Captured during their 2023 tour, the super-energetic, instrumental Japanese avant-rock duo of drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Koenji Hyakkei, &c) and bassist Kentaro Nakao (Number Girl, &c) selected the best of their rugged and bewilderingly skillfull improvisations from three concerts at Bordland in Sendai, at Crates in Morioka and at Sublime in Aomori.
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Tatsuya Yoshida-drums, voiCe, Kaossilator
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Limited edition of 300 copies.
Label: Magaibutsu Limited
Catalog ID: MGIS-05
Squidco Product Code: 33516
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2023
Country: Japan
Packaging: Fold out color poster in plastic sleeve
Recorded live at Bordland, in Sendai, Japan, on March 31st, 2023, at Crates, in Morioka, Japan, on April 1st, 2023, and at Sublime, in Aomori, Japan, on April 2nd, 2023, by Tatsuya Yoshida.
Captured during their 2023 tour, the super-energetic, instrumental Japanese avant-rock duo of drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Koenji Hyakkei, &c) and bassist Kentaro Nakao (Number Girl, &c) selected the best of their rugged and bewilderingly skillfull improvisations from three concerts at Bordland in Sendai, at Crates in Morioka and at Sublime in Aomori.
Limited edition of 300 copies.
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• Show Bio for Tatsuya Yoshida "Tatsuya Yoshida, born in Kitakami, Iwate is a Japanese musician; drummer and composer who is the only consistent member of the renowned progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as Koenji Hyakkei. He is also a member of the progressive rock trios Korekyojinn and Daimonji. Outside his own groups, Yoshida is renowned for his tenure as drummer in the indie progressive group YBO2, a band also featuring guitarist KK Null, whom he also joins in the current line up of Zeni Geva and he has played drums in a late edition of Samla Mammas Manna. He has been cited as "[the] indisputable master drummer of the Japanese underground". Along with his participation in bands, he has also released several solo recordings." ^ Hide Bio for Tatsuya Yoshida • Show Bio for Kentaro Nakao "Kentaro Nakao (中尾憲太郎) born June 17, 1974, is a Japanese bassist known for the bands Crypt City, Kead Dennedys, Kenichi Asai & The Interchange Kills, Number Girl, Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, Sickhaus, Sloth Love Chunks, Spiral Chord, younGSounds." ^ Hide Bio for Kentaro Nakao
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Track Listing:
1. The Die Is Cast 6:24
2. Stoop To Conquer 5:23
3. More Haste, Less Speed 11:33
4. History Repeats Itself 8:15
5. Seeing Is Believing 13:29
6. Ignorance Is Bliss 11:18
7. Make Haste Slowly 12:37
8. Dead Men Tell No Lies 6:27
9. Take Your Chance 0:44
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