FES.!!! FES.!!! FES.!!!! Vol.01
If we went to a festival. in FUJI&SUN '23

It is now a comfortable season to spend time outside, and the long-awaited festival season has arrived. Just as there are many different forms of festivals held every week somewhere in Japan, there are also many different ways to enjoy festivals. If you can enjoy them in your own way without disturbing others, you are sure to have a great time. So, what are some ways to enjoy a festival? If you are wondering what kind of fun you can have at a festival, let us introduce you to one. I went to "FUJI & SUN'23" in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, together with an independent print label, "PAJ STUDIO. I think I learned something new about the appeal of festivals from the way these two play at festivals.

Photo_Shingo Goya
Live Photo_Hide Watanabe (navaver young beach, Yuta Orisaka), Makoto Ebi (cero, Saho Terao)
Text_Shogo Komatsu
Edit_Soma Takeda

DAY 2
You can still play, the second day begins.

On the second day, the rain was lighter than yesterday. Fuji, which I couldn't see yesterday, peeked out through the clouds to greet me.

Fuji, a song perfectly suited to the location, and a cover of Kiseru's "Kuchinashino-Oka," a song that Terao's father was fond of, were performed on the piano. The clear voice of the singer echoed through the rain-soaked venue, and some of the audience were even moved to tears. Of course, TAKA and SHUTO seemed to have been captured by the audience's hearts.

TAKA: I saw them live for the first time and was pleasantly surprised by their very delicate singing voice. I will listen to the soundtrack when I get back home.

SHUTO: The songs were really pleasant. The episode about the kappa (water imps) that the MC talked about was very interesting.

After watching the live performance, the two started to head home a little early with Kaela Kimura's "Butterfly" coming from the SUN STAGE as their background music.