Music Corner Week 45: Macaroni Enpitsu
/Macaroni Enpitsu is a four-member rock band out of Kanagawa that formed in 2012. All the members of the band went to and met at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music located in Kanagawa. In June of 2012, they performed their first live event at one of the university’s on-campus events and made the band official from that day forward. Lead by Runosuke Kono who goes by the nickname Hattori the group would go on with RECORDS BUDDY in 2015. The band would stay with RECORDS BUDDY until 2017 which then had switched to TALTO / Muffin Discs record label whom they are still with today.
Listeners can really hear these guys went to music school with a lot of their songs, performed expertly they aren’t afraid to experiment with new sounds, but still manage to find a middle ground that is also fun and enjoyable. They also have a wide amount of range and talent that they are able to execute really well. Hattori has a simple but elegant voice that really captures the listeners’, “hope” is a great example as it will strike a cord with first-time listeners. The composition at first sounds simple but there is a lot going on in the background that pulls the song together. Another track that I recommenced for listeners is “Blueberry Nights”. It piano introduction kick it off the song and holds it to a nice and upbeat composition before transitioning to a more intense chorus in which it’s guitar work is just superb.
Hattori not only does the vocals but he also does the guitar for the band and writes all the music with the help of the base player Kenya Takano, who is also the group’s resident anime fan. Yoshiaki Tanabe is the other guitarist in the band and is responsible for the shredding guitar the listener sometimes hears. Lastly, the band’s keyboardist is Daiki Hasegawa. The original for the drummer left in 2017 and has never been replaced. Instead, the band has four people who they rotate out. The band’s Official Site posts all the latest news for the band along with their official Twitter page. They also just drop their second album titled hope so if you like what you hear be sure to give that a listen to.
