Harpy for RIO/Avant-Prog

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   A Japanese quartet from the late 90s and possibly early 2000s, performing what sounds like a modernized version of Slapp Happy's avant-pop sound. Information on them (at least in English) seems to be very hard to acquire. RateYourMusic lists them as having six studio albums on their name (two of which don't have a track listing or even a cover) while Discogs only lists three (only two of which were on a label [from France, for some reason]) along with one blurry photo. The individual songs are usually very short and the band crammed about 20 or 30 of them on each album, so you'll have to forgive me for not listing all of them here. The former drummer and lead composer (possibly band leader?) Itoken released an album of live material by the band just last month.

LINE-UP:
- "Kyoko" - vocals
- "Suzuki" / "Zukky" - guitar
- Tetsu Ono - piano
- "Itoken" (Kenji Ito) - drums

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Mirakaze Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Eclectic, JRF/Canterbury, Avant/Zeuhl Joined: December 17 2019 Location: (redacted) Status: Offline Points: 4297	Topic: Harpy for RIO/Avant-Prog Posted: August 05 2020 at 15:38
	A Japanese quartet from the late 90s and possibly early 2000s, performing what sounds like a modernized version of Slapp Happy's avant-pop sound. Information on them (at least in English) seems to be very hard to acquire. RateYourMusic lists them as having six studio albums on their name (two of which don't have a track listing or even a cover) while Discogs only lists three (only two of which were on a label [from France, for some reason]) along with one blurry photo. The individual songs are usually very short and the band crammed about 20 or 30 of them on each album, so you'll have to forgive me for not listing all of them here. The former drummer and lead composer (possibly band leader?) Itoken released an album of live material by the band just last month. LINE-UP: - "Kyoko" - vocals - "Suzuki" / "Zukky" - guitar - Tetsu Ono - piano - "Itoken" (Kenji Ito) - drums

DamoXt7942 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Joined: October 15 2008 Location: Okayama, Japan Status: Offline Points: 17493	Posted: August 05 2020 at 23:58
	Alert Team and added on eval charts. Surprising the vocalist Kyoko hailed from Okayama (my hometown) and already died ...


octopus-4 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator RIO/Avant & Zeuhl, Neo, Post/Math, PSIKE Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 14993	Posted: August 07 2020 at 13:57
	On bandcamp there's a lot of single tracks from Itoko. It's like he' sthe only one currently actively releasing stuff. I'm on a laptop without external speakers and I haven't listened to any track yet.
	I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution

DamoXt7942 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Joined: October 15 2008 Location: Okayama, Japan Status: Offline Points: 17493	Posted: August 07 2020 at 17:02
	^ Their YouTube video provided by Mira on the top page works well.


DamoXt7942 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Joined: October 15 2008 Location: Okayama, Japan Status: Offline Points: 17493	Posted: August 15 2020 at 20:11
	Added. http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=11455