ODG224 : The Sad Bandits / Sayonara Onijiji

Cover art by Silas Plum

ODG224: The Sad Bandits / Sayonara Onijiji

Since their second album (see also ODG167, ODG191 and ODG194), The Sad Bandits started to have a big following in Japan and a fan club from Hiroshima invited them to perform in their live place and stay for 2 weeks in the city.

The Ribero brothers being huge Japanese enka music and old Ozu movies fans were excited at the idea to visit Japan and try to record their new album.

They made the foundation of 10 new tracks mixing enka, dialogues and street noise.

Back in their native Mexico they asked again Alinovsky and John Americus Witt to help them finishing, adding music and mixing the album.

The title of the album 'Onijiji' is an hommage to Onibaba (鬼婆), a Japanese movie from Kaneto Shindō, released in 1964.

Alternate cover for the digital providers

And the first proposal by Silas Plum

Digital release on the 26th of September 2025.

Track listing:

1: Ohayo

2: Miss Fumikichi

3: Meeting Fujimoto San

4: Interlude 1 - Ichiban

5: See you in Shibuya

6: Lost in Osaka

7: Interlude 2 - Niban

8: Manakai (Realtime rework)

9: Goodbye Ozu San

10: The one and only Shintaro Katsu

11: Interlude 3 - Sanban

12: Nan no hanashi nan deshoka ? Pachinko vs Osaka 70

13: Interlude 4 - Yonban

14: Kyoto in the blue

15: Dancing with Reiko

16: Soyonara Onijiji

Itunes, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon, etc.:

https://bfan.link/sayonara-onijiji

And on Bandcamp: