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Kousokuya
is a Japanese dark psychedelic rock band. This rock outfit, founded by guitarist Jutok Kaneko in the late 1970s, has released only a handful of recordings internationally, and scant more in their local Tokyo underground scene. Kaneko died on January 24, 2007. Line-up The classic trio line-up that recorded the first album, and reformed in recent years was: * Jutok Kaneko (guitar, vocals) *Ikuro Takahashi (ex-High Rise, Fushitsusha) (drums) *Mick (bass, vocals) Other members: *Hiroshi Yokoyama (synth, 1978-1979), *Toshiko Watanabe (drums, 1979), *Asahito Nanjo Asahito Nanjo (南條麻人) is a Japanese underground musician, best known for his psychedelic rock groups High Rise, Mainliner and Musica Transonic, and the ethnic improvisation unit Toho Sara. He has been active on the Tokyo underground sce ... (bass, 1982-1983), * Munehiro Narita (drums, 1982-1983), *Atsushi Ishiguro (drums, 1983–84), *Takahashi Ikurou (drums, 1989–90), *Hibari Nagao (drums, 1994-1997), *E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jutok Kaneko
Jutok Kaneko (金子寿徳) (1958 – 24 January 2007) was a Japanese guitarist and vocalist, and is best known for his work with Tokyo underground psychedelic rock group Kousokuya (光束夜), who specialised in rock-based soundscapes characterised by the feeling of infinite space, desolate emotion and imminent chaos. History Kaneko was born in the city of Maebashi in Gunma prefecture in 1958. He started studying guitar around 1972, and in 1975 he formed a group called Kokugaiso (黒涯槍) with Masayuki Noguchi (野口雅之). The group specialized in multi-media performance, blending poetry with music, art and dance. After moving to Tokyo, Kaneko continued to work perform using the Kokugaiso name. Concurrently, he formed a rock group called Kousokuya in 1978, with Mick (vocals), Hiroshi Yokoyama (synthesizer), and Toshiko Watanabe (drums). The group played their first gig at the Tokyo underground venue Minor in 1979, and became one of the central groups in the improv-noise-ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ikuro Takahashi
Ikuro Takahashi (高橋幾郎 Takahashi Ikuro in Japanese) (born in 1957, Kamisunagawa, Hokkaido) is a drummer and percussionist based in Sapporo, also plays electronic and oscillators. He has been a central member of many groups from the Tokyo psychedelic underground from the early eighties. Some of the groups he has played with include Fushitsusha, High Rise, Kousokuya, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Ché-SHIZU, Nagisa ni te, LSD March, Gu-N, and Akebonoizu, Tetsuya Umeda and Fumio Kosakai of Incapacitants. He has performed under the name Anoyondekigoto since 2000, a unit project with a Butoh danceYoko Muronoi1959- 2017). He runs his own label Galleria Zarigania since 2007. Discography Fushitsusha * 2012 Mabushii Itazura na Inori (CD, Heartfast) * 2012 Hikari To Nazukeyou (CD, Heartfast) * 1998 A little longer thus (CD, Tokuma) * 1998 The Wisdom Prepared (CD, Tokuma) * 1998 Withdrawe, this sable disclosure 'ere devot'd (CD, Les Disques Victo) * 1998 I saw it! that which be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asahito Nanjo
Asahito Nanjo (南條麻人) is a Japanese underground musician, best known for his psychedelic rock groups High Rise, Mainliner and Musica Transonic, and the ethnic improvisation unit Toho Sara. He has been active on the Tokyo underground scene since the late seventies. Part of his sonic aesthetic is to record, mix, and master using extreme levels of distortion, dynamic range compression, and clipping making the sound of the instruments unrecognizable. The results can be said to contain elements of noise music. Musical activity Below are the main groups with which he has been involved from 1979 to the present: * Red Alert (psychedelic punk group, 79–81) * Red (experimental performance, 79–89) * Conformist (dark psychedelic group, 81–82) * Deaf and Dumb House (esthetic improvisation unit, 81–82) * Virus Freak (avant-garde free rock group, 81–82) * Tako (avant-garde performance group, 81–82) * I'm useless (strange free rock unit centring on Tamio Shiraishi, 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychedelic Rock
Psychedelic rock is a rock music Music genre, genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelia, psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporated new electronic sound effects and recording techniques, extended instrumental solos, and improvisation. Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often applied spuriously. Originating in the mid-1960s among British and American musicians, the sound of psychedelic rock invokes three core effects of LSD: depersonalization, dechronicization, and dynamization, all of which detach the user from everyday reality. Musically, the effects may be represented via novelty studio tricks, electronic music, electronic or non-Western instrumentation, disjunctive song structures, and extended instrumental segments. Some of the earlier 1960s psychedelic rock musicians were based in contemporary folk music, folk, jazz, and the blues, while others showcased an expl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Rise (band)
''High Rise'' was a noise rock band from Tokyo, Japan formed in 1982. The core of the band has consisted of bassist Asahito Nanjo and guitarist Munehiro Narita. The group named themselves after the 1975 novel ''High Rise'' by J. G. Ballard. Their music draws from psychedelic music, free jazz, and improvisational music. History High Rise were originally performing under the name Psychedelic Speed Freaks and contained members Masashi Mitani, Asahito Nanjo, Munehiro Narita, and Ikuro Takahashi. They decided to change their name at the advice of P.S.F. Records, which claimed Psychedelic Speed Freaks sounded "too direct". Discography ;Studio albums *'' II'' (1986, P.S.F.) *''Dispersion'' (1992, P.S.F.) *'' Disallow'' (1996, P.S.F.) *''Desperado'' (1998, P.S.F.) ;Live albums *''Psychedelic Speed Freaks'' (1984, P.S.F.) *''Live'' (1994, P.S.F.) *''Psychobomb -U.S. Tour 2000-'' (2000, P.S.F.) ;Compilation albums *''Psychedelic Speed Freaks '84-'85'' (1997, Time Bomb A time bomb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fushitsusha
Fushitsusha (不失者) is a Japanese rock band specialising in experimental and psychedelic rock genres. The band consists of electric guitarist and singer Keiji Haino, and a shifting cast of complementary musicians. The group released the majority of its material in the 1990s. History Haino formed Fushitsusha in 1978, although their first LP was not released until 1989. The band initially consisted of Haino on guitar and vocals, and Tamio Shiraishi on synthesizer. After the departure of Shiraishi, Ayuo joined briefly in 1979 before Fushitsusha became a trio with the addition of Jun Hamano (bass) and Shuhei Takashima (drums). The lineup soon changed, adding Yasushi Ozawa (bass) and Jun Kosugi (drums) throughout the 1990s. Their 1993 album '' Allegorical Misunderstanding'' was released on John Zorn's record label, Avant, although most of their albums have come out on independent label PSF and on major label Tokuma. Fushitsusha recently returned to duo status, with Haino supple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munehiro Narita
Munehiro (written: 宗弘 or 宗広) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese samurai and writer *, Japanese decathlete *, Japanese military figure Other uses *MUNEHIRO, the name used by the Japanese actress Sarina Suzuki Sarina Suzuki (鈴木 紗理奈; born July 13, 1977) is a Japanese actress, singer, tarento and former gravure idol. Career Born in Osaka, Suzuki debuted first as a gravure idol in 1994. She soon became active on television variety shows, notably ... when recording as a reggae artist {{given name Japanese masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Rock Music Groups
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