“Voluntary Invasion” Just Re-Released

Voluntary Mother Earth’s 2005 debut album “Voluntary Invasion” has just been re-released on http://voluntarymotherearth.bandcamp.com/ .

Voluntary Invasion album cover

Those of you who still have not heard this album, or who happened to have gotten a bad sound quality version of this album by accident, come get this poop anew.

While I made it so you can download every song for free, please know that it’d greatly help me keep going if you could pitch in a few cents or dollars for my soundwave entertainment.

Enjoy the poop and lemme know if you like it.
-Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

VME 1st Album Re-release

Voluntary Mother Earth’s first album “Voluntary Invasion”(2005) will be re-released on http://voluntarymotherearth.bandcamp.com/ next week.

It has been unavailable online for quite some time due to its bad audio quality, due to “my bad” of a certain past band member who burned the master copy of the CD. The very original recording sounded great, but it got fucked up during the CD burning process handled by this certain cute member, to put it simple. It resulted in the widespread of this bad quality version of the album all over the fucking world, online and off. If you happened to have been one of the victims, my apologies. We lost a billion potential fans for this miserable accident. So God help us.

So, I pulled all the bad versions from the internet some long time ago, and now it’s time to put the good version up online. This is Sean(our original drummer) and Aki at their(or our) best, in my opinion. I dig this album, and hope you will too. It’s comin’. An’ it be bitchen.

Hugs,
-Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

PS. Our Website is going through maintenance of some sort. It might turn up weird from time to time for a while, so have fun looking at it.

New Release “Psychedelic Freakout”

Akihiko Hayakawa of Voluntary Mother Earth has just released a new piece of music, a guitar jam to be more specific, called “Psychedelic Freakout”.

It’s a 20-minute unedited improvised guitar solo doubled with yet another 20 minutes of guitar solo put together in the same song.

If you own VME’s album “Unacceptable Vegetable”, it’s kind of like what’s on “Free Head for a Free Ride”, but extended forever.

This song is dedicated to stoners and hippies.
If you’re into people like the late Hendrix, Grateful Dead, or electric Miles, you might find this enjoyable.

So, that’s enough of the mumbling.
You can stream, buy, or steal the song ONLY here and nowhere else:

http://voluntarymotherearth.bandcamp.com/

Check it out and lemme know if you like it. If you don’t, wait for the next Britney Spears album, I hear it’s amazing. As always, thanks for listening. It means everything to me.

Hugs,
-Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth
http://www.voluntarymotherearth.com/

Back in Japan, Break, Moving, Shows

Hi there, how are ya?

So we came back to Japan safe and sound about 10 days ago, and are now taking a little break.

And while we’re on this nice little break, I found the time to move into a new place with a friend of mine. Purdy cozy n nice, eh?

And while we’re on this nice little break, I found the time to go see the Japan tour of the U.S. bands Eskimo Hunter, Ceremony, and Screen Vinyl Image who we played with in Philly on this past tour. A great night.

Bought their CD and T-shirt and pins.

After all the touring (which I’m paying for) and moving and purchasing stuff, currently I’m extra broke.
What can I say, musicians live to lose money!

And of course, after playing with/watching all these shoegazer bands, I started writing a shoegazer song myself, or my take on that particular style of music.

Speaking of my take, I had gotten inspiration for “Forgive My Penis” and “… and You Got My Penis Hurt” (both on “Unacceptable Vegetable” album, 2007, available on iTunes and CDBaby if you haven’t heard ‘em yet) from my friend’s garage rock band. These two songs are pretty emotional and catchy and with some garage dirt. But with my twisting and tweaking they somehow came out slightly crooked.

The aforementioned new shoegazer song, temporarily titled “Blowjobs are Only for Boyfriends” inspired by a certain sexy American female friend of mine somewhere in Midwest, which you might hear on our next album or tour, will surely appeal to your slightly crooked ears as well. Stay tuned.

Talk to ya next time.

Love,
Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

http://www.voluntarymotherearth.com/

10/24-25 St. Louis

10/24 The Lemp Arts Center
10/25 KDHX 88.1fm Magnolia Studio

If it wasn’t for Andrew the Greatest, we would have played for a couple of people. Thanks to the magnificent Andrew, we got to play for a dozen people. Thank you so much Andrew! And to his friends, thank you so much for coming!

It’s nice to be able to play for a non-drunk, all-age audience one in a while.
Special thanks goes to Mark at the Lemp for cooking eggplants and sweet potatoes for us!

Also, we’d like to thank Tim at KDHX 88.1fm for inviting us to record some songs for his show. Thanks Tim!

Hope to see you again next year!
Thanks for coming!

-Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

http://www.voluntarymotherearth.com