Suishou no Fune are a band from Japan i like. Pirako sings and plays guitar and Kageo also plays guitar. They run a curry shop in west Tokyo. Here they are playing at Echo in Shibuya. This is the first song they played, and i like that the recording shows Pirako frustrated with equipment not working properly. In this instance Mark Anderson is drumming. He is the drummer in two other Tokyo bands:

One band is called ‘Greymouth’, a duo, with sound artist and physicist Mark Sadgrove. Greymouth’s debut release was recently reviewed favorably in ‘The Wire’ magazine, which is notable. Thurston Moore, from Sonic Youth, reviewed the first release of Mark’s other band, ‘Mysteries of Love’s ‘wasted love’ cassette (HERE). Debatably, this was a positive review. Mark is also my neighbour, and in general i give him a favorable review. I just heard that he spent the evening in Shinjuku’s red light district paying to having the dead skin on his feet eaten by fish (HERE).