SYOGO-NARI - Born From The Water

-جø¬-??Syogonari is the Japanese psychedelic and/or acid folk band formed by Ishida Yasuyuki, who sings, plays an acoustic guitar and writes all the songs of the band, and Miki Kaori, who plays a piano, in a summer of 1996.-Ç They started gigging after two musicians, Kito Akira (sax, flute) and Maru-ichi (drums) joined the band. The music is always mystical, nostalgic and mysterious, and their lyrics are often phantasmal and philosophical.-Ç Their acoustic sound seems to draw on traditional Japanese folk music influence to some extent, so that some people might feel the similar mould as Jacks, Yoshio Hayakawa and Kan Mikami. On some occasions their numbers sound like those of Tim Buckley, Tom Rapp (Pearls before Swine), Randy Burns, etc. Syogonari released their 1st CD containing dark, gloomy, noisy guitars of Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple, Musica Transonic) last December.-جø¬-?-جø¬-