Ikimono-gakari Single

After achieving good sales with their newest album Hajimari no uta, pop-rock trio Ikimono-gakari are already working on a new single to be released on March 10th.

The band is providing two new songs to be used in the soundtrack of the 2010 version of the movie "Toki wo kakeru shoujo". These songs are the single's title track Nostalgia and the b-side Toki wo kakeru shoujo, originally composed by singer Yumi Matsutoya and sung by Tomoyo Harada.

Nostalgia might not be unknown to fans, as it was once released back on the band's debut mini-album Makoto ni senetsu nagara First Album wo koshiraemashita... in 2003. However, the group has reworked the melody of the song for the film in a new recording version.

"Toki wo kakeru shoujo" was originally released in 1983, in which Tomoyo Harada made her acting debut and provided the same title track as the movie's theme song. Ikimono-gakari have re-recorded the song, which will be included on the single along with an alternative version of their hit single YELL and Nostalgia's instrumental counterpart.

In other news, Ikimono-gakari have another new song, called Arigatou, being aired in Japanese TV as the tie-in song of NHK's drama "Gegege no nyoubou". Arigatou was fully composed by band member Mizuno Yoshiki.