Tag Archives: Tori Kudo

Maher Shalal Hash Baz is normally a Japanese group led by musician and composer Tori Kudo. Composing and organizing purposefully naïve parts that are performed by an ensemble comprised generally of amateurs, Kudo’s music thrives over the motivated mistake and fuses stray components of psychedelia, pop, folk, jazz, and experimental …

The duo Noise arose in the same circle of underground musicians across the Small performance space in Tokyo that gave delivery to Fushitsusha, High Rise, Gaseneta, Kosokuya, and less well-known Japanese groups exploring the tangents between avant-garde rock and improvisation. Sound was actually somewhat less loud than many of these …