The Official Van Tomiko Thread

[Lovelypuppy]

i must say yumeji is a really beautiful and dreamy song :x :x
...i love her voice in this song...so tender and nice :x

[explodingbird]

Yeah, apologize for the double post by triple-posting. There's an edit button - use it.

Anyway. I like the Yumeji covers (hope there's a large, high-quality version for the CD-only available soon) - don't know about the songs yet, though, but why bother with them? They won't be on her next goddamn album.

Freaking Van. She does know it's smart to release signles that'll actually be on an album eventually, right?

[realize_!]

Originally Posted by explodingbird

Anyway. I like the Yumeji covers (hope there's a large, high-quality version for the CD-only available soon) - don't know about the songs yet, though, but why bother with them? They won't be on her next goddamn album.

Freaking Van. She does know it's smart to release signles that'll actually be on an album eventually, right?

well, her next album is a cover album. it's not an original album, so of course her singles won't be on it. Hopefully (most likely) her 2nd original album will contain her single songs.

any news on the album by the way?

[Chandrachan]

I like "labyrinth" better, Yumeji is a nice song!!
The covers are beautifull too - I wanna see Van with long hair again from the "Deep Forest" days she looked so beautifull!! I mean she still does now but long hair suits her better in my opinion!!

[MsMiyabi]

Whoa so a cover album. Haven't heard any news on tomiko in a while.

[realize_!]

Tomiko's cover album will be released March 28

New cover album from Tomiko Van includes renditions of your favorite tracks from both Japan and abroad. This edition includes bonus DVD with one music video. *Unless otherwise indicated, DVDs are region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and carry no subtitles.

cdjapan preorders

CD+DVD
CD

[Chandrachan]

cool - Arigatou for the info
Does that mean that Van will be singing some songs in English?

[JesA]

hmm, didnt know about the cover album....i hope the second album is soon, because i really want to hear some new original stuff...but it better have Labyrinth on it...that song IMO is so much better than Yumeji. And i hope the cover album has songs i know of on it...i read that she likes Sheryl Crow...lol maybe she'l sing My Favorite Mistake (love that song) i hope her pronounciation has improved a bit. It wouldnt matter much though

[Chandrachan]

Originally Posted by JesA

i hope the second album is soon, because i really want to hear some new original stuff...but it better have Labyrinth on it...that song IMO is so much better than Yumeji.

Totally agree with you that and Farewell - great songs!!

[realize_!]

tracklist^^

1) HOME
2) Coffee Rumba (Moliendo Café) (コーヒールンバ)
3) Kanojo (彼女)
4) Yasashii Ame (優しい雨)
5) IF
6) Ruriiro no Chikyuu (瑠璃色の地球)
7) Yoru ni Kizutsuite (夜に傷ついて)
8) TRUTH’94
9) Hajimari wa Itsumo Ame (はじまりはいつも雨)
10) Shoujo (少女)
11) Miagete Goran Yoru no Hoshi wo (見上げてごらん夜の星を)

creds: Martzb @ JPM

[~Matt~]

I hope it will include nice covers... thanks for the update ^_^ go ban-chan! <3

[chocopockymaster]

TRUTH!!! <333 I loved her cover of that song. I don't recognize any of the other songs, though...

edit: For the first track, are we talking Angela Aki's HOME?!?!?

[JesA]

NOO where are all the English covers?

[realize_!]

IF by BREAD

[Chandrachan]

Arigatou for the tracklist

[realize_!]

Tomiko's new album has a title

"Voice - Cover You With Love"

Very nice, I like it^^

[~Matt~]

Thanks for the update ^^

According to Amazon.co.jp this pic is the cover of the album:

or perhaps is only a temporary image...

[chocopockymaster]

^ That's from the cover shooting of Yumeji. So it's just a temporary image.

Love the title, though. <3

[~Matt~]

The tracklist of the new album has been uploaded @ Ban's website, the song order is different from the other tracklist posted before

2007.3.28 RELEASE
『Voice ～cover you with love～』

【CD＋DVD】AVCD-23227/B　¥3,800（税込）
【CDのみ】AVCD-23228　¥3,059（税込）　※【CDのみ】封入ブックレット：写真集仕様

【CD収録曲】・・・（）内は原曲歌手名
1. home (川村結花)
2. 夜に傷ついて (アンルイス)
3. 彼女 (佐野元春)
4. コーヒー・ルンバ (井上陽水)
5. 優しい雨 (小泉今日子)
6. はじまりはいつも雨 (ASKA)
7. 少女 (五輪真弓)
8. 見上げてごらん夜の星 (坂本九)
9. TRUTH'94 (TRF)
10. If (BREAD)
11. 切手のないおくりもの (財津和夫)
bonus track. 夢路 -acoustic version-

【DVD収録予定映像】
夜に傷ついて MUSIC CLIP

The cover of Matsuda Seiko's "瑠璃色の地球" is not anymore in the album　。。

And another news...

Anime opening theme information

It starts on Saturday, March 3, 2007.
Tomiko Van new song "manacles" was decided to be the opening theme of the WOWOW anime 'REIDEEN (ライディーン)'.

Tomiko Van:｢manacles｣
WOWOW anime 'REIDEEN' (Saturday every week) 19:00 opening theme

REIDEEN official homepage: Http://www.reideen.jp/

- The release of this song is undecided.

[chocopockymaster]

Manacles? o__O I think that wins an award for one of the weirdest titles.