Charcoal Filter


Charcoal Filter, also known as Charcofil or Chakofiru to their fans, is a Japanese male rock band. Its members are Takahiro Konagawa, Yuzo Otsuka, Yuki Yasui, and Shintaro Takano. They met each other and formed Charcoal Filter in their high school days. After graduation from high school, they came out with the song "I start again" in 1999. They are known for creating the song "Tightrope", used as the ending theme of the anime series Gensōmaden Saiyūki, back in 2000. From 2002 to 2004 they were produced by Seiji Kameda. They disbanded in 2007.

History

In 1995 Konagawa, Yasui and Takano formed a band. The next year they incorporated Otsuka as a vocalist, and named the band Charcoal Filter. At first they played Green Day’s songs, which they like, and then they began to play their own songs composed by themselves.
In early 1999 they recorded several songs in New York City for debut. In September of the same year the indie album Gimme a light was released. Two months later they came out with the debut single I start again. The next year they created the song Tightrope, used as the ending theme of the anime series Gensōmaden Saiyūki.
The year 2002 the turning point in their career came. The eighth single Brand-New Myself ~Boku ni Dekiru Koto was a hit. Following this single, the album MADE IN Hi-High took the sixth place in weekly Oricon chart, as obtained them a reputation.

Members

Singles

  1. I start again
  2. Let’s go
  3. Nineteen
  1. Life goes on
  2. Single word
  3. Snow drive
  1. Don’t miss it
  2. Turning point
  1. Tightrope
  2. Tightrope -Medieval version-
  3. Tightrope -Instrumental version-
  1. Kizuna
  2. Kizuna -Instrumental-
  3. The Go-Ahead Man
  1. Hajikeyō
  2. Jumpin’ high
  3. Libido
  1. Kodokuna Taiyō
  2. Communication
  3. La La
  1. Sotsugyō
  2. Romantic
  3. Mother Blues
  1. Brand-New Myself ~Boku ni Dekiru Koto
  2. 2,000 Light Years Away
  3. Brand-New Myself ~Boku ni Dekiru Koto , Brand-New Myself ~What I Can Do )
  1. White winter song
  2. WOW WOW PARADISE
  3. Sotsugyō ~Okuru Koto Version~
  4. White winter song ~Instrumental~
  1. Yasashisa Licence
  2. BY MY SIDE
  3. Yasashisa Licence -Instrumental-
  4. BY MY SIDE -Instrumental-
  1. Niji
  2. Beautiful Sandy
  3. Niji -Instrumental-
  4. Beautiful Sandy -Instrumental-
  1. one Days
  2. Kiss on the beach
  3. one Days -Instrumental-
  4. Kiss on the beach -Instrumental-
  1. Hitori ja Totemo Aruke nai Sekai no Ue de
  2. Motto
  3. Arigatō

    Albums

Spiky
June 21, 2000

  1. Snow drive
  2. Don’t miss it
  3. Tightrope
  4. My red boots
  5. Ideal
  6. D’d
  7. Life goes on
  8. Spiky
  9. Single word
  10. Turning point
  11. Kick up myself
  12. Time passed by
  13. Say what you say
  14. Cultural blind
  15. I start again
MADE IN Hi-High
September 4, 2002

  1. Music
  2. Liberty
  3. Kazematic
  4. Brand-New Myself
  5. Lonely holiday
  6. Seeds of future
  7. Happy hungry days
  8. Nichijō
HAPPY SET
September 25, 2003

  1. Niji
  2. Nana port
  3. Ame ga Agareba Natsu ga Hajimaru
  4. Yasashisa Licence
  5. Yellow Cabriolet
  6. My girl
  7. Satsuki
  8. Demo Tape , Demo Tape )
Gimme a light 2
May 11, 2005
Indie album

  1. Tune up featuring Annie
  2. a party song
  3. Workin’ Dog after work
  4. Place
  5. Honey Money
  6. Love
  7. music slave
Everything you know is wrong
January 10, 2007

  1. Asu e Hanate
  2. everlasting
  3. society
  4. Small Wonderland
  5. Futatsu Boshi
  6. aurora
  7. sunnyday holiday
  8. Muffin Song
  9. Ashita to yū Na no Kinō ni Sayonara
  10. Yell
  11. Hitori ja Totemo Aruke nai Sekai no Ue de

DVDs

Charcoal Filter often give a live concert. They have played all Japanese prefectures. Their performance is appreciated by their own generation. Also, Konagawa and Otsuka appeared at well-known Japanese musical event Dream Power John Lennon Super Live back in 2003.