Monkey Majik

Monkey Majik is a band that hails from Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. The band consists of two Canadians, brothers Maynard and Blaise Plant, and two Japanese members, drummer Takuya "Tax" Kikuchi and bass player Hideki ("Dick"). Monkey Majik's music is energetic pop-rock with lyrics in both English and Japanese. One of the Plant brothers, Maynard (blanc.), came to Japan in 1997 as an English teacher and speaks fluent Japanese. He then later invited his brother, Blaise Plant, to Japan to form a band due to the interest of music that they shared. The band's first big hit was the single "Around the World", the theme song of the TV drama Saiyuuki-Journey to the West. They have gone on since then to work on a number of collaborations with other J-pop artists, including hip-hop group m-flo ("Picture Perfect"), SEAMO ("Sotsugyo, Soshite Mirai e", and the 吉田兄弟 ("Change"). The album 空はまるで (Sora wa Maru de), was released July 25, 2007. Sora wa Marude is MONKEY MAJIK's fourth original full-length album. The first press of the album includes two bonus tracks from the Monkey Majik x Monkey Magic single. The song "Sora wa Marude" was used as the Yokohama Type image song. On September 2008, they released another album, TIME. They also made a collaboration with 土屋アンナ for the song GINGER that was featured in her album, NUDY SHOW! and was used for the Asahi Ginger Draft commercial song.