Nisennenmondai

A Tokyo-based all-female instrumental trio building equally uncooked and danceable music, Nisennenmondai formed in the past due ’90s and took their name from japan translation from the then-current term “Con2K insect.” Guitarist Masako Takada, bassist Yuri Zaikawa, and drummer Sayaka Himeno fulfilled at a golf club near their college or university and shaped the band immediately after, acquiring as much motivation through the cool children at school because they do from experimentalists such as this Temperature, Pop Group, Sonic Youngsters, DNA, and Neu! Their debut EP, Sorede Souzousuru Neji, premiered in 2004, with another EP, Tori, arriving the next yr. The band’s 1st album, Rokuon, made an appearance in 2006, nonetheless it wasn’t until 2008 that Nisennenmondai’s function was distributed beyond Japan. Neji/Tori, which mixed the band’s 1st EPs, premiered by Heartworm Press/Free of charge News Tasks on vinyl fabric in the U.S. and by Smalltown Supersound on Compact disc. That springtime, the band’s second full-length, the sleeker, even more groove-oriented Destination Tokyo, premiered in Japan; it had been released somewhere else in summer season 2009. By that point, Nisennenmondai got released Fan, an individual 35-minute track growing on Destination Tokyo’s polyrhythmic strategy, within their homeland. The next year, a break up release using the volatile Osaka group Oshiri Pencil Penz came; in 2011, Nisennenmondai came back with a break up solitary with Waiters and a live recording. A self-titled EP made an appearance on Zelone Information in 2013 aswell as the full-length N, which had taken the trio’s generating repetition to brand-new heights. N premiered in Europe as well as the U.S. in 2014. The next year saw the discharge of N’ (pronounced “N-dash”), which highlighted reworkings of N’s monitors and a couple of remixes by Shackleton. The band’s level of the Live at Clouds Hill series, which features performers recording 64-minute pieces (the distance of two analog tapes) at manufacturer Johann Scheerer’s Hamburg studio room, also made an appearance in 2015. That calendar year, the trio documented and performed with dub maestro Adrian Sherwood; the outcomes had been the stark yet atmospheric #N/A, which originally made an appearance in a restricted model via Tokyo Beat before its wider discharge in Apr 2016.