Nohshintoh

Date: 2008-01-05 

Location: Nagoya, Japan

Venue: KD Japon

Event: 2008 First Live

Title: Tairyoku Shobu
/tah-ee-rloh-koo show-boo/ (Endurance Test)

Source: Studio Projects C4 pair (ORTF: cardoid@110*-17cm) -> 
Marantz PMD-660 -> Lexar 4.0g 60x compact flash > WAV16/44.1(0)

Lineage: WAV(0) (USB -> HD) -> WAV(1) -> Audacity 3.1.2 
(track splits) -> WAV(2) -> flac 1.1.1 -V --sector-align --best -> 
FLAC16(0)

Track List:
      (titles starting with capital letters are songs)
  trk: title /pronunciation/ (translation) [time]

01: intro [1:42.20]
02: Inochi /ee-no-chee/ (Life Force) [11:31.08]
03: Jump [11:14.67]
04: kyou kara yasumi [0:49.26]
/kyo-oo-kah-rlah yah-soo-mee/ (Holiday Starts Today) 
05: Tora-san /Toh-rlah sahn/ (Mr. Tora) [7:45.72]
06: kokoro de naguru [0:25.70]
/koh-koh-rloh deh nah-goo-rloo/ (punch with the heart)
07: Break Time [8:41.23]
08: Horo Yori /ho-rlo yo-rlee/ (Over The Top) [5:05.14]
09: omededou /oh-meh-deh-toh-oo/ (Congratulations) [0:55.65]
10: Power Yowai /yo-wah-ee/ (I'm Weak) [1:04.31]
11: one more song [0:31.64]
12: Uuchii /oo-oo-chee-ee/ [3:04.08]

Total Time: [52:52.18]

Recording Note:


This was recorded about 4 or 5 meters from the band and about
2 and a half to 3 meters off the floor. 
The microphones were suspended from the balcony railing 
with light nylon rope. 

Venue Note:

There is a large L-shaped balcony area over the 
entrance and kitchen. The PA is suspended from the rafters and 
pointed at an angle from the sides toward the floor. There are 
also 2 stand mounted speakers that serve as both monitor and PA. 
These are placed asymetrically around the performance area. 
Of late I'm beginning to think that these 'monitors' have become 
the main house speakers. 

The whole place has been put together in the space under the 
JR Nagoya Chuo commuter train line overhead railway. 
During quieter moments the sound of the trains passing overhead 
is clearly audible. 


Event Note:

For this event, the first show of the year for the venue as well as 
the performers, a stipulation against using the drum kit was made. 
It was also intended to be an all acoustic event. The New Year is 
generally a quiet reflective time in Japan. KD Japon is also a 
not-very-sound-proofed venue which has a history of problems with 
people from the neighborhood complaining about noise.

Nohshintoh did their best to conform to the acoustic concept 
by also not using the house PA. They brought their own giant 
loudspeaker horn and managed to hook it up to a small mixer, 
running all of the sound through this one, roughly, 90cm horn. 

Also in accordance with the event concept, Take, the band's drummer 
elected to beat-box vocal percussion for the entire show. Sakai-san
played an electric-acoustic bass, which looked like it was scaled 
for a child. Yagi used his well-guarded Gibson hollow-body guitar, 
the closest thing to acoustic he has apparently, and sat for the 
entire performance.

All of these unusual sounds and arrangements rather entranced the 
group's vocalist, Haru, who was enjoying the fresh sounds so much 
he nearly forgot to sing some of the songs, much to the chagrin of 
his younger brother who didn't appreciate the extended versions of 
each number while he was trying to recreate the entire drum kit 
with only his voice.

For one improvised piece O.G.S.T loaned Take their toy rhythm 
machine to which Take applied his vocal mic for amplification. 
The crowd joins in with hand clapping and Texas Pink / 6 Eyes 
drummer can be heard on the mic as well.

This is definitely a unique performance.
The group used this set-up for only one other show that I am aware 
of. The Enban Jambouree 8 Taiko Matsuri (drum festival), ironically 
enough. I've seen photos of the Tokyo show and even a torrent of 
some of the other performances, but not of Nohshintoh...


This was recorded with permission from the band and the venue,




Artist Note:


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

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

 Band Members:

Haru-chan: vocals/synthesizer (pronounced /ha-rloo/) - fire
Sakai-san: bass/chorus vo. (pronounced /sa-ka-ee/) - earth
Take: beat-box/vocals/pianica (pronounced /tah-kay/) - water
Yagi-chan: guitar/chorus vo. (pronounced /yah-gee/) -earth
Eiichi: dub/vocals/rhythm box (pronounced /ay-eechee/) - earth


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 
defacto band manager.




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