| Tokyo’s Tenniscoats centre around the duo of Saya and Taskashi Ueno, a married couple who have been making music since 2000, and also run the highly regarded Japanese label Majikick Records. In that time, Tenniscoats have released three studio recordings, 2001’s Theme Of Tenniscoats, 2002’s The Ending Theme and 2004’s We Are Everyone.
Although each of those records is a fine, fine work, many Tenniscoats fans say that the band’s meditative intensity has never quite been captured in the studio. For this reason Chapter Music is releasing a compilation of their live work, named in Saya’s imaginative English to reflect the words Wander, Wonder, Wondrous and Us. The album presents songs from each Tenniscoats release in distinctive new forms, as well as a number of previously unreleased tracks, and shows the band’s many shifting lineups, including collaborations with members of revered Japanese groups Acid Mothers Temple, Stars and Maher Shalal Hash Baz (a band that Saya and Ueno are often members of).
Tenniscoats’ music is a combination of haunting melody and a kind of innocent darkness, with unashamed fragility set against a restrained power that at times can explode into a psychedelic free-for-all. |
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