Tama（たま）

It doesn’t make any sence to describe this band’s musical charactaristcs because it’s too unique.
At first, they use some different kind of musical instruments from other bands.Only bass player plays the electric bass guitar but the other members usually plays accoustic ones like mandolin or melodica.
Ishikawa Koji, the drummer and percussionist of the band , usually beats empty bins or some trashes like that.
The accoustic sound stands out in most of their songs than electric sounds, and yet the sound is deep and thick enough without any needlessness.
They could be The Beatles of Japan.

Someone sais it about their chorus arrangement or psycheledic taste.
Compares to The Beatles, we can say that they took the music which was created by African-Americans to the west, TAMA took the western style of bands and created some kind of Japanese sound.

The influence they gave to the other bands is inculculable, but no one tried to follow and immitate their style of music because it was already matured enough.

Koji Ishikawa (dr,percs) often appears unexpected small halls in Tokyo to join gigs.
Toshiaki Chiku(gt,vo) also appears alone with his acoustic guitar somewhere in Chiang Mai, Thailand.