Yumin cover and Vitamin-M airs the new songs

Last night's Vitamin-M aired both of Maaya's new songs to the public for the first time. It's a pity that they don't include the songs on the podcast as I think staying up till 1.30am is a bit of a push! Still, rather cool.

One of the editor's of the Sai-zen-sen blog also posted up a picture of the CD that will be included in the next release of 'Full Moon Recital Hall' here as a preview. This was my favourite of all four stories so I will definitely be buying this one. In case you haven't been following it, deltafour has been posting a week by week bi-lingual version on his site here. Highly reccomended!

Have a nice weekend!

EDIT: By the way, Luminaire over at Jpopmusic informed me that the coupling song to one of the new singles 'A HAPPY NEW YEAR' is a Yumi Matsutoya cover. You can listen to the original on Youtube. Here's a rough translation of the lyrics ^^

Lyrics: MATSUTOUYA Yumi
Music: MATSUTOUYA Yumi
Arrangement: MATSUTOUYA Masataka
Romanization: Per M JENSEN

"Happy New Year!"
Let's hurry through the frozen avenues
To the room of my beloved you
Faster, faster, so that this year too
you will be the first person I see

"Happy New Year!"
Please give me a brand new kiss
And then the street will be overflowing with the sound of bells
I pray that this year too
You will be blessed with good fortune, always, always

"Happy New Year!"
Ah, where will today come from?
I lose myself in the cheerful crowds
Just like this I want to grow one year older
Loving you, forever, forever

I pray that this year too
You will be blessed with good fortune, always, always