Tenniscoats is a Japanese band with two members, Saya & Takashi Ueno, but they often have guest musicians (and non-musicians) playing and performing with them. The guest musicians are for example, Secai, LSD March, Eddie Marcon, Popo, Saibou Bungaku, Tetsuya Umeda, Kazumi Nikaido, etc. Saya and Takashi have also performed in many other underground bands, such as

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, Cacoy, Puka Puka Brians,

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and others. Saya and Takashi have also released solo works. Their music has been classified as

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and

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; Saya herself has been known to label their sound, "avant pops". Saya and Takashi met at

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, where they were students. In December, 2008, Saya collaborated with Satomi of

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on a one-off project called OneOne. The album was released on

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(Japan) and Aquarius Records (United States). In 2009, Takashi began the psych-folk group, Kasumi Trio. The other members are Shinsuke Michishita (from LSD March),

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(from

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). In 2016 they played on a small festival - Alien Disko - in Munich which was managed by members of

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. Together with

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of The Nowist they founded a new band Spirit Fest which is playing very silent, melancholic english and japanese songs.

Discography

*The Theme of Tenniscoats (2000) *The Ending Theme (2002) *We Are Everyone (2004) *Live Wanderus (2005) *Totemo Aimasho (2007) *Tan-Tan Therapy (2008) - Collaboration with Tape *Tenniscoats & Secai (2008) *Temporacha (2009) *Two Sunsets (2009, Domino Records) - Collaboration with

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*Tokinouta (2011) *Papa's Ear (2012) *All Aboard! (2012,

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) - Collaboration with

*Yaki-Läki (2013, Õunaviks Records) - Collaboration with Pastacas *Healthy in California (2015
Lotushouse Records
- Collaboration wit
Maquiladora

References

External links

Tenniscoats - A Take Away Show - "Baibaba Bimba"
April 2010
Tenniscoats interview with TADA Music, July 2008, in EnglishTenniscoats_Interview_with_Alchemy_SBS_Radio
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