Green Milk from the Planet Orange are a band from

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 ...

formed in 2001 after the breakup of the band ''No rest for the dead''. Their music combines elements of

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 ...

prog-rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...

and punk. The band had several line-up changes, but was always centered on members A (drums, synth), dead k (guitar) and various

bassists A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), synthbass, keyboard bass or a low bra ...

(T, Benjian and Margarette H). In May 2007 their clip "''Demagog''" was number one of Google Videos "''Top 100 Videos - United States''" ranking. The band got considerable attention for an experimental band with a small, but devoted cult following outside Japan, until it announced its breakup in October 2008, due to artistic differences between members A and dead K. The band regrouped on February 28, 2012, with A, T, and dead k playing a single show at Kichijoji GOK Sound Studio. According to the City Calls Revolution liner notes, the following instruments are used by the band: *Korg MS-2000 *Fender Jazz Bass *Gibson SG

Discography

* ''The Shape of Rock to Come'', 2001, Ancient * ''Birth of the Neo Trip'', 2002, Ancient * ''He's Crying "Look"'', 2004, Beta-Lactam Ring * ''City Calls Revolution'', 2005, Beta-Lactam Ring * ''Pirate Radio (digital only)'', 2006, Beta-Lactam Ring * ''You Take me to the World'', 2007, Beta-Lactam Ring *Third, 2019, Inferior Planet

External links

MySpace

References

{{Authority control Japanese rock music groups Musical groups from Tokyo