To date, the band has released seven studio albums, two live albums, and two singles collections. They have been performing together for more than 25 years,and their range of work is pretty wide. They seem to be in so called underground scene in japan such as noise music scene or hard-core scene, and at the sametime, they also played shows as support act for the Wire, Mr.Bungle, Fantomas,Tool, MGMT, Napalm Death etc. , or, they took part in a festival curated by the late Lou Reed at Opera House in Sydney, or they have friendship with various artists like Mike Patton, Shellac, Wire, Mogwai, Karl Hyde of Underworld etc ... it is almost kind of unidentified and quite bizarre for me.
They are currently finishing up track down for a new album and hope to release it by the end of the year, MELT-BANANA did not have time to wait and decided to start the "3 + 5" tour. They are scheduled to tour in the U.S. starting in May, as well as in Europe and the U.K. by the end of the year.New album release schedule will be announced shortly, and I am looking forward to it to see the next step of their world.
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"No Wave without the self-conscious pretension, Avant-garde composition compressed into one-minute-or-less bursts, urgency, intricate destruction, pure glorious abandon. Melt-Banana play the same way that Repulsion, Naked City, the Ruins, or the Boredoms all make you want to scream and dance and kill your neighbors. This is not music that we are conditioned to accept. This is you delirious with joy scraping your five senses off the floor." - Matthew Moyer, ink19
MELT-BANANA is a band based in Tokyo JAPAN. Main members are YAKO who is a lead singer and AGATA who is a guitar player of the band. Wth their unique noise-punk style of music, their activity is spread not only in Japan but world-wide.
To date, the band has released seven studio albums, two live albums, and two singles collections. They have been performing together for more than 25 years,and their range of work is pretty wide. They seem to be in so called underground scene in japan such as noise music scene or hard-core scene, and at the sametime, they also played shows as support act for the Wire, Mr.Bungle, Fantomas,Tool, MGMT, Napalm Death etc. , or, they took part in a festival curated by the late Lou Reed at Opera House in Sydney, or they have friendship with various artists like Mike Patton, Shellac, Wire, Mogwai, Karl Hyde of Underworld etc ... it is almost kind of unidentified and quite bizarre for me.
They are currently finishing up track down for a new album and hope to release it by the end of the year, MELT-BANANA did not have time to wait and decided to start the "3 + 5" tour. They are scheduled to tour in the U.S. starting in May, as well as in Europe and the U.K. by the end of the year.New album release schedule will be announced shortly, and I am looking forward to it to see the next step of their world.
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"No Wave without the self-conscious pretension, Avant-garde composition compressed into one-minute-or-less bursts, urgency, intricate destruction, pure glorious abandon. Melt-Banana play the same way that Repulsion, Naked City, the Ruins, or the Boredoms all make you want to scream and dance and kill your neighbors. This is not music that we are conditioned to accept. This is you delirious with joy scraping your five senses off the floor." - Matthew Moyer, ink19
MELT-BANANA is a band based in Tokyo JAPAN. Main members are YAKO who is a lead singer and AGATA who is a guitar player of the band. Wth their unique noise-punk style of music, their activity is spread not only in Japan but world-wide.
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