Me and Swiss Adam (of Bagging Area fame) have been having a friendly competition to see who can come up with the most Japanese psych bands. At the start of the month he posted a track by The Boredoms; this is my delayed response.
Kuunatic are an all-female trio from Tokyo who describe their sound as "tribal dreamy tale music". The blurb from Glitterbeat, the label which has released both their albums, expands on this, calling it: "a mix of psychedelic garage and prog rock, ritual drumming, chanting female vocals, lush keyboard textures and Japanese folk instruments".
I saw them live in London in 2022. It was quite an experience. Dressed in white robes they hopped about doing all of the above but turned up to 11.
Kuunatic's two albums to date are "Gates Of Kluna" (2021) and "Wheels Of Odom" (2025). You can find both albums and other bits and pieces on their Bandcamp page. Here is a track from each.
"Desert Empress Pt 1" - Kuunatic
"Yellow Serpent" - Kuunatic
George may wish to note that this live video includes prog flute (starting just before the two minute mark).
God that's annoying, can we move on? (not spoken by me at 7.35 this morning)
ReplyDeleteI was worried you were going to come back with something like this. Now I feel like I may have to buy a copy of Julian Cope's Japrocksampler to provide me with material to keep this going.
ReplyDeleteKuunatic are good fun. And an acquired taste too possibly
But clearly one George has yet to acquire
Deleteon this hearing they will not be troubling the Top Three
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