Yokohama Zen Rock
Yokohama Zen Rock
A French-Japanese trio, based in Lyon, with a singer ( Yoko Higashi) been used to the experiments (Her Hama Yoko project is well known readers of the magazine Wire for example), the bass player and the man of Spaggs machines (Le Peuple del herbes member) and the guitarist Takeshi Yoshimura (Azian Zs member). Behind a beautiful cover (Illustration of the draftsman / novelist nippophile Roman Slocombe), a big disc of colorful, electric and mechanical pop at the same moment, loan at the same moment of a sometimes disconcerting naivety for the western ear (texts are in Japanese, the poetry is dark even tortured, the song oscillates between sweetness and pain) and of highly-rated one evident extreme reactionary (simple and effective melodies, industrial ritournelles post but sweetened.