JAGATARA(じゃがたら)
Active Years
- 1979 – 1990
Musical style
- Based on New Wave mixed with Afrobeat, and small touch of Dub.
- It includes the strong passion of punk rock as it shows on the stage performance.
- Still quite underground even in Japan since its debut but their skills are really high enough as pro-musicians.
Influenced by/for
- Afrobeat, New Wave and punk as mentioned above.
- P-Funk
Short Topics about members, songs, etc…
- Edo Akemi, the singer drown when he was taking a bath and the incident caused the band’s end.
- Soon after the band united, Edo used to do hardcore performances like being naked and evacuateing around, repeating vomiting and putting it in his mouth again and agian, cutting his body with the razor, biting off Japanese striped snake or chinken, but he stopped it against the listners who regarded it just as performance and decided to express only with playing music.
Album(s) to must listen to
Song(s) to must listen to
- でも・デモ・Demo(Demo-Demo-Demo)/But, But, But
- タンゴ/Tango
- クニナマシェ(Kuni-Na-Mache)
- 裸の王様(Hadaka-no-Osama)/The Emperor’s New Clothes
- 都市生活者の夜(Toshi-Seikatsu-sha-no-Yoru)/The Night of City Dweller