"Japanese Pop" genre: J-Pop
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	Cosmic guitar and nebulous cello over a “pop” kick; the sounds of a lazy, rainy Sunday in a Mason jar. Jack and lemon anyone?
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	Story Behind the Song Written originally six years ago as a song about the ocean: the breakers of rock, the cry of tired gulls. Became what it is now only after a January's two a.m. revelation: a group of friends, a drum machine, a cello, a guitar, lemon sour, and j. daniels. This was the first song the Nabokov Project ever created as a unit: ted leslie, dave pollock, thea morton, and m. w. gargo (an incarnation of the project that his since disbanded). The idea behind putting a lyrical yet depressing cello line over the already pensive guitar and calling it a "japanese pop" song was to set the mood of "Japan" (or at least my reading of it) after the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on heavily populated (and largely unprepared) civilian areas in order to not only "end" the already finished war but also to send a more important message to the USSR about U.S.'s military superiority in the window before the start of the cold-war. (The image of the rising sun is supposed to represent the force and image of those first atomic blasts.) This is a song which attempts to capture the mood of that era (error?) and of that destruction, and ultimately, of the U.S.'s lack of consideration for human lives. Dave Pollock composed lyrics and a spoken word vocal track for this song (both have since been lost) expressing much of what this "song story" describes but I think "Japanese Pop" will stay an instrumental for the time being.

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