Natisuta Hetekata is a Japanese band living in Finland and even better, they sound like it. Imagine a hybrid of Avarus/Maniacs Dream and Acid Mothers Temple .Truly amazing lyserging sounds ,like Acid Mother Temple jamming with Boris !get it here
Natisuta Hetekata is a Japanese band living in Finland and even better, they sound like it. Imagine a hybrid of Avarus/Maniacs Dream and Acid Mothers Temple .Truly amazing lyserging sounds ,like Acid Mother Temple jamming with Boris !
Their 10" is even better.
ReplyDeleteAnd the truth is these guys weren't Japanese. The names on the album are Japanese ski-jumpers and the band consisted of members of Radiopuhelimet, Jolly jumpers etc. Sorry to burst the bubble...and indeed, the 10" is really good stuff too.
ReplyDeleteQuite the recommendation. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteSomething I've been looking for..."Wilt" by Blue Daisies. Given all the Steaming Coils you've got posted, I wonder whether you've got it. My copy is trashed and I haven't been able to find a replacement for love or money.
The headline is misleading. At least mention that this record was on the legendary Majora imprint based out of Seattle, which is located in neither Japan or Finland.
ReplyDeleteI always heard this was actually Tom Verlaine, Rick Bishop, and Bubba Dupree sitting in with Bardo Pond. Five-guitar lineup!
ReplyDeletebubba dupree!!! haha... awes. thanks for the upload, regardless....
ReplyDeleteyea there's no japan here -- oulu finland all the way. at least ari eldon, kari heikonen, jyrki raatikainen, jarno mällinen and ray katz involved -- all bad vugum figures
ReplyDeleteMight as well post the whole story here, in case y'all didn't see it on Discogs already:
ReplyDelete"Just a sort of a hoax band but without even the labels being aware of it, Natisuta Hetekata were advertised as three Japanese exchange students living in Oulu, Finland, joined by a couple of local musicians. In reality the whole concept was concocted by the Bad Vugum label and members of their flagship band Radiopuhelimet, who, by the mid-90s, were slightly irked by the fact that some of their former champions in the international underground press seemed to have forsaken the Finnish brand of inventive Noise Rock and replaced it with improvised Free Noise which had become all the rage in some circles.
The final straw, so to speak, was provided in an editorial of a New Zealand noise zine, in which it was declared that the first proof of the superiority of Free Noise is that anybody could just rock out and even fake it, whereas in Free Noise it was impossible to fake anything without being caught a mile off. Bad Vugum and Radiopuhelimet took it as a dare almost, and devised a mischievous plan for shits and giggles.
First, it was decided that all the while trying to steal some of the thunder of Japanese noise, the band name should be a send-off that's clear to Finnish-speakers only - hence the age-old children's linguistic joke of "natisuta hetekata", which tries to sound vaguely Japanese but actually means "squeak the cot" in Finnish, i.e. a colloquialism for "to fuck." Also, the stage names of the three core members were taken from Japan's Olympic gold-winning ski-jumping team in the Sapporo Games of 1972 (but without their biggest star Yukio Kasaya, which might have been too well-known for comfort).
To make sure that a recording session would not show any trace of competence or proficiency, it was decided that all contributors should be as drunk as possible. This is also how the two extra players, Petri Hannus of Jolly Jumpers and the Oulu-resident icelander Ari Eldon were recruited from local bars on the way to the rehearsal space, where a used c-cassette was taped over with an indecent little mono recorder.
Next, a round of just two demo tapes were sent out to opposite corners of the world - and while Seattle's Majora were the first to offer a deal, also a label from New Zealand wrote of their approval. Majora didn't even get to learn of the basic concept before the relationship was severed short, as the label refused to use the sleeve art sent by the band.
Even in Finland, the burgeoning Free Noise scene took some notice when a label run by a teenage Jan Anderzen offered to put out a second record.
A final third session was recorded in 1998, but the one original tape went missing for 20+ years.
Full first line-up:
"Takashi Fujisawa" (Jyrki Raatikainen)
"Seiji Aochi" (Jarno Mällinen)
"Akitsugo Konno" (Antti Annunen)
Petri Hannus of Jolly Jumpers
Ari Eldon of Bless/Dr.Gunni