Browse by Artist: MIMINOKOTO

Artist:	MIMINOKOTO
Title:	Live
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 048CD

One of the newer Tokyo psych bands to emerge. Comparable to White Heaven, Shizuka and many PSF bands. "Rising from the ashes of Tokyo Velvets obsessives and Keiji Haino collaborators Broomdusters, Miminokoto are a more immediately auraless proposition. Their dynamic blues constructions are held together by taut, clean guitar lines coiling and snapping around a rhythm section that's liable to alter course in mid-air. The hopping patterns beaten out by Ex-White Heaven bassist and drummer Koji Shimura anchor Kawaguchi's machine gun guitar, which stutters in a polyglot tongue drawing equally from Rory Gallagher, Jerry Garcia and Lou Reed. But Kawaguchi's remarkable vocal most defines Minokoto's sound, his distressed moan giving every track the urgency of deathbed blues." -- The Wire.

Artist:	MIMINOKOTO
Title:	Orange Garage
Label:	LAST VISIBLE DOG RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	LVD 093CD

"At this late date, anyone who hasn't yet heard of Miminokoto simply hasn't been paying attention to (or has no interest in) the Japanese psychedelic underground. In all respects a super-group (with ties to LSD-March, White Heaven, Broom Dusters, Aihiyo, Chie Mukai, High Rise, etc.), Miminokoto has quickly earned a name for itself with its restrained, Velvets-influenced sound (as opposed to the all-in-the-red, fuzzed-out approach so common to so many other Japanese psychedelic groups). With most of their releases available only from Japan (at high import prices), Last Visible Dog once again offers a domestic-priced alternative in the form of Orange Garage, a top-notch live release that rivals Miminokoto's studio efforts. Featuring three songs unavailable anywhere else (one over 16 minutes), and revamped 'heavier' versions of some of the band's best numbers, Orange Garage is perhaps Miminokoto's most immediate and well-balanced release to date."

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