M3-39 News Part 1

There's still some time to go before M3-39, which will take place on Apr 30th.

152Hz - Figure Skating Compilation "KISS/CRY"
The concept of this album is "music that can be used for figure skating competition". It's split into "short program" and "free skating". There are songs from various genre, both instrumental and vocal.
http://152hz.soragoto.net/project/FSC/

MISHAORU - Closed parade
Folk female vocal duo is starting a new project called 遊園地プロジェクト 「シャオリムの嘘」 ("Project Amusement Park 'Shaorimu's Lies'"). "Closed parade" is the 1st single in the series, and there are 2 more singles planned.
http://31style.moo.jp/mishaoru/presents2017/

MemoriaSeries - メモリア書店 (Memoria Shoten)
An album that revolves around a fictitious book shop. Each song in the album corresponds to a different literary genre, such as mystery, horror, fantasy, adventure etc.
http://memoriaseries.nobody.jp/bookstore/

space. (kidlit/Fukami Chie) - PARADIGM SHIFT
Fukami Chie is now going by the new name kidlit. You might notice the name "kidlit" in the soundtrack of last year's anime Stella no Mahou. space. is the name of her new solo doujin circle, and "Paradigm Shift" will be her 1st EP under her new name.
https://www.kidlit.today/kl001

Episodes & Melody (Azell) - Oxygen
A new instrumental CD with atom as the theme. Each track is composed with a different chemical element in mind.
http://www.ep-melody.com/circle/oxygen/

A little bit (Goto Haruki) - 紅茶店マスカテル (Koucha-ten Muscatel)
The circle's 13th CD. The concept is a tea house.
http://alittlebit.jeez.jp/muscatel/

foolen - f for fetishism
foolen's new album.
http://foolen.web.fc2.com/fff2/

Mamyukka - エッカルト・ユンカーの驚異の部屋 (Eckart Junker's Wunderkammer)
Trust Mamyukka to come up with something different every time. The theme of their latest CD is the cabinets of wonder, also known as wunderkammer.
http://mamyukka.tank.jp/wunder/

M3-38 News Part 1

Yup, it's that time of year again. M3-38 will take place on October 30th.

Mamyukka - 世界空想楽大系 (Sekai Kuusougaku Taikei; World Fantasmusica System)
Mamyukka's 1st ever best album (and 17th CD). The album contains 15 tracks in total: 12 previously released tracks, 2 re-recorded tracks, and 1 new track. The album will also include an 80-page guide book detailing all their past music releases, from Evilz right up to M3-37's Theatre Etoile.
http://mamyukka.tank.jp/

MUSIRISCA (Yuria Miyazono) - Filou E.P.
Yuria's new EP previews 3 tracks that will appear in her upcoming album (to be released in 2017). The EP also includes a bonus track. The theme of the EP is a fragment about the forest of sorrow, woven with English words and multitrack chorus. FYI she also performed the vocal for one of the BGMs in this season's TV anime series Shuumatsu no Izetta.
http://www.musirisca.com/

SnowApple x I.L.C-Image Leaf Craft- x Tokkuri Kyuusu x FataMorgana - べつのせかい (Betsu no Sekai)
A collaboration between vocalist YuNa (FataMorgana), vocalist Kunii (Tokkuri Kyuusu), the circle SnowApple and composer Orikura Toshinori (I.L.C-Image Leaf Craft-).
http://fatamorgana.jp/

Kurayami Yokocyo x Episodes & Melody x Kimi no Oto. - Like a Night Fish - 川底幻燈イメージアルバム (Kawazoko Gentou Image Album)
A bit of an odd duck, this album is an "image compilation CD" for Kurayami Yokocyo's self-published manga Kawazoko Gentou. The composers are Azell (Episodes & Melody), Mashima Cocoro (Kimi no Oto.) and a_hisa. Takizawa Ichiru sings one of the tracks. An ambient album with a very dreamy feeling to it.
http://www.ep-melody.com/circle/ramune/

Seardrop (Sennzai) - Arrêter le temps
Vocalist Sennzai's 1st solo album. I don't know much about her, but I like what I've heard of the crossfade demo.
http://seardrop.net/secd0001/

Ether - 闇堕精霊譚
Ether has totally gone over to the high fantasy zone ever since they got Erumu Nagi as their vocalist. Anyway, their latest CD is a dark fantasy album told through battle symphonic rock, featuring female vocal and multitrack chorus in a make-up language.
http://www.ether-music.com/