Katsurei（割礼）
Active Years
- 1983 – current
Musical style
- We can call it “Japanese Pink Floyd”.
- It used to be like post punk band with the noisy guitar sound but the songs have become slower and more psychedelic for later years.
- Shishido Koji(Gt/vo) often uses the feedback guitar noise.
Influenced by/for
- Televison, the NY punk band
- Dusky feeling like Jacks, Les Rallizes Dénudés, and the psychedelic atmosphere like Haino Keiji
- The atmosphre in the mangas of Mizuki Shigeru and Tsuge Yoshiharu
- The band started earlier than the shogaze emerging but its musical style has already drawn that kind of color.
Short topics about members, songs, etc…
- The band’s name “Katsurei” means circumcision in Japanese.
Album(s) to must listen to
- 星を見る(Hoshi-wo Miru)/Watching the Stars(2010)
- Paradise K(1987)
- 空中のチョコレート工場(Ku-chu-no Chocolate Kojo)/Chocolate Factory in the Sky(1989)
Song(s) to must listen to
- リボンの騎士(Ribbon-no Kishi)/Ribbon Knight
- マリブ/Malibu