| "Sometime Samurai" | |
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| Promotional single by Towa Tei featuring Kylie Minogue | |
| from the album Flash | |
| Released | 2005 |
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| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 3:59 |
| Label | V2 |
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| Producer(s) | Towa Tei |
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| "Sometime Samurai" on YouTube | |
"Sometime Samurai" is a song by Japanese music producer Towa Tei featuring vocals by Australian singer Kylie Minogue for Tei's fifth studio album, Flash (2005). The song was originally recorded as an instrumental demo in 1996 for Minogue's album Impossible Princess (1997), alongside "GBI (German Bold Italic)". It remained unfinished for eight years until Minogue re-recorded her vocals in 2004 in London. Several Japanese musicians contributed to the making of the song, including singer-songwriter Chisato Moritaka on drums. In it, a rock song with elements of house music, Minogue sings about her then-boyfriend, French photographer Stéphane Sednaoui.
In 2005, "Sometime Samurai" was released in Japan as a promotional radio single, and was included in two EPs: Melody / Sometime Samurai and Fresher. It received a significant amount of airplay in Tokyo, becoming the year's 47th most-played song on the radio station J-Wave. An accompanying music video, directed by Daniel Gorrel, shows two graffiti artists riding on mopeds. The video was nominated for the MTV Video Music Awards Japan for Best Dance Video. Tei played the song during his promotional tour for Flash in Tokyo in 2005, before Minogue filmed an interlude video for the track during her KylieX2008 tour three years later.