Totsuzen Danball Japan

"Absolutely minimal change of rock music by TOTSUZEN DANBALL ( TOTSUDAN familiarly I call them).

Suddenly, yes suddenly fascinated by loose and lazy voices and a percussive guitar. The lyrics I cannot understand in detail...really Eiichi's voice itself can be thought as a 'colourless' instrument. What an extremely minimal psychedelia - the first track Sentaku To Hairetsu (The choise and the arrangement of the symbols) can be fit for this expression. Sticky and persistent repetitions by simple guitar and voice sounds, and some vacant intervals suddenly popping up, both are remarkably important for this song. And, though overestimated, this track might determine where TOTSUDAN should go.

Another side of their approach we can definitely find is the next track, a cover of The Girl From Ipanema . First please listen, and we'll feel it very impressive that such a typical Latino bossa nova can transform itself into an unpolished and uncategorized psychedelic bubblegum-rock. Unavoidable for us to say what a slow-down or an asthenic the middle part is hahaha. That's it, should they reject themselves categorized in spite of themselves? Or simply did they do what they wanted to do in this work? ...God (and the late Eiichi) only know.

The third track Mokkoh (Woodwork) and the eighth Yukkuri Tatsu Yukkuri Suwaru (Slowly stand up, slowly sit down) are psychedelic folk songs with a twittering & rumbling acoustic guitar solo on eccentrically twisted melodies. Their folk songs are not only folkish but awfully warped to trance - they might say so, always I suggest with these songs. Furthermore, Ya-Su-Mi (Ho-li-day) is like a broken rhythm machine - completely novel enumeration of voices and sounds (I cannot call it 'a song'). The last song is crooked rock and danball Naritatsukana? (Can I?), a slightly powerful but somewhat drive-lacking track. You know, they should reject to finish shooting the album normally.

Six bonus tracks are in - some are their what-is-called mischief with their psycharacteristic sounds, and some are psychedelic songs like others in the album. I cannot help saying about the last bonus track Natsu Wa Kageroh (The summer is shimmering). A very gentle and quiet (unlike the other songs) folk psychedelic song - should it drop out from the album because of its safe and sound atmosphere?

The pioneer of Japanese minimal psych is Naritatsukana? by TOTSUDAN , born 32 years ago. Now on sale."