Hey there.

Japan has entered into a 3-month-long (or in some years 4-5-month long) allergy season during which 1 in 5 people here keep sneezing nonstop, blowing the nose nonstop because it keeps running nonstop. It’s a horrifying season for those of us living in this goddamned country.

See this video.

Now, I happen to be one of those poor victims (for 15 years) of this particular ceder tree pollen allergy, and am not able to sing in recording quality for a few months. My throat is swollen, my vocal cords are swollen, my nose is swollen, my eyes are swollen. A great time to take a girl out on a date.

I’ll attempt to record on a good day, but it looks like it’ll be a while before the recording can be all done.

My apologies for those of you who thought that “the delivery was imminent”. I’d thought so too. Thanks for your patience. The baby will look bloody rad when it pops out.

In the meantime, I’ll try to record and release something that can’t be affected by this allergy from hell. Spring, it’s the best time to be in Tokyo…

Talk to ya soon.

hugs,
Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

Yes, VME’s email club has moved to a new server, as of this writing.
Everyone in the club should have gotten a notification email and a “please confirm” email.

If you had signed up in the past but didn’t get the above two emails, then your mail might have been “lost in translation”.

Please take 5 seconds of your precious life and re-sign up from the form on the left side of this page, and everything will be alright.

Club members will get a nice, marvelous, splendid discount on our upcoming album. So if you haven’t signed up yet, now is a good time!

Talk to you soon.

Hugs,
Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

As some of you know, I’ve started my own personal blog called “Aki’s Absurdity” that covers things about Japan, absurd or otherwise. And I’ve shot a few videos for that blog with VME music in the background. Purdy cool. Pooty tang.

So to a VME fan, they kinda sorta also function as music videos. Actually, I made a real music video for “Psychedelic Freakout”(shortened version) as well. So here they are.

Now I’ll shut the fuck up so you can watch ‘em and tell your friends about this little absurdist rock band from the Orient.

Enjoy!

Psychedelic Freakout

Engrish #1

Engrish #2

More on their way!

PS. Now that I made this new website(took me 8hours a day everyday for a few weeks), I’ll keep you posted on what’s goings on around VME and my personal oddities MORE OFTEN (I hope). Your comments and feedback are encouraged and treasured. So please do feel free to comment below!

PPS. NEW ALBUM! I’ve been working on vocal parts (Yes I’m working on music too!!) while managing to revamp this god forsaken website. Now that I’m done with remaking this website, I’ll go full-force, 100% back to the recording process. Stay tuned.

So that’s it for today. Stay sexy, I’ll do the opposite.
hugs,
Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth