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Members:: Asako Natsubori/Vocals & Guitars
Mikiko Degawa/Bass & Chorus
Kaz Ichimura/Guitars
Nadehiko/Drums
Genre:: Pop/Rock
Hometown:: Tokyo, Japan
Record Label:: Zankyo Record

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Frogs - pre-production take

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Sabrina Quintanilla hey guys~ So I'm at a few Japanese music forums and I was thinking about writing an article about you guys at one, to sort of spread the word and maybe gather some new fans of your music!

July 3 at 4:24pm · Report

texas pandaa at 9:01am July 4

That would be so lovely! Thank you so much for helping out! Didn't know there were forums for Japanese music out there. Is Japanese indie music popular outside Japan? Quite interesting. :)

Sabrina at 4:44pm July 5

There's a ton of forums for Japanese music! Some are based in Singapore, where J-music is huge, and a lot here in the US.

I'll tell you the truth, at the forums I go to, people mainly listen to the mainstream J-pop, ayumi hamasaki, namie amuro, koda kumi, boa, etc.

But it really depends on where you go. At one forum I'm at, called JpopStop, more people are into the indie bands, and people like Spangle Call lilli Line and school food punishment.... Read More

But, the problem is, that here in the US, we don't really get exposed to a lot of bands from Japan, and especially the indie ones, so you have to kind of make the effort to look and dig around.

It's good when you know other people who know them too, so you can spread the word. I think the best new invention for music around the world is Last fm. :)

http://www.last.fm/music/Texas+Pandaa

Best way to find out info on artists.

Saki Tang I would really love to experience your live show or concert! Hope that one day you can come to Taiwan to bring benefit to all your fans in Taiwan.ha ha : )) I love you guys(kiss)

June 20 at 9:16am · Report

texas pandaa at 10:47pm June 21

Hi Saki-san! Thank you for your comment. We did go to Taiwan last October! We played at The Wall. You can check out some videos of that time in our YouTube box. We have such fond memories of Taiwan! Hope we could visit your country soon again! Lots of kisses to you too :-)

Sabrina Quintanilla The composition for "Frogs" is great! And the vocals are lovely. ♥ You know, I really like the arrangements of your songs. You guys have succeeded in producing a sound all your own, in a genre where...it's not so easy. The harmonica is an interesting touch. It makes an interesting mix.

I think Frogs will be one of my favorite songs when it's released. :)

June 16 at 6:41pm · Report

texas pandaa at 6:49pm June 18

Oooooh, thank you Sabrina-san. You are so sweet! I'm sure you'll like all the new stuff we'll be doing on our new album! (which we don't even know when we're going to start recording :( )

Erica Rielle Medina Gapas i hope you'll have more albums to come!!! i love you guys :D

May 29 at 9:15pm · Report

texas pandaa at 8:45pm May 31

Thank you Erica! We're struggling with our new album now... But we hope to get it out sometime this year! Pls check in on us from time to time for updates! :)

Asa Barnes I love you guys music!

May 21 at 11:28pm · Report

texas pandaa at 12:07am May 22

Thank you Asa-san! And congratulations, you're our 100th Facebook fan!

Thank you everyone for your warm & kind support!

Julian Young Any news on a new album?

May 13 at 10:53am · Report

texas pandaa at 6:25pm May 13

Sorry guys! We have no updates on our new album! Booo. Our manager suddenly resigned last week and we're re-scheduling everything - from pre-production to tour/gig stuff. We'll perhaps start recording our pre-production materials in June but not sure about the "real" recording dates yet... We'll keep you posted!

texas pandaa at 10:03pm May 21

Hi Julian, you're still 14 times short of becoming an official pandaa geek. But thanks for mentioning - Frogs is not available yet! The song will be included in our next album. I've uploaded the pre-production take on Music Player (on the bottom left corner of this page). Just to be sure, this is not our final take. We will be re-recording the song because we sucked real bad (especially the harmonica haha) on this one. Hope you like it anyway. :)

texas pandaa We've updated some gig info below:

http://www.texaspandaa.com/ENG/schedule.html

We'll be touring around Japan in September with 10+ other label mates performing for the annual "Zankyo Festival" 5th anniversary event. It's going to be one heck of an exciting event! Let us know if you're in Japan and are interested in coming to one of the shows.

texas pandaa - Live Schedule

Source: www.texaspandaa.com

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May 8 at 4:20am

Joe at 10:32am May 8

aww sounds great, too bad I'm stuck in Texas :(

Sabrina Quintanilla I love you guys...come to San Francisco! :P (please)

May 4 at 10:33pm · Report

texas pandaa at 6:31pm May 7

Ah! Thank you Sabrina! We're working on it! :)

Sabrina at 7:43pm May 7

best news in the world! I'd pay serious munny to see you guys ♥

texas pandaa Our label wants us to get off our butts and go on tour abroad too. They're trying to make us the "hitman" for Zankyo's foreign invasion program or something. We're currently talking about touring around - maybe UK for starters - and US is certainly in our scheme! It's going to take a while for us fix things out but hopefully we'll have some kind of update by the end of this summer...

April 13 at 3:57am

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Sabrina, James, Kevin and 6 others like this.

Julian Young Come to the US. Please :D

April 12 at 10:51pm · Report

Nathan Reaven If anyone is interested in purchasing some Texas Pandaa check out their page at HearJapan (don't forget to read their interview too!):
http://www.hearjapan.com/store/group/Texas_Pandaa

April 12 at 4:54am · Report

texas pandaa Hi Cliff. I'm not quite familiar with chords and scales but I think Asako plays in normal tuning with capo on the 1st fret - so that makes it F maj? Don't know... Asako calls it "J major". I'll ask her and get back to you with details!

April 7 at 6:48pm

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texas pandaa at 11:31pm April 20

Yes those portable recorders are very nice! We always take the R-09 with us to rehearsals to record ideas and stuff. We chose R-09 because we wouldn't need MTR functions nor mic emulations. We just wanted something to rec our ideas in a breeze. I heard that R-09 A/D conversions and stereo image stability is better than that of H4, and ZOOM ... Read Morecomponents (switches etc) could break down easily? We don't know for sure, we have never used ZOOM stuff. But I'm sure H4 has its good points with tons of functions and mic interface. I guess it depends on what you want to do with it. Well anyway we're totally satisfied with the sound quality and conveniences of R-09 as of the moment and I would also recommend you get some kind of portable recorder - you can learn a lot from them!

texas pandaa at 5:23am May 2

Most of the time Asako and Degawa are the ones who bring up ideas for songs. We jam it up real good at studio rehearsals until it builds up into a song worth listening to. I once wrote on my journal about this process which was later on introduced on HearJapan.

http://www.hearjapan.com/news/artist_news/Texas_Pandaa_Grumble_About_The_Song_Writing_Process

The article is an example of how we made the song "Days" - First Mikiko made a simple recording with only her guitars and vocals. Then we tried out tons of versions at studio rehearsals (as you can hear on one of the mp3s) and ultimately got Days as recorded on the album.... Read More

Lyrics are written by Asako and Mikiko :)

Cliff Thompson what tuning do yo guys play in on "Single Tear Drop" and what scale
...im very curious

April 7 at 9:23am · Report

texas pandaa Ah, how nice! I knew there was something stinky about us haha. We sure would love to go to NY!

March 30 at 2:30am

Kyle texas pandaa is THE SHIT. COME TO NEW YORK!

March 29 at 9:12pm · Report

texas pandaa Don't know how to use this new FB; I can't seem to reply to comments now! Anyway thanks again everyone! ALL your comments are read and we're truly grateful!

March 18 at 6:53am

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texas pandaa at 10:50pm March 28

Aha! Now I can write and read my own comment!

texas pandaa Forgot to mention "Super Star" is a song Nadehiko made with the help of Asako and our good friend aCae (www.myspace.com/acae). Hope you like it!

March 17 at 10:21pm

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texas pandaa at 6:39am March 18

Thanks Momau-san! Yes, we would love to do some European tour someday!

texas pandaa BTW does anyone know how we can write more than 3 lines on the wall at once? Hmmmm

March 17 at 9:09pm

texas pandaa at 10:13pm March 17

Me neither! Ohhh this is so troublesome

texas pandaa at 10:17pm March 17

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texas pandaa at 6:40am March 18

This is not good! I can't even read my own comment now!

texas pandaa Texas Pandaa version of "Super Star" will be included in our 3rd album! Yay

March 17 at 9:07pm

texas pandaa And hey look! We've finally succeeded in adding Music Player on our page! (It's on the left hand side)

March 17 at 9:05pm

texas pandaa Thank you Jean-Philippe, how nice to be commented that way! Every time we recieve a nice message from fans it just boosts our energy up :)

March 17 at 8:43pm

Jean-Philippe Hubert Balland It's nice to see a band actually comment back to its fans. :) Looking forward to your new material! And if I ever get to visit Japan to see you guys play, it will surely be a great day!

March 17 at 6:31pm · Report

texas pandaa Thank you Julian!

March 17 at 12:13am

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Julian Young I LOVE YOUR MUSIC

March 16 at 6:24am · Report

texas pandaa Hi Momau-san - thank you for writing in :)
Yes, DO come to Japan. We've got lots of places to party.

Nice pic btw hehe.

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We still haven't been able to upload stuff on Facebook's music player... Wonder what's up with the Facebook guys. Hope they're looking in to this.

March 12 at 1:06am · Report

Momau Le Lutin Amazing band !!

Can't wait to go in Japan to see you (and toe haha).

March 11 at 2:11pm · Report

texas pandaa Thank you once again for your warm comments, Amanda-san. :) Hope nothing extra has hit you and that you're feeling better now. Take care!

There seems to be quite an argument about the pros-and-cons of the new Facebook layout but it sure is going to be one big task for us to be ready in time for the change - we don't even know how to use the current version, ha! We've been trying to implement the music player on our Facebook page for the past several days now but hey, what the heck is going on here? Nobody seems to be able to upload anything... Hope Facebook fixes this bug in a hurry!

BTW we re-arranged some songs on MySpace. Old Times and And What Flows are now available for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!

http://www.myspace.com/texaspandaa

March 9 at 10:25pm · Report

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