Tenniscoats

Tenniscoats certainly are a Japan indie pop duo made up of Saya (business lead vocals) and Takashi Ueno (electric guitar, saxophone). By using an ever-shifting lineup of support musicians (famous brands that have included LSD-March, Eddie Marcon, Secai, Popo, Saibou Bungaku, Tim Barnes, and Tetsuya Umeda), the Uneos make the type of mild, willowy, cerebral music that think of a bunch of Japanese indie pop works, especially Four Bonjour’s Celebrations and Lullatone, in addition to performers like Bobby Baby and Rose Melberg. Tenniscoats released their 1st EP, The Theme of Tenniscoats, via the Majikick label in 2000. This is adopted two years later on by another mini-album, The Finishing Theme, that was released on Noble/MIDI Innovative. Tenniscoats’ first genuine full-length album, WE HAVE BEEN Everyone, found its way to 2004. Several even more releases adopted within the next four years, including Totemo Aimasho (2007) and Tenniscoats & Secai (2008). Furthermore to their personal recordings, Tenniscoats had been involved with different collaborations and part projects at the moment, including Tan-Tan Therapy with Swedish ambient rockers Tape in 2008 and OneOne, a cooperation between Saya and Deerhoof’s Satomi. Tenniscoats released another full-length, Temporacha, via the Space40 label in ’09 2009. Two Sunsets, an recording made in cooperation using the seminal Scottish indie pop group the Pastels, premiered on Domino that fall. Tokinouta made an appearance in 2011, and the next yr the duo reconvened with Tape for help on creation of the calm chamber pop collection Papa’s Hearing. Later on in 2012, the group released All Aboard!, an LP they documented between 2005 and 2009 that presented Ikuro Takahashi, a drummer known greatest for his use Japanese noise rock and roll bands Large Rise and Fushitsusha. They collaborated with Pastacas (musician Ramo Teder) for the lo-fi folk of Yaki-Läki in 2013, along with Jad Good and Norman Blake for 2014’s JUST HOW MANY Glasgow. Their very own Music Exists and Music Exists, Vol. 2 both adopted in 2016 for the Alien Transistor label.