OVERGROUND ACOUSTIC UNDERGROUND is an acoustic band formed by 6 members, TOSHI-LOW(Vo, in OAU as Vo&G), MAKOTO(B), RONZI(Dr), and KOHKI(G) (members of “BRAHMAN”, a leading hard core band of Japan) and by KAKUEI a percussionist who plays in various projects and MARTIN(Vo&Vio&G) a Scottish American violinist.
The sound of the acoustic guitar, wood base, drums, percussions, violin and the two vocalists skilfully weave in Western style.
They attract the audience with their vivid dynamism and fine live performance at Japan’s greatest rock festivals such as “FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL”, “ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL”, “RISING SUN ROCK FESTIVAL” and “ASAGIRI JAM”.
MARTIN who takes the lead vocal, plays the guitar, violin, and mandolin is a Scottish American from Florida. As he was brought up in a family with his parents both being musicians, he started to play the violin when he was three years old. He won the Grand Prix at a violin competition in Florida three years in a row when he was a junior high-school student. But then he was very much into playing the guitar in his junior-high and high school years, and that brought him to Japan when he was 19 years old. During the days as a guitarist, he first met a studio percussionist KAKUEI (plays the conga, bongos, steel drums, timbales, paticas, and so on). Immediately they became close friends as they found out that they had a mutual friend. They had enjoyed jam sessions at home since then. In 2004, at a gig, MARTIN met TOSHI-LOW who’d become another vocalist and the guitarist of OVERGROUND ACOUSTIC UNDERGROUND later.
OVERGROUND ACOUSTIC UNDERGROUND was formed from their relationship. MARTIN called KAKUEI to join, and TOSHI-LOW called MAKOTO (bass), RONZI (drums), and KOHKI (guitar) who were the remaining members of his own band BRAHMAN. The band was formed in June 2005, after a year when MARTIN and TOSHI-LOW first met.
One day TOSHI-LOW received an offer to put a track into an omnibus album celebrating the tenth anniversary of 7STARS, a graphic designers’ office in Tokyo; the album entitled “The Basement Tracks -10YEARS SOUNDTRACK OF 7STARS” (2005). The work on it was their first studio recording, and the band performed their first show in September, 2005. They released their first album “OVERGROUND ACOUSTIC UNDERGROUND” on July 12, 2006. After that album they participated in big summer rock festivals in Japan such as FUJIROCK FESTIVAL and ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL and in September they went on their first tour in Japan. They vigorously performed on several festivals after then.
Formed in 2012. The group now consists of song and lyrics writer Daisuke Goto, Naoyuki Yosa, Masayoshi Kamimori, Akinari Hotta, and a new vocalist miu, who joined in September 2018. The feature is the dreaming sound created by the mixture of various acoustic instruments and electronic sounds, and also by the mixture of Icelandic music, which is the root of the band, and Japanese music. Also, the members do not have their own decided parts. Their style is to play and sing with their free imagination. They first performed in “Waon Festival” in 2012, released their 1st ep “hand in hand” in 2013. After numbers of self-organized concerts and song making, the 1st album 余暇と祝祭 was released, and one-man live concert was held to celebrate its release. In the same year, they attended GO OUT JAMBOREE fes, and then released 2nd ep “Dreaming” in Tower Records Shibuya in 2017. They also released a limited-time single “and love” in Christmas in 2017. Their live performances and songs are created by adding strings and horn support members. The band was named after an author of picture books, Chris Van Allsburg, and an artist, Joseph Cornell.
2019.09.11(水) artbook album "and love"
01 Folks
02 and love
03 After Silence
04 Tomorrow is today's dream
05 Goodnight Elio（guest vocal 田渕ひさ子）
Hiromasa Yamakawa (Yamakawa Hiromasa, May 11, 1965-) is a Japanese musician and music instructor. Former THE BOOM bassist.
In 1986, he formed THE BOOM with Kazufumi Miyazawa, Takashi Kobayashi and Takao Tochigi. On May 21, 1989, you made a major debut as a TV girl. Since then, the band has released 35 singles and 14 original albums.
In February 2014, he developed "fulminant type 1 diabetes". On December 17, the same year, Nippon Budokan's performance was released and THE BOOM was dissolved.
On January 1, 2015, all members formed the band “1-GATA” with type 1 diabetes, and debuted as a leader and base.
SAIRU is an instrumental band from Tokyo, Japa. They formed in 2006, the group consists of five members where each individual was influenced by different genres of music.
Reggae, Jazz, Hip Hop, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Tribal music. Each and every member influenced by different style got together to form a “Jack-of-All-Genres” band.
Even though the band is strictly instrumental, the agitation and the ‘crowd stirring’ during live shows are distinctive from other groups.
Music festivals such as Harukaze, Ringo Festival, Awanone, Aozora Camp, Corona Music Festival and basketball events such as, Red Bull King of the Rock and Tag. They are now performing outdoors, clubs, live houses, and various events. Afterglow, released as a 12” in 2010 and first full album, Encounter, released in 2012. And in May 2015, Sairu released its second album, Now or Never.
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