Nohshintoh


Date: 2008-08-03


Location: Utsumi, Aichi Prefecture Japan


Venue: Rudy's Studio


Event: Bongo Matsuri   (Bongo Festival)


Title: Nohshintoh's Summer Vacation


Source: AUD
Studio Projects C4 pair (Omni @ ~90cm)> 
Marantz PMD660 > Lexar 4.0g 60x Compact Flash > WAV16/44.1(0)


Lineage:  WAV(0) > (USB > HD) > WAV(1) >
Audacity 1.3.2-beta (Unicode)[+10.1db amp > track split] > 
WAV(2) > shntool fix -o wav -noskip > WAV(3) >
flac 1.1.4 -V --best > flac16(0)


Set List:
trk: title [time]
     /pronunciation/ (translation) 

Disc 1

01: San Cho Me No Hito [5:38.62] >
    /sahn choh may no hee-toh/ (3rd Block People)
02: Jump [8:16.39]
03: [0:17.72]
04: Horo Yori [4:25.74]
    /ho-rlo yo-rlee/ (Over The Top)
05: [0:12.28]
06: Inochi [8:14.72] 
    /ee-noh-chee/ (Life Force)
07: Uuchii false start [0:20.30]
08: Uuchii [2:13.65]
    /oo-oochee-ee/ (7, 8)
09: "sorry, we're on summer vacation" [0:44.74]
10: Death To Roy [5:50.24]


Total time: [36:16.15]


Artist Note:

http://busaichedelic.org/nohshintoh
http://myspace.com/nohshintoh


Band Members:

Haru:  vocals/synthesizer 
	   (pronounced /ha-rloo/) - fire
	   
Sakai: bass/chorus vo. 
	   (pronounced /sa-ka-ee/) - earth
	   
Take:  drums/vocals/pianica 
	   (pronounced /tah-kay/) - water

Yagi:  guitar/chorus vo. 
	   (pronounced /yah-gee/) -earth
	   
Eiichi:	   dub/vocals/rhythm box 
	   (pronounced /ay-eechee/) - earth
	   



They are like a baby, both cute and grotesque at the same time



This group have been together for somewhere around 20 years,
starting out as a free-form new wave goth punk/krautrock unit 
with the Tsuchiya brothers (Haru and Take) and Sakai-san. 
Yagi joined the group later and his cutting Junior Marvin 
inspired guitar playing and Haru-chan's discovery of
Lee 'Scratch' Perry transformed them into a non-rasta dub band
A real down-home Japanese spirit molds this wide range of music 
into an original sound I call 'Japanese Spiritual New Wave Dub'. 
Perhaps you can imagine Nina Hagen produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry 
with The Slits' Japanese alter-ego as the backing group. 
Eichi, better known by his solo project, "Ichi" is the newest 
member and de facto band manager.




Recording Note:

Using a semi-home-made ~90cm omni bar for the first time
at a concert. It's a bit low, but still above the heads of
most everyone at the show... barely. 

As usual, Sakai-san's bass overpowers the recording a little. 
The drum machine during 'Jump' also gets morphed into 
a more industrial sound than usual, but everything around is clear.
 This, despite the metres running at -20db the whole time.
No pads or filters were used. 10.1db of amplification was added 
with Audacity in post. No clipping occurred.


Event Note:

Bongo Matsuri

http://www.thebongomen.com/

Nohshintoh were supposed to be on a brief hiatus, 
purportedly to work on new material, but
the organisers of the event assumed they'd be playing
and put Nohshintoh's name on the posters.
Suddenly, with about a week's notice, they had a gig.
Mostly they were there to celebrate their friends' wedding
and go to the beach. Having seen them a lot, I'd say
they were a little off this day, but it was a fun show.
The circumstances were certainly working against them.

Most of the crowd had been camping out at the venue since 
the day before, at least. 
I arrived in the afternoon of the second day 
and felt everyone was pretty burnt out. I know I'd be. :-)
Two days of record heat and the fact that all of the vendors
were sold out of beer gives a pretty good idea of the situation.
:-)
Everyone was very subdued or sleeping.

It was a kind of Reggae, Punk, and Japonism event.
Lots of organic food vendors, but no recycling stations.

Great location.


Venue Note:

An outdoor stage with a huge dub sound system

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn2/rockthing/Nohshintoh/nst2008-08-03a530/nst2008-08-03a530-resize/IMG_3547-640x480313kb.jpg

set up to 'house' left. 

Again, great location, withing sight of the ocean.

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn2/rockthing/Nohshintoh/nst2008-08-03a530/nst2008-08-03a530-resize/IMG_3559-640x480309kb.jpg

The PA was run from a small desk at stage left.
The engineer was pretty busy going between the crowd
and the console.



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