With saucepans, a bowl, a wine-glass high-hat and some chopsticks to playfully clink them with, a cover version was born. Thinking it "too tricky to work out the chords to a Shiina Ringo song," it was with a cover of Kyu Sakamoto's "Sukiyaki" that Norwegian synth-pop four-piece Casiokids introduced themselves ahead of their Japan tour.
Updating the 1961 classic with crockery beats was smart, but it's the haunting harmonies in their native tongue that really make an impression.
"I truly believe one of our main goals as artists and musicians must be to create something unique and original, and the Norwegian language was, for us, a natural part in achieving that," says vocalist Ketil Kinden Endresen. "(The band) had a great time in Omar (Johnsen)'s living room coming up with the video."
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