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18 Years of AVO: Messages from Japanese musicians (part 1)

Francisca Hagen by Francisca Hagen
2 July 2021
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Collage of photos taken by AVO Magazine or for AVO Magazine during Japan-related events, such as concerts, anime conventions and more, with on top the numbers 18 and the following text: "18 Years of AVO: Messages from Japanese musicians (part 1)"

Collage of photos taken by AVO Magazine or for AVO Magazine during Japan-related events, such as concerts, anime conventions and more, with on top the numbers 18 and the following text: "18 Years of AVO: Messages from Japanese musicians (part 1)"

A lot has already been done to celebrate AVO Magazine’s 18th birthday and rightly so, 18 years is no mean feat! From the production of a podcast episode to the highlights by current and former team members of the web project, also several musicians decided to celebrate by sending in videos with a special message.

Below are the first five videos released on AVO Magazine’s YouTube channel.

MOMOCURLY

After discovering the music of MOMOCURLY, several releases from this duo got highlighted on AVO Magazine. The musicians have been busy with creating new music and an album and hopefully they will return to Europe soon.

Cilvie

The first interview of 2021 was with the rock band Cilvie. In that interview, they have discussed the future of the music scene in Japan. In the meantime, they are working hard to create new music to hopefully soon perform them on stage.

BLACK MARIA

Rock band BLACK MARIA got interviewed a while back for AVO Magazine and was willing to make a special video for AVO Magazine’s 18th anniversary and also announced something in the video as well!

HIRΦNO KAMINOSE

While most are familiar with the former work under a different name of the singer-songwriter, just since recently the musician is active under the name HIRΦNO KAMINOSE. You can read more about it in this curtain-raiser article. To celebrate AVO Magazine’s birthday, the musician decided to record a song.

Re:O

Recently, singer-songwriter Re:O got interviewed on AVO Magazine as an introduction to her work and her new adventure as a solo musician. She took the chance to also create a video to celebrate with us.

There are a couple more videos on their way, so please subscribe to AVO Magazine’s YouTube channel and look forward to more videos! In the meantime, support the musicians and follow them on social media and subscribe to their YouTube channels as well! Also is it good to know that liking and commenting on videos will help the videos to get noticed more and the musicians will see it as well!

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Never satisfied, always exploring. Started with AVO in 2003. Now active as a writer, reporter, reviewer, promoter, photographer, interviewer and presenter. Can be found regularly at conventions and concerts in the Netherlands and sometimes elsewhere in Europe or even in Japan. Big passion for Japan and music, can be made happy with coffee. (click on Soundcloud logo)

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