* The reason of offer * 0:35-2:15
SR "To begin with, why?"
Mummy-D "Because I was fan from the first."
SR "Did you feel me like Golden Gai?"
MD "I can't get 'Golden Gai' at all. What is 'Golden Gai'?"
SR "I was used to be written like 'Carmen Maki in Heisei-era'"
MD "I didn't have too much information."
SR "Really?"
MD "I thought amazing person, beautiful person."
SR "(what will I do to this?)"
MD "(laugh)"
MD "When I started Maboroshi, It was first to me to form band.
It was the time right after you started Tokyo Jihen.
And I listen in earnest and it was so attractive."
SR "Thank you very much"
MD "Then we made list of peoples who we want to feature.
Top of the list is like KOHEI Japan (his younger brother)
who we can call easily, to the bottom of list is like Kuwata Keisuke
who is highly impossible. Almost end, I wrote 'Shiina Ringo -just kidding'"
SR "Really? I'm so glad."
MD "Then I got OK, I became nervous."
SR "(laugh)"
MD "It's no good, no good. You must not concern something like hip hop."
SR "What is it?"
MD "It's like parent affection ? I don't know"
SR "No, no, I was very happy."
MD "Really? I was so nervous. What I would do ? How to make songs?"
Edit:
When they debut there might be not so much difference between Carmen Maki and Asakawa Maki
Few years later Carmen Maki went to Rock represented her band Carmen Maki & Oz,
while Asakawa Maki is Jazz singer apparently.
Edit2:
Carmen Maki was born in 1951 to Irish/Jewish American father and Japanese mother.
She had American citizenship and real name was Maki Annete Lovelace till 1993
when she switched Japanese citizenship.