Japanese New Audio Festival – Music Review
Hotter and muggier than sh*t within the underground subway, three musicians (YoshidaTatsuya from Ruins, Tsuyama Atsushi and Kawabata Makoto from Acid Moms Temple) type seven models!! A cappella, comic totally free type, progressive core, troubadour, cosmic psychedelic. The scent is notorious and it arrived via with the underground evening of audio which was to not be forgotten.
These 3 virtuosos carry on to amaze. Scorching off the airplane from their offered out display in SF they arrived in manic fashion to supply a sweaty crowd the beautiful emotions of humor, sadness and thoughts blowing rock. I had by no means observed Yoshida drum and when he did his Ruins solo set it blew my thoughts. His one handed snare, his capability to change genres mid tune, his utilization of a sampler produced me so pleased that I used to be there as being a witness. His effective drumming was as well incredible.
I could not wait to determine the last set of AMT SWR with that type of assault and it did not allow me to down. All of the sets had been pretty brief such as the AMT SWR set and played at a quicker tempo than the majority of their other exhibits because the Melting Paraiso or even the Cosmic Inferno. Pink Lady Lemonade continues to be a staple from the AMT set to get a whilst now and I used to be pleased to listen to it buzzing from Makotos guitar at document tempo. It had been a brief intro with all the melody after which rapidly into psychadelia after which almost as rapidly it had been back again in to the melody line brief and smiling and sweet. The musicians had been inside a sauna on stage and also the crowd had it even worse. It had been packed and sweaty and scorching like great previous LA.
Another functions consisted of mixtures from the 3 gurus inside a singing trio grouped about one mic, a foolish set from Tsuyama and Yoshida enjoying everyday products with get in touch with mics (such as zipper tune, toothbrushing tune, scissor tune and consuming tune) a set of extremely well-known cover songs, and some truly good ambient violin drone function from Makoto.
These men did this nine display tour on an across the globe airplane ticket and each and every quit was a 24 hour layover. All of us desired to go consuming however they had been staying at a hotel close to LAX to catch an early flight for his or her initial display in Mexico Metropolis.
Here is a checklist from the bands and their descriptions that played the festival:
- ZUBI ZUVA X (Yoshida/Tsuyama/Kawabata)
Eccentric poly-rhythmic a cappella ensemble. It addresses from Gregorian chant to ethnic audio, to do-wop to hardcore screaming, seriously utilizing irregular rhythms and polyrhythm. A variety of suggestions and aberrant musicality overturn the picture of the cappella. their completely meaningless lyrics and desperate performances throw the audiences in to the abyss from the laughter and admiration. it can make the idea of “singing ability”nonsense.
- AKATEN (Tsuyama/Yoshida)
Shaped in 1995 with all the motto of “irresponsibleness” and “perfunctoriness.” They effortlessly totally free on their own through the spell from the conventional seriousness from the artwork. Utilizing every day commodities like scissors, toothbrush, zipper, digital camera, and plastic bottle as percussions, and shouting their brand name names again and again because the “songs,” the display is carried out beneath the idea of reduced price and optimum sound impact. AKATEN will be the experimental comfort shop punk band that offers the sound pictures of inexpensive and easy every day lives.
- RUINS ALONE (Yoshida)
RUINS is pioneer of Drum & Bass duo. Tunes are complicated and mysterious, and songs are sung within the language of their own invention. It’s high-tension, wild, heavy, speedy, acute, and effective tremendous ensemble by no means sounds like they are only two players. since last bassist left Yoshida still seeking a bassist and currently he continues to be enjoying as RUINS ALONE. enjoying RUINS songs with sampling bass. this time Yoshida will play songs from Koenji Hyakkei and Korekyojinn as well.
- ZOFFY (Tsuyama/Kawabata)
Shaped in 1998. Zoffy’s audio hints both at the members’ deep musical knowledge via their improvised performances of troubadour audio and European trad, and also at their deep love for rock via their destructivist addresses of classic rock songs, that no longer sounds like anything but ZOFFY. The group believes that humor is essential in audio, and their unprecedented performances stray far through the beaten track. Is this the Ultima Thule that rock audio has long been aiming for?
- SHRINP WARK (Kawabata/Yoshida)
A new improvising duo consisting of Yoshida from Ruins and Kawabata from AMT. group inspired by This Heat and band name taken from their tune “Shrink Wrap”. Cosmic chemical reaction sound that embraces a multidimensional chaos based upon the principles of minimalism, an anarchistic warping from the time axis, and ultra-accelerated revolving of time particles.
- ACID Moms TEMPLE SWR (Kawabata/Tsuyama/Yoshida)
Acid Moms Temple have rapidly become acclaimed because the greatest, most extreme trip psychedelic group within the globe. Releases have appeared on labels across the globe at an incredible tempo, and also the magnificence of their live performances is already being whispered of as legendary. SWR will be the AMT Family’s most effective battle-formation yet. featuring Tsuyama and Kawabata through the original AMT and Yoshida from Ruins. their crushingly acute freakout sound will pulverize the world’s legions of wannabe psych groups.
- SEIKAZOKU (Kawabata/Tsuyama/Yoshida)
Shaped in 1996. The expansive musicality from the group, which nonchalantly references classic prog and rock, ethnic audio, jazz and contemporary composition, is backed up the 3 members’ impressive backgrounds and also the depth of their musical knowledge. Improvised audio for holy trinity heresy that runs the full gamut of ethnic and electric instruments, primitive stupidity, the suspicious stench of medieval alchemy, the raw power of early rock audio, all leavened with a pinch of cosmic incoherency.






