Remember SAWA? She sang a number of songs on The World Ends With You (that’s Subarashiki Kono Sekai in Japan), the Square Enix Action RPG for DS with music by Takeharu Ishimoto. SAWA is the stage name of a particular female vocalist (full name Sawa Kato), but she has her own band which uses the SAWA name. And she definitely releases her own music outside of videogames.
“333” was SAWA’s debut full LP-sized album. They also have a new EP out called “Figure and Shadow,” but we’re going to look into her roots with this album. How does she sound without backup from Ishimoto, outside the context of game music? If you want to find out, I would recommend reading beyond the jump. (more…)
