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

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.

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/

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 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

Chicago Quenchers.

Not many people in the picture, but there were a lot more hanging around in the bar.
It was the funnest night. Yes, Chicago was the grand winner of this tour!

The sexy Beth, who had come to our last Chicago show in March, came back with a few friends. Tonight was, according to an email she had sent me, the day after her birthday. Happy Birthday, and Thank You Beth!

Next time you are in Chicago, go drink at Quenchers.

Thanks for coming!
See you next year!

Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

http://www.voluntarymotherearth.com/

at Snug Harbor in Charlotte NC with the side. and Red All Over.

Really nice people. It was great to meet them and play with them.
After the show, a nice man by the name of James came up to me to introduce himself with a bunch of Japanese candies. We had a nice little chat and he ended up letting us, or was forced to let us, stay at his nice house in the depth of North Carolina mountains. Thank you James!

We’d love to come back there on the next tour!

And today, we simply drove from Charlotte up to near Indianapolis, and now I’m writing this poop at a certain Motel 6. I hear a girl moaning, probably of pleasure, from next door… How beautiful.

We got two more shows and will be back to Japan.
See you at the next show!

-Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

http://www.voluntarymotherearth.com/

The Cave in Chapel Hill NC.

We drove 5 hours to get to this place, only to play for a 0-person audience. This night we made a staggering, magnificent, earth-shaking, 5 bucks. What a great night!

We started out our show with a 0-person audience. Very fucking cool. A really cool dude walked in during our third song and started rocking out BIG TIME by himself, shoutin, headbangin, moshpittin and all, all by himself.

We really appreciated this man and his “audience participation” which is hard to come by in a night like this. We really did. He was going nuts on us all on his own. He was having a blast and we loved him with all our hearts. Sadly, he was only to get kicked out by the bartender during the next song… We resumed to continue to play a show for nobody…

Looks like it’ll be a long time before we get to come down this way.

-Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

http://www.voluntarymotherearth.com/

The Red and The Black in DC!
Back in DC for the third time!

We played with a killer L.A. band Graydon. Not only were they a killer band, everybody in the band was so cool with us we really appreciated it.

The handsome Ben, who came to see us last time we played D.C. came out to see us again. Thanks Ben, you rock!

Though we had a Monday turnout, we had a great time playing there.
See you on the next tour!

My friend Trevor, who actually is working as a tour guide in Philly, took us on a Philly tour, for free, and showed us around. Great times. Thanks Trevor san!

Too many pics, so no individual comments, but enjoy!

This was the first time for us to visit Philly. We love this city!

-Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

http://www.voluntarymotherearth.com/