Melt Banana at Bi Nuu Berlin / Wednesday, 07.12.2016

Japanese hardcore noise-punk terrorists and John Peel favourites Melt Banana hit the stage at Bi Nuu this December. This band produce a truly unique and invigorating sound.

MELT-BANANA is a band based in Tokyo Japan, by YAKO (vo.) and AGATA (g.). So far, they released 7 studio recording albums, 2 live albums, and 2 single compilation albums. They have been performing together for about 20 years, and their range of work is pretty wide. They seem to be in so called underground scene in japan such as noise music scene or hard-core scene, and at the same time, they also played shows as support act for the Wire, Mr.Bungle, Fantomas, Tool, MGMT etc. , or, they took part in a festival curated by Mr.Lou Reed at Opera House in Sydney, or they have friendship with various artists like Mike Patton, Shellac, Wire, Mogwai, Karl Hyde of Underworld etc.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RgnoBN007Vc

Once they had been performing shows as 4 piece band, now they are performing as 2 piece band using PC, and they are keeping energetic activities not only in Japan but also abroad. Last year, they released a single compilation album “Return of 13 Hedgehogs” which contains their 13 singles from 2000 to 2009, and they toured in USA for 5 months as they released it. During the tour, they took part in Eaux Claires Fes (USA) curated by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, and Maryland Death Fest (USA). In Japan, they wrote a song for a Japanese animation called “Ninja Slayer”. It seems that they are still expanding their range.

So that, they also have many fans in musicians. Some people say that MELT-BANANA is a musician for musicians, but I don’ t think so. It is the fact that many of well-known musicians like MELT-BANANA, such as Lou Reed, Underworld, John Zorn, the TOOL, Mike Patton, the Melvins, the Wire, etc… But without such a distinction, anyone can enjoy MELT-BANANA if they have a passion to see the possibility of mus…