Following up on John’s brilliant article about the origins of “Project ASAKAZE”, I’ve been thinking. To summarise it, an exercise in curiosity thanks to the “Animal Crossing” video game series led him to experimenting around with the surf and country genres and applying the results to several instrumental cover songs. The insights gained from these experiments have gone on to be applied to our third original song, and having listened to the song in its current state, I daresay that they have turned out to be really useful.

Project ASAKAZE started life as a thought I’d slept on for a while – “Hey, wouldn’t this song (Graceful Gate by Japanese symphonic metal band Cross Vein) sound quite neat as a Spaghetti Western soundtrack?”

Project ASAKAZE is proud to release its latest cover, this time that of a certain German song espousing the charms of Moscow.

Greetings everyone! My name is Tessie, though you can call me Tess. I am the lyricist for Roseburn Avenue, hoping to perhaps eventually join as a musician and singer as well.

Zach here. As promised, I’ll do a quick write-up as to what I use to record my bass and vocal parts at the moment. Given the lack of space in my apartment, I’ve had to focus on keeping things minimal.