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Our project to create Ongaku France was born in August 2005: Lovely and Emi were already members of an association, but it had a lot of legal problems (to sum up and among others: because of its statutes, it couldn't achieve some of its important aims), which was quite frustrating; meanwhile, Polochon got angrier and angrier facing some problems "between people in the business" (to sum up: a little too much "elitist mentalities"): instead of getting angry forever, which never leads anywhere, we decided we should make our own structure, which would match a little better the way we think things should be done.
We wanted to make an association of it because:
1) It will allow us to organize activities close to those you could find at Japanese fan-clubs. For example, we wish to organize afternoons and/or evenings where we would organize activities around this or that artist, goodies will be sold only to members of our association, when we will organize an important event or signing session our members will have a prioritary access, and so on... You can't subscribe to our association yet because everything went a little quickly for us: we have ideas about what we would like to do, but didn't have time to think about the way we could make some of it concrete!: We prefer opening subscriptions only from the moment we will have more concrete things to propose you.
2) Jrock/visual-kei has been somehow "trendy" lately in our countries, but who knows how long this will last... And it's never good to limit the activity of a society to one country or limited part of the globe (it's even more limted than bands of a -musical genre- after all). Maybe things would be different for us if the music industry wasn't going through such a bad phase (because it is in an awful situation in Western countries), but as things are now... we only wish not to lose money, so it's better to create an association than to have to close a society a few months only after it was created!
3) An association shows more transparency and is more opened/friendly than a society: it suits the "philosophy" of what we first wanted to create far better than a society.
As for music styles we don't really have any preference: as long as we like the music we're ready to work over the artist or band, would it be pop, visual-kei or jrock/heavy. Indeed, we use a most democratical system: for us to decide to work over an artist, the three members of our staff have to agree, or at least none of them has to strictly and definitely refuse! Right now, we work over Gackt, Tomoe Shinohara and Uchuu Sentai Noiz.
Our wish is to make people discover the originality and quality of Asian bands, and Japanese bands more specifically, to those who wouldn't know of them yet. The main quality of these bands being that, contrary to occidental bands, they don't jail themselves into one musical style, and one only: it is quite common to hear on a same album some pop music, some rock, some heavier, some jazzy-like sometimes, and so on (depending on bands)... Musical diversity rules!
See you soon at one of the events we will organize or to which we will participate,
-Ongaku France staff-
-completed on: January 30th, 2006-