Back in 2012, Dir.F, a label manager at Tsubasa Records wanted to create a new music project featuring provisional female members. While the music and lyrics for the group would be created by music producer, Hidefumi Kenmochi.
The name of this group project would be “Suiyoubi no Campanellaâ€, which translates to Wednesday Campanella.
That same year, Dir.F was at a house party for a friend and he would meet KOM_I and he invited her to join Wednesday Campanella as one of the provisional female vocalists and the group would upload two tracks on YouTube that year, “Oz†and Kukaiâ€.
Wanting to push their album later that year, the group’s first CD titled “Suiyoubi no Campanella Demo 1†was sold at Design Festa Tokyo Autumn.
The following year, KOM_I would perform live performances with just her on stage and the group released their first mini album titled “Crawl to Saka Agari†and it was released at Village Vanguard Shimokitazawa.
But it wasn’t until 2014, when the group’s track “Momotaro†appeared on J-WAVE and would become popular.
In 2016, Wednesday Campanella would make their American debut at SXSW in Texas and would perform in July in San Francisco at J-POP Summit Festival.
While the first five mini albums were released by Tsubasa Records, the group would be signed by Warner Records and would release their first major label album “UMA†in 2016.
And since then, Wednesday Campanella’s popularity has skyrocketed. From a promotion and music video with Toyota for the Prius, multiple television performances, magazine interviews and live performances throughout Japan, KOM_I also appeared on the popular variety show “SMAP x SMAP†with SMAP (who also sung along with her).
J!-ENT’s Dennis A. Amith had the opportunity to interview KOM_I the day after Wednesday Campanella’s performance at J-POP SUMMIT.
Please click her for the full interview