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While site surfing I came across a song called, "baibaba bimba", by Tenniscoats [an experimental Japanese group] just uploaded at Fuzz with a melody and lilting quality that will worm its way into your brain and, ultimately, your minds-ear and heart. After a few listens, you'll start to hum, bai...ba-ba, bim...ba, yourself and feel happy. Watch out, it's catchy.
Baibaba bimba is a novel combination of nostalgic Japanese "schooldaze", pop, and jazz with a hynotic beat. The artful mix of a pure, but fragile vocalist, Saya Ueno, with acoustic guitar, sweet trumpet [latin style], and some electronic washboard wizardry will get to you. This song has more of a "mainstream sound" than some other pieces by Tenniscoats that I checked out, but the Japanese/Western fusion effort is definitely a good add to my "Epic/Experimental Sounds" playlist. These songs all give me an uplifting feeling.
The Tenniscoats' website gives you some idea of the group's doings.. They have a substantial Japanese following and are gaining greater international exposure with their online outreach [they clearly get with the program] and their touring overseas. Here is another good summary of the indie experimentation goin' on with Tenniscoats written by Bill Haw at Nippop.
After a quick review of the extant Youtube stuff out on Tenniscoats, I have posted below a truncated video of Tenniscoats' collaboration with the Swedish trio, Tape, on "baibaba bimba" with a bit of experimental fun that you can see. The sound quality sucks, but by watching the tape you get a sense of all the on-stage innovatin' and experimentin' goin' on and how this group might really take us somewhere someday:
[NB: a note to readers of my reviews: the text of my reviews at this site may change from time to time. As I listen for futher nuances in a song or body of work, I keep modifying or adding to my thoughts, making my reviews an organic "moveable feast". Since Fuzz artists are constantly evolving, as are our own perspectives, I think Fuzz reviews should not be frozen in time. It's time to extend the power of real-time, web-based music discovery, by making our reviews, "wiki-reviews."]
Baibaba bimba is a novel combination of nostalgic Japanese "schooldaze", pop, and jazz with a hynotic beat. The artful mix of a pure, but fragile vocalist, Saya Ueno, with acoustic guitar, sweet trumpet [latin style], and some electronic washboard wizardry will get to you. This song has more of a "mainstream sound" than some other pieces by Tenniscoats that I checked out, but the Japanese/Western fusion effort is definitely a good add to my "Epic/Experimental Sounds" playlist. These songs all give me an uplifting feeling.
The Tenniscoats' website gives you some idea of the group's doings.. They have a substantial Japanese following and are gaining greater international exposure with their online outreach [they clearly get with the program] and their touring overseas. Here is another good summary of the indie experimentation goin' on with Tenniscoats written by Bill Haw at Nippop.
After a quick review of the extant Youtube stuff out on Tenniscoats, I have posted below a truncated video of Tenniscoats' collaboration with the Swedish trio, Tape, on "baibaba bimba" with a bit of experimental fun that you can see. The sound quality sucks, but by watching the tape you get a sense of all the on-stage innovatin' and experimentin' goin' on and how this group might really take us somewhere someday:
[NB: a note to readers of my reviews: the text of my reviews at this site may change from time to time. As I listen for futher nuances in a song or body of work, I keep modifying or adding to my thoughts, making my reviews an organic "moveable feast". Since Fuzz artists are constantly evolving, as are our own perspectives, I think Fuzz reviews should not be frozen in time. It's time to extend the power of real-time, web-based music discovery, by making our reviews, "wiki-reviews."]
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