Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Sol-fa Album

Asian Kung-Fu Generation (Ajian Kanfū Jenerēshon), typeset as ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, is a Japanese rock band formed in Yokohama, Japan in 1996. For nearly its entire career, the band has consisted of vocalist Masafumi Gotō, guitarist Kensuke Kita, bassist Takahiro Yamada, and drummer Kiyoshi Ijichi. The band's musical style has been heavily influenced by seminal indie, punk, and alternative rock acts. As a result, their songs maintain a balance of various elements of the genres, most typically ranging from fast-paced and hard-edged to rhythmic and emotional. Despite the indie nature of their music, the band has enjoyed widespread commercial success in addition to critical acclaim and their songs have come to be been used for memorable opening themes of highly popular anime series.

Sol-fa (2004–2005)
When 2004 came around, AKG received the award for Best New Artist while their video for "Kimi to Iu Hana" won the award for Best Music Video. From January 19 to February 25, AKG held their first headline tour, Five Nano Seconds, which was comprised of thirteen shows. On July 1st, the band held their third ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION presents Nano-Mugen Festival at Nippon Budokan.. That following summer, the band went on to play in more than ten summer festivals, including Meet The World Beat, Rock In Japan Fes 04, and Fuji Rock Festival 04.

Over the course of the year, the band would release four more singles: "Siren" , "Loop & Loop" , "Rewrite" and "Kimi no Machi Made" , before releasing their second full-length album, Sol-fa on October 20th. The album would go on to sell more than 600,000 copies and debut at number one on the Oricon charts for two consecutive weeks. During its conception, fans from around the world organized and petitioned for copies of Sol-fa to be distributed outside of Japan. The support for Ajikan eventually resulted in Tofu Records striking a contract to release Sol-fa in the United States on October 18th. Following its release, "Rewrite" found fame both domestically as well as on an international level when it was chosen as the fourth opening theme for the anime series Fullmetal Alchemist. Around the same time, their song "Haruka Kanata," enjoyed similar success after being used for the second opening of the anime series Naruto. Asian Kung-Fu Generation spent the next two months on a national tour consisting of twelve shows called Tour SUI CUP 2004 -No! Member, November, which included a prestigious headliner at Nippon Budokan arena, and then released the year-end video DVD, Eizō Sakuhinshū Vol. 1 on November 26.

Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Sol-fa Album
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1. "ShindouKaku" (振動覚, Shindōkaku?, "resonance") – 2:27
2. "Rewrite" (リライト, Riraito?) – 3:47
3. "Kimi no Machi Made" (君の街まで, "Kimi no Machi Made"? "to your town") – 3:36
4. "My World" (マイ・ワールド, Mai wārudo?) – 4:03
5. "Yoru no Mukou" (夜の向こう, Yoru no mukō?, "Night´s other side") – 3:12
6. "Last Scene" (ラストシーン, Rasutoshīn?) – 4:01
7. "Siren" (サイレン, Sairen?) – 5:28
8. "Re:Re:" – 3:48
9. "24ji" (24時, Nijūyoji?, "24 hours") – 3:31
10. "Mayonaka to Mahiru no Yume" (真夜中と真昼の夢, "Mayonaka to Mahiru no Yume"? "midnight and midday dreams") – 4:21
11. "Kaigan Douri" ("海岸通り, Kaigan dōri?, "seafront") – 4:40
12. "Loop & Loop" (ループ&ループ, Rūpu & rūpu?) – 3:45