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BAND-MAIKO strikes again, now with a mini-album!

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BAND-MAIKO (regular edition cover)
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Last year, the rock band BAND-MAID released a music video as the renamed band, BAND-MAIKO, as an April Fool’s joke. In the music video, the band members wore traditional Japanese garb and sang in a specific Kyoto dialect reminiscent of maiko, which are apprentice geisha.

This April 1st, the band released another BAND-MAIKO song and video, and now they are releasing a mini-album on April 3rd!

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BAND-MAIKO: April fool’s music video “secret MAIKO lips”

Hard rock band BAND-MAID released a music video on April 1st. With it, they announced they changed the band’s name to BAND-MAIKO, and performed a song titled “secret MAIKO lips” dressed in kimono, with a shamisen backing track. In addition, the lyrics were re-written (from their original song “secret My lips”) into a Kyoto dialect.

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