. This is happy music.
We promised, that we would include your name, the names of the people who supported us after the fire, on the Special Thanks List in the album booklet.
I think I wanna post it. Marie said maybe we should not, because that Thank You List, only those who purchased the CDs can see it. But nowadays people see social media a lot and not many people actually buy CDs. So I think I want to post it sometime soon, to show our gratitude to those people.
Before the album release, I think we want to release some singles.
Because this album contains so many catchy songs, strong songs that are good enough for single release.
You might think we are crazy. But I think we wanna release 3, 4, or even 5 songs before the actual album release.
Because we want to use this opportunity to spread the word about our band,
and we wanna have time to properly promote this album.
In my last post, I said we were going to release the album in January 2025, but this might push the release date even further. Maybe in February, maybe March. (We try our best)
But It’s gonna be a happy time for all of us, because we will release great songs one by one in the next few months.
Please understand. Please stick around.
I hope you experience this new album, new songs, together with us.
I’ll try my best to keep you posted.
Here, from Asao Christ Church, to all of you.
Thank you very much!
Keep on rocking for Jesus!