Nitrogen and Neon

Welcome to the Nitrogen and Neon Blog. The official Blog of Richard Loffman, a British Musician and former film-maker, currently living in Yokohama, Japan.

Saturday, January 03, 2009

Nitrogen and Neon

This is the new blog site for all things Rich Loffman's music and video news. Tribal Pictures Japan blog is no longer in service, however all the old posts are still available at this blog.










Welcome to the Nitrogen and Neon blog.

A New Year and a new me

Hey there and a happy New Year! It's 2009 already and I haven't done half of the things that I set out to do when I set up this blog back in 2006. Back then I was just starting out with film and music in Japan and I hadn't really got any ideas where it was going to take me, but I'd imagined that the journey might be somewhat interesting. Here, 3 years later I am looking back at the last 3 years and see that I have had some great experiences and great times. I have played live and recorded with MJ Ultra, made several short films and music videos and took part in Design Festa. All of them leading me towards 2009 and some new directions.

Firstly, I have made the decision to leave MJ Ultra. I will be starting my own band in 2009, so I hope that will occupy a lot of my free time. I have already written quite a few songs so now it's just a matter of getting a band together and getting into the studio to rehearse it all. I am hoping to play live before the summer. I will confirm my bands line-up pretty soon (I have a bass player and drummer lined up) as well as the name (which I have already decided).

For the last 4 years I have been making my short films and videos under the name Tribal Pictures Japan. I have decided that I will be closing that site and no longer using that name from this point forward. I will be 're branding' myself as Nitrogen Video and the website will be launched before the end of the of January. At this pint I will also close the Tribal Pictures Japan website. Nitrogen video will be primarily for music videos.