Rainbow Destroyer Blog

Had a strange and wonderful day yesterday. Met a friend in Kobe, got some ramen, and ended up meeting this really cool Japanese artist/music guy in a hat shop. He took us around different record shops for a while. Seo is his name (see pic on left).

From Kobe I left on the express train to Osaka, to a little place called Ogimachi park. Right across the street is this super small bar/livehouse called MUSICAJAPONICA. I got my name on the list for Nagisa Ni Te in two weeks and decided to stay and get drunk/listen to some music. I ended up hanging out with some Japanese guys, who I subsequently discovered were playing in this band from Kobe called Valva. They were gonna play later on in the night. Valva is basically like a throwback to some 60s/70s psychedellia with some strange peculiarities. The vocalist, MATSUO, is this super flamboyant dude, with a voice that is somewhere between a girl and a child. He might have been hitting on me, but I dunno. Either way he was chill. The guitarist (on the left in the videos) is SHIBUYA. We were talking about music for a while. Noise and stuff.

Other bands I saw: this band ジョズエ。and インコフェイス.
That would be Jozue and Inkoface. Inko means like fucked up. So fucked up face. They were really good too. Jozue isn't too different from Nagisa ni Te. Lots of 4ths and stuff. Nice and sad. Inkofacccee is a bit different. Got some video of them too. But it's shitty cell phone footage so apologies


VALVA
here's some cell phone footage. the file is called 3GP. it'll play in quicktime.
video001.3gp ジョズエ
video002.3gp　インコフェイス

Labels: Kobe, Musica Japonica, Ogimachi Park, Osaka, Valva