A MODERN AND NOSTALGIC INSTRUMENTAL GROUP FROM TOKYO JAPAN.
PLAYS AMERICAN AND ALL OTHER WORLDS BEAUTIFUL MELODIES IN A SENSITIVE STYLE. THE ONLY BAND IN JAPAN USES MUSICAL SAW IN THIS STYLE AND MAKES SENSE. COMBINES SAW, UKULELE, ACCORDION, VIOLIN, CLARINET IN AN EXOTIC-FUTURE, LO-FI WAY. THERE MUSIC REMINDS ME OF PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA FROM ENGLAND. SIMILAR BUT NOAHLEWIS MUSIC IS POST MODERN. A TYPE OF QUOTES THAT MAKES TIME AND SPACE OBSCURE. A SOUND THAT REMINDS ME THAT A SOUND IS MADE FROM A AIR WAVES. MAYBE OF THERE INCREDIBLE INTIMATE RECORDING SOUND. THAT THEY ARE DONE IN THE COMPLETELY 50S JAZZ STYLE. USING ALL THOSE VINTAGE MICROPHONES AND OFF COURSE TAPE RECORDER. THE INCREDIBLE ENGINEER AKITSUGU DOI WHO HAD WORKED WITH YMO AND TONS OF GREAT JAPANESE ARTISTS, MADE THE SOUND OF THE NEW ALBUM PLAYS. THEY WERE RECORDED IN TWO DAYS. SET UP AND PLAY AND PLAY. NO OVERDUBS. THEY STARTED AS MORE LIKE STRINGBAND AND JUG BAND TYPE BUT SOON THEY TURNED TO MARTIN DENNY EXOTICA, ALSO JAZZ LIKE SUN RA AND CHICO HAMILTON CHAMBER JAZZ STYLE. THEY ARE INTO NEW ORLEANS R&B NOW. THEY ARE ALL RECORD MANIACS, THEY EVEN OPENED THE INDEPENDENT RECORD SHOP IN SHIMOKITAZAWA, TOKYO. AND SELLING VINTAGE VINYL, WHICH THEY HAVE SELECTED IN THE STATES.
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SHORT STORY
AROUND 1997, IN SHIBUYA TOKYO. A GUY WHO WORKS FOR RECORD STORE, NAMED KOYA ABE, WAS A HIP- HOP GUY BUT SOON AS HE STARTED TO WORK FOR THE RECORD STORE THAT MOSTLY DEALS IN AMERICAN VINTAGE MUSIC, HE WAS CAPTURED BY THE GREAT GREAT CHARLIE PATTON AND THIS FACT WILL LEADS TO EVERYTHING HE DOES FROM NOW ON.
STARTED PICKING GUITAR AND HAWAIIAN GUITAR HE MET A ANOTHER GUY WHO BUYS THE SAME SORT OF RECORDS. HE WOULD BE THE GUITAR PLAYER OF NMT. THEN CAME THE NEW STAFF MEMBER OF THE RECORD STORE. HE WAS DRUMMER. BUT HE STARTED TO STRUM THE BANJO. THESE THREE BOYS ARE THE CORE OF THE GROUP. THE MEMBERS WERE GATHERED LIKE THIS. ALL OF THEM WERE KIND OF RECORD MANIACS. FIRST WE LIKED THE PRE WAR RACE MUSIC A LOT. WE WERE DOING STRING BANDS, NO ELECTRICITY AT ALL. BOUGHT VINTAGE GIBSON, MARTIN, NATIONAL, AND WE JUST PLAYED AND PLAYED AFTER THE STORE WAS CLOSED IN THE NIGHT.
BUT FIRST OF ALL WE WERE NOT TRYING TO DO AUTHENTIC AMERICAN VINTAGE MUSIC. AS WE WERE VINYL JUNKIES, WE WERE LISTING TO LOTS OF WEIRD STUFF. SAY, INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC. WE LOVED THE RE-SEARCH BOOK THAT FEATURED UNKNOWN STRANGE MUSIC. WE SIMPLY COULDN'T DO THE SAME THAT PEOPLE DID IN THE 20S IN SOME WAYS. SO WE SIMPLY DID WHAT WE COULD. THAT JUST HAPPENED TO BE VINTAGE AND STRANGE. AMAZINGLY THE TUNE WE PLAYED SOUNDED MORE LIKE THE AVAN GARADE STUFF. WE DIDN'T CARE FOR WHAT'S HAPPENING, AS WE JUST HAVING FUN, PEOPLE WISHED TO COME AND HERE US. ESPECIALLY IN THE RECORD STORE, JUST WATCHING HOW WE FOOL AROUND AND DRINK AND HAVE GOOD TIME. WE JUST DONE THIS ROUTINE ABOUT 3 YEARS JUST FOOLING. FINALLY CLOSE FRIEND FROM OSAKA DECIDED TO MAKE SOME RELEASES. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST TWO RELEASES FROM EM RECORDS. ALSO WE STARTED TO DO GIGS OUT SIDE. BUT EVERY ROCK LISTENERS WHO LOOKED US WAS JUST FREEEZED. THEY COULDN'T CATCH THE WAVES. BUT SOME PEOPLE DID. SO WE KEPT ON.
THEY HAVE DONE FRONT ACT OF
・JANET KLEIN,
・DAME DARCY (EVEN PLAYED WITH HER),
・GEOFF MULDUAR,
・AND LEGENDARY JAPANESE STUDIO GROUP OF 70S TIN PAN ALLEYS REUNION CONCERT. THIS GROUP INCLUDES HARUOMI HOSONO OF THE YMO.
