With two guitarists split between the left and right sides of the head--Kazuhide Yamaji and Mitsuru Tabata, also on vocals--in a trio with Ruins drummer and Magaibutsu label-leader Tatsuya Yoshida, for a an energetic album of mostly instrumental post-prog "no-wave" improvisations, nine wild tracks captured live from four 2024 concerts in Japan.
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Kazuhide Yamaji-guitar right side
Mitsuru Tabata-guitar left side, vocals
Tatsuya Yoshida-drums, vocals
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Label: Magaibutsu Limited
Catalog ID: MGC-72
Squidco Product Code: 35214
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: Japan
Packaging: Fold out color poster in plastic sleeve
Recorded live at osaka Mujica Japonica on March 7th, 2024 (1,2,4,7); hofu Indo-Yo, Japan, on March 10th, 2024 (3,8); fukuoka Utero, Japan, on March 11th, 2024 (5); nagoya Tokuzo, japan, on March 5th, 2024 (7,9).
"The instant-composing no-wave trio Missing Heads, whose improvisational guitar ensemble of Yamaji Kazuhide and Tabata Mitsuru is intertwined with Yoshida Tatsuya's progressive drumming, has already released their third album, Astral Traveler. The band has changed the way they perform live, and the ensemble has entered a new dimension, recording a 78-minute album that is just about the limit of the CD recording time!"-Magaibutsu Limited"-Magaibutsu Limited
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Kazuhide Yamaji "Kazuhide Yamaji (real name: Kazuhide Yamaji, ヤマジカズヒデ, born March 25, 1966 ) is a Japanese musician, guitarist, and singer. Overview Started activities as DIP THE FLAG in 1987. Formed dip in 1991 and has been active as a guitarist and vocalist. Also released three solo albums in the early 1990s. A work that uses a lot of acoustic guitar in contrast to the psychedelic electric guitar guitar sound, while having an edge with dip. He formed the band I 'M FLASH! BAND with Yusuke Chiba, Tatsuya Nakamura, and KenKen and was in charge of the song for the movie "I'M FLASH!" released on September 1, 2012. Participated in YAPOOS as a guitarist from 2019." ^ Hide Bio for Kazuhide Yamaji • Show Bio for Mitsuru Tabata Mitsuru Tabata (田畑満 (Tabata Mitsuru), also Mitsuko Tabata is a Japanese underground rock guitarist, bassist, vocalist and composer. He Began his music career in the early 80s with Noizunzurie. He is a founding member of The Boredoms in 1986. He is in groups 20 Guilders, Acid Mothers Temple & Space Paranoid, Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO, Alien's Social Dance Party, Amazon Saliva, Boredoms, Green Flames, Gugan, Kawabatabata, L & Friends, Leningrad Blues Machine, Mammal Machine, Monster DVD, Noizunzuri, Plugged Ear, Sanagi, Zeni Geva. ^ Hide Bio for Mitsuru Tabata • Show Bio for Tatsuya Yoshida "Tatsuya Yoshida, born in Kitakami, Iwate is a Japanese musician; drummer and composer who is the only consistent member of the renowned progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as Koenji Hyakkei. He is also a member of the progressive rock trios Korekyojinn and Daimonji. Outside his own groups, Yoshida is renowned for his tenure as drummer in the indie progressive group YBO2, a band also featuring guitarist KK Null, whom he also joins in the current line up of Zeni Geva and he has played drums in a late edition of Samla Mammas Manna. He has been cited as "[the] indisputable master drummer of the Japanese underground". Along with his participation in bands, he has also released several solo recordings." ^ Hide Bio for Tatsuya Yoshida
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Track Listing:
1. Space Sickness 5:43
2. Forbidden Planet 4:30
3. Missing Rings Of Saturn 6:26
4. Manas 8:03
5. Eetheric Body 7:05
6. Lost In Space 11:14
7. Ganymede Impact 12:38
8. Cosmic Inflation 8:14
9. Run Into My Head 13:47
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