#kenji sano

[mitjalovse]

Sakamoto could be seen as one of those rare musicians who can move from pop to avant-garde with such an ease, though he rarely settles on any idiom. Moreover, he can surprise you, we said that a lot, though nothing in his opus can describe the shock of something like The End Of Asia, a collaborative album he did with Danceries, which is a collection of medieval tunes. Yes, you've read that correctly. I assume you're not going to be baffled by the fact Mr. Sakamoto doesn't make a fool out of himself on the record. On the contrary, I think he should return to this soundscape again, he fits well within the genre. Of course, Sakamoto's a restless spirit, he didn't take a break until his cancer diagnosis, so I assume he's already looking for another style to mold.

[noisessobbingdistant]

Metal Mania #8 — Page 3

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BONZAI! JAPANESE ON THE ATTACK!!

BOW WOW—at the Marquee in London August 10, 1982

Look out…here it comes…the NWOJHM!!! No kidding now folks, Nip-metal is here! Led by Bow Wow, the first and most popular Japanese Hardrock band, oriental metal is here to stay. Bow Wow put on the best show I’ve ever seen, playing to an incredibly puny audience (old Adam & the Ants fans looking for something new) at the Marquee last month. The impressive band and is only the tip of an iceberg of talent to be heard from the land of the rising sun. Despite the less than enthusiastic audience, Bow Wow were so thrilled to be playing the homeland of thier HM idols that they put more effort into thier set and generated more energy than any British band I’ve yet seen.

Japanese metal seems so alien at first, but actually Bow Wow sounded a bit like Baron Rojo (they were strong in the melodic and heavy department to you deprived folks never to have heard of the Red Baron) especially on the superbly heavy instrumental “Signal Fire” (a big hit on Rampage Radio) and reminiscent of Early Scorpions they did a killer called “Get on our Train”. 

Starting off with thier slightly less memorable new material (less memorable to me because I only have the oldest of thier 10, yes 10, album produced thus far) they slowly drifted to thier older numbers like the bluesy “Tell Me Why” (or was that “Take Me Away”? hell I dunno) which gave main man Kyoji Yamamoto a chance to strangle his guitar, creating some weird noises for the audiences listening pleasure. Kyoji is a great guitarist but his singing is barely adequate as you can't really tell if he’s singing in English or Japanese. 

Actually, the whole band is made up of very good musicians, like rhythm guitarist Mitsuhiro Saite, who threw in some occasional lead and the bassist Kenji Sano jumped around with unbounded energy trying to get the meager handful of headbangers to sing along(!?!). This is a bone tight outfit. They had some weird timings and delays in thier songs which were all played at breakneck velocities when the speeded up and movingly slow

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[fyeah-oldjapanesevrock]

listened to these guys all morning someone help me.

BOW WOW- Foxy Lady from their self titled album Bow Wow

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BOW WOW - Withered Sun 

[fyeah-oldjapanesevrock]

BOW WOW  - Blue Eyed Lady  from the album Charge 

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