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BRADIO Talk ‘PARTY BOOSTER,’ The Funky Party Album They Hope Will Put Smiles on Everyone’s Faces: Interview

Billboard Japan recently got to interview BRADIO, who recently put on a successful show in Chile as part of SUPER JAPAN EXPO 2024.

That got me into the Beatles, too, which got me thinking, “Hey, I like music, why not try playing it?” After that, I started listening to a lot of Japanese bands like Hi-STANDARD and L’Arc-en-Ciel. We were thinking “we have to be like this or that” or “we have to be inspiring.” But the conclusion we eventually arrived at was, “as long as in the end we’re putting smiles on people’s faces, then it’s all good, right?” Ryosuke Sakai: We have this fascinatingly steep gradation that goes from really simple to really complex, and there are a lot of places where I can show off my chops as a bassist, which is wonderful.

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