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Dan Mitchel、“愛着”をテーマにしたクリスマスミニアルバムをリリース。新作MV、主催イベント情報も!
「Free」「My Heart Is Still On Her」「Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas」——2025年に生まれた“愛着三部作”を核に、過去作2曲を編み直した5曲の物語
唯一無二のドラマティックアーティストのDan Mitchel が12月23日、“愛着”をテーマにしたEP 『Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas』 をリリースした。
本作は、HIP LAND MUSICによるデジタルディストリビューション&プロモーションサービス「FRIENDSHIP.」がデジタルリリースをサポートしている。
Dan Mitchelにとって2025年は、「愛着」という言葉と向き合わざるを得なくなった一年だった。これまで意識してこなかった概念を学び直すうちに、それが恋愛だけでなく、親子関係、友人関係、職場の上下関係、ひいては社会問題の多くの根にもつながる重大なテーマであることを実感したという。
本作には、2025年夏以降に立て続けに制作された 「Free」「My Heart Is Still On Her」「Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas」 を“愛着三部作”として中心に据え、さらに「愛着を意識していなかった頃」に書かれながら、今振り返ると同じテーマを歌っていたと感じる 「When I Think Of You…」「I swear…」 の2曲を収録。結果として、EPの曲順は不思議なほど リリース順=制作順 に収束した。偶然か、必然か——その並び自体が、“感情の時系列”になっている。
新曲:「Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas」
「Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas」はクリスマスソングでありながら、いわゆる“正統派”のそれとは異なる。Dan Mitchel自身はクリスチャンではなく、良くも悪くも異文化を取り込み、独自の風習へと変換してしまう “日本のクリスマス” の感覚を音楽に落とし込んだという。キーワードは 多様性/自由/統合。
サウンド面では、サビのコードを Abメジャー に据えた“Holy”な高揚感を核にしながら、冒頭は サルサのパーカッション で祝祭的に幕を開け、ブリッジではまるで異次元へ迷い込むような展開へ。転調を重ね、構成は大胆に飛躍するが、最終的には トニックへ帰還 し大団円を迎える。クリスマスソングでありつつ、日本人にとってはむしろ“年末”という節目の感情——散らかった一年を回収し、統合していく感覚に近いのかもしれない。
制作は、サビのメロディ/フレーズが先に立ち上がったところから始まり、制作途中は難航。だがある日、夢うつつの状態から「翌朝なら歌詞が書ける気がする」という確信が訪れ、一気に詞曲が完成した。複雑な構成ゆえアレンジには時間を要したが、十分に“聴く時間/生きる時間”を経た後、制作に入ると最終形は たった1日で完成 したという。
Lyric Video(和訳付):https://youtu.be/tTNx_Gv2tEY?si=ygkjJ8ISUv1yzB2s
「My Heart Is Still On Her」Music Video公開中
収録曲 「My Heart Is Still On Her」 はMusic Videoが制作され、YouTubeで公開中だ。
監督・主演はDan Mitchel。ハリウッド映画祭に入選した短編映画以降、初のMV制作となるが、
本作では抽象的にしか語られない歌詞世界を、ドラマとダンス によって耽美的に可視化している。
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LIVE情報:2026/1/22(木) 渋谷7th Floorにて「Dandy Asobi Club」開催
2026年1月22日(木)には渋谷7th Floor にて、“本気の遊び”を追究する総合芸術イベント 「Dandy Asobi Club」 を主催。今回はパイロット版としての開催となるが、定期開催を目指し、全国”Free”Tourと連動させることで「本気の遊び」の輪を全国へ、さらにはアート番組としての世界への輸出も視野に入れる。
音楽面では、いつものサポートメンバーにDJを交え、計算されたドラマティックな演出 と 即興 の“絶妙な塩梅”を更新するステージを目指すほか、芝居に即興演奏で音楽をつけていく企画や、世界的パントマイム師 北京一 氏とのコラボレーションも実施予定。出演希望者や持ち込み企画なども専用LINEオープンチャットにて募集中。
アーティストコメント
1年間、お疲れ様でした。
ありがたいことに、毎年毎年、新鮮な経験と気づきを得られて、
アーティスト冥利に尽きます。
来年もきっと、一筋縄ではいかないでしょうけど、
相変わらずな「行為の純度」を以て、この世で最も美しい営み、
つまりは「本気の遊び」を突き詰めていこうと思います。
どうか、ご期待ください。
良いお年を!
Dan Mitchel
[Music Video情報]
収録曲 「My Heart Is Still On Her」 のMusic Videoを制作。
監督・主演:Dan Mitchel/Dancer:Jasmine Mazlika/ヒロイン:亜衣子
MVリンク:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cldvXclPQIw
制作秘話:https://yep-net.com/2025/11/28/music-video-rhapsody/
[LIVE情報]
イベント名:Dandy Asobi Club
出演者:Dan Mitchel, 亜衣子(MC&Actor), Jasmine Mazlika(Dancer), 浦野運己(Actor&Samurai), 影田穂高(Bass), Gai Seki(Percussion), AiMii(DJ), 石井ひなた(Sax&Keyboard), 生井みづき(Actor&Media), Andrew HK(Piano), Aiko Yoshiba(Piano), Sessey(Dancer), 北京一(Pantomime)…etc
公演詳細
日時:2026年1月22日(木)
18:00開場 18:30開演 23:00終演
場所:渋谷7th Floor
前売りチケット(一般):5000円
前売りチケット(R30):3000円
前売りチケット(学生):2000円
詳細ページ/チケット購入:https://yep-net.com/2025/11/11/freestyle-session-club/
予告動画:https://youtu.be/JUlpDbyu-ag?si=IXfdBqKueRBmj085
【リリース情報】
◉Dan Mitchel「Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas」
2025/12/23(Tue) Digital Release
- When I Think Of You…(Ver.444)
- I swear…
- Free
- My Heart Is Still On Her
- Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas
視聴リンク:https://friendship.lnk.to/whasc_dm
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Dan Mitchel Releases a Christmas EP Themed Around “Attachment”
— Plus a New MV and Details on His Self-Produced Event!
“Free,” “My Heart Is Still On Her,” “Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas” — a five-song story built around 2025’s “Attachment Trilogy,” with two earlier tracks re-woven into the narrative.
On December 23, dramatic artist Dan Mitchel released his new EP Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas, centered on the theme of “attachment.” The digital release is supported by FRIENDSHIP., HIP LAND MUSIC’s digital distribution and promotion service.
For Dan Mitchel, 2025 was a year in which he was forced to confront the concept of “attachment.” As he revisited and re-learned an idea he had never consciously focused on before, he came to realize that attachment is not only about romantic relationships, but also a profound theme connected to parent-child relationships, friendships, workplace hierarchies, and even the roots of many social issues.
This EP places three songs created in rapid succession from summer 2025 onward — “Free,” “My Heart Is Still On Her,” and “Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas” — at its core as an “Attachment Trilogy.” It also includes two tracks — “When I Think Of You…” and “I swear…” — which were written “before he was aware of attachment,” yet now, looking back, feel as if they were singing about the same theme all along. As a result, the EP’s track order mysteriously converged into the same sequence as the release order — which also mirrors the creation order. Coincidence or inevitability? The lineup itself becomes a “chronology of emotion.”
New Song: “Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas”
While “Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas” is a Christmas song, it differs from what one might call an “orthodox” or “traditional” Christmas song. Dan Mitchel is not a Christian, and he says he translated into music the sense of “Japanese Christmas” — which, for better or worse, absorbs foreign cultures and transforms them into uniquely local customs. The keywords are: diversity / freedom / integration.
On the sound side, the song centers on a “holy” surge of emotion with the chorus set in A♭ major, while the intro opens the celebration with salsa percussion. Then, in the bridge, the song shifts as if you’ve wandered into another dimension. Though it boldly leaps through multiple modulations and a daring structure, it ultimately returns to the tonic for a triumphant resolution. Though it is a Christmas song, for Japanese listeners it may resonate more with the feeling of year-end closure — the sense of gathering up a scattered year and integrating it into one whole.
The production began with the chorus melody and key phrases coming first, but the process was difficult midway through. Then one day, in a half-dreaming state, Dan felt a sudden conviction: “I think I’ll be able to write the lyrics tomorrow morning.” In one burst, the song came together. Because of its complex structure, the arrangement took time — but after the piece had been given enough “time to be listened to / time to be lived with,” once production resumed, the final form was completed in just one day.
Lyric Video (with Japanese translation):
https://youtu.be/tTNx_Gv2tEY?si=ygkjJ8ISUv1yzB2s
“My Heart Is Still On Her” Music Video Now Available
A music video has been produced for the included track “My Heart Is Still On Her,” and it is now available on YouTube. Directed by and starring Dan Mitchel, this marks his first MV since the short film that was selected for a Hollywood film festival. In this work, the lyrical world — spoken only abstractly in the song — is made decadently visible through drama and dance. Please check it out as well.
Live Info: “Dandy Asobi Club” at Shibuya 7th Floor (Thu, Jan 22, 2026)
On Thursday, January 22, 2026, Dan will self-produce “Dandy Asobi Club,” a multidisciplinary arts event dedicated to pursuing “playing in earnest,” at Shibuya 7th Floor. This installment will be held as a pilot edition, but with the aim of becoming a regular series. By linking it with a nationwide “Free” Tour, the project seeks to expand the circle of “serious play” across Japan — and eventually to export it globally as an art program.
Musically, Dan plans a stage that updates the “exquisite balance” between carefully designed dramatic direction and improvisation, bringing in a DJ alongside his usual support members. The event also plans a project in which music is improvised live to accompany theatre scenes, as well as a collaboration with world-class pantomime artist Kyoichi Kita. Performers and proposal submissions are currently being accepted via the dedicated LINE Open Chat.
Artist Comment
Thank you for your hard work this past year.
I’m grateful that every single year brings fresh experiences and realizations — it’s truly the joy of being an artist.
Next year surely won’t be simple either, but with the same unwavering “purity of action,” I want to keep pursuing the most beautiful human endeavor in this world — in other words, “playing in earnest.”
Please look forward to it.
Wishing you a wonderful new year!
Dan Mitchel
[Music Video Info]
A music video has been produced for the track “My Heart Is Still On Her.”
Director / Lead: Dan Mitchel
Dancer: Jasmine Mazlika
Heroine: Aico
MV link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cldvXclPQIw
Behind-the-scenes story: https://yep-net.com/2025/11/28/music-video-rhapsody/
[Live Info]
Event Title: Dandy Asobi Club
Performers: Dan Mitchel, Aico (MC & Actor), Jasmine Mazlika (Dancer), Kazuki Urano (Actor & Samurai), Hodaka Kageta (Bass), Gai Seki (Percussion), AiMii (DJ), Hinata Ishii (Sax & Keyboard), Mizuki Namai (Actor & Media), Andrew HK (Piano), Aiko Yoshiba (Piano), Sessey (Dancer), Kyoichi Kita (Pantomime)…etc.
Show Details
Date: Thu, January 22, 2026
Doors: 18:00 / Start: 18:30 / End: 23:00
Venue: Shibuya 7th Floor
Advance Ticket (General): ¥5,000
Advance Ticket (R30): ¥3,000
Advance Ticket(Student):¥2,000
Details / Tickets: https://yep-net.com/2025/11/11/freestyle-session-club/
Trailer: https://youtu.be/JUlpDbyu-ag?si=IXfdBqKueRBmj085
Release Info
Dan Mitchel — “Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas”
Digital Release: Tue, Dec 23, 2025
- When I Think Of You… (Ver.444)
- I swear…
- Free
- My Heart Is Still On Her
- Welcome Home at Sweet Christmas
Listen: https://friendship.lnk.to/whasc_dm
Artist Links
Official Website: https://yep-net.com
Management Company: https://dramaticfrontier.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@danmitchel
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yep.dandy/
X (Twitter): https://x.com/yepdandy
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/yep.dandy
Official Blog: https://yep-net.com/category/blog/
DAN Juku: https://study8-yep.com
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