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Release Date: 2020-12Labels: Second Royal, Felicity
Multi-media box set sold exclusively via the Second Royal website, available to pre-order from July 2020 and shipped December 2020. The box set was available with a choice of two t-shirts, and both options sold out in pre-order. An unspecified quantity was produced.The box set includes:
• a 7" single in die-cut sleeve with title sticker
• a CD-R, "Letters", consisting of eight home recorded untitled instrumentals (total running time 19:48)*
• a live DVD recorded at Tokyo Kinema Club 2019.04.20 and Tokyo LIQUIDROOM 2019.12.22 (total running time 44:32)*
• a band autographed postcard with a download code for the six live tracks from Tokyo Kinema Club 2019.04.20
• "Homecomings 2012-2019", a 266 page book/zine feat:
- flyers, posters, album artwork and previously unpublished photography
- band roundtable discussion
- dialogue between illustrator Sanuki Naoya and Homecomings' Yuki Fukutomi
- cover illustration by Homecomings' Ayaka Tatamino
• a cotton tote bag featuring a version of the main box illustration by Sanuki Naoya
• one of two t-shirts, in either a standard or "aged" version, both featuring the same "Daisy" design by NOI
• an A3 poster of the box cover art by Sanuki Naoya*
Media marked * are exclusive the box set. The remaining elements were all available to order separately.
The box is untitled (or self-titled), however it has been titled "Stairs" by guitarist Yuki Fukutomi* and is referred to as such at the Homecomings website. There is no overall catalogue number for the box and no barcode for either the box or its elements. Aside from their text credits in the book, the members of Homecomings are not credited among the contents as performers or songwriters. Similarly there are no credits for artists, photographers or production personnel other than those involved in the book.
The Tokyo Kinema Club live recordings feature a four-piece string section. Track 7 of the CD-R "Letters" includes playback of narration by the author Paul Auster of the story "Land Of The Lost" from his collection "I Thought My Father Was God".
Box manufactured by Box & Needle, Kyoto (uncredited).
* サヌキさんから送られてきたボックスのイラストをみたとき、なぜか真っ先に目がいってしまったのが下の方に2つ描かれた階段で、そこからしばらくその印象が頭の中から離れませんでした。だからタイトルは『STAIRS』にしました。
When I looked at the box illustration sent by Mr. Sanuki, for some reason the first thing I noticed was the two stairs drawn at the bottom, and for a while I couldn't get the impression out of my head. That's why I chose the title "STAIRS".