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Yura Yura Teikoku’s music fused gentle psychedelia and classic punky rock and roll & roll sound. Shaped in Tokyo in 1989 by vocalist/guitarist Sakamoto Shintaro and bassist Kamekaya Chiyo, with drummer Shibata Ichiro completing a well balanced lineup in 1997, the music group was a fixture on Japan’s psychedelic underground …

The former leader of Japanese psych rockers Yura Yura Teikoku, Shintaro Sakamoto struck from his own this year 2010 almost soon after the group disbanded. Influenced by breezy ’70s pop from all over the world, which range from bossa nova to folk-rock to noises well-known in his homeland, Sakamoto started …