Day 167. All Macguffins pre-orders have been mailed! Hope you already got yours?
Do.The.Moozik!: this is actually a Youtube channel that just popped up last week. What’s great about it is that it has a bunch of live recordings by many classic bands including East Village, McCarthy, 14 Iced Bears, Biff Bang Pow!, Felt, The Wolfhounds and more. The rumour is that it will continue being updated so keep checking for more amazing material!
Gingerlys/Nausea: I didn’t know that Gingerlys was still going on. This is definitely cool, there is a new split tape with the Gingerlys from New York and the Indonesian band Nausea out on Shiny Happy Records. Both bands contribute two fantastic songs.
Asian Pop Heaven compilation: Shiny Happy Records seem to be doing a lot these days. Anot her tape they are releasing this month is this 20 song compilation that features so many amazing bands. It includes Cloudberry favourites like Ferns, Boyish or Sharesprings and many more like Ivory Past, The Lousy Pop Group… this is a must!
Nature TV: now let’s head to Brighton to discover this four piece formed by Guy, Zal, Josh and Solo. Their latest song is called “Hometown” and it is a lovely jangle song. Also the artwork is really cool!
The Smashing Times: wasn’t aware of this Baltimore band who released last December their “Come Along with Me EP” on Painter Man Records. The EP came out as a tape and includes 7 lo-fi jangly songs.
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It is very possible that this Japanese band names themselves after the George Harrison song “Apple Scruffs”. Or perhaps after the loosely-knit group of hardcore Beatles fans who were known for congregating outside the Apple Corps building and at the gates of Abbey Road Studios in London during the waning days of Beatlemania, in the hope of seeing or interacting with one of the band members.
That is my guess. Would need to get in touch to find out of course. I discovered this band not too long ago through their song “Sunday Sunshine”. A terrific song that sounds like Manchester!
This song was released in a compilation album called “Flower’s Flavor – Under Flower Compilation” that came out in 1992 on the very fine Under Flower Records (FLOWER-001). I am not too familiar with other bands on this comp, but I see Sunshower who I have featured in the blog in the past.
As far as I know the band didn’t release any records. They did appear on 3 other compilations, always on Under Flower Records. Each time it was a different song.
In 1992 they contributed “Coloured” to “The Reality of Flowers” CD comp (FLOWER-002). Then in 1993 they had “Edward and Scientist” on the Flower’s Make Sense!!: Under Flower Compilation Vol.3″ (FLOWER-003). And lastly, that same year, they had “Dazzlin'” on another CD compilation called “Enchanted by the Flower’s: “Under Flower Compilation Vol. 4” (FLOWER-004).
There is not much info, but could find the band members.
Taro Sakai on vocals and slide guitar and bass
Koichi Sato on drums
Hironori Hagaoka on guitars
Momoko Mayuzmi on backing vocals
We also know that Fumitake Sakamoto played 12-string guitar on “Edward and Scientist” and Yuji Kiniigata played harp and vocals on the same song.
I keep looking and find yet another compilation, one called “Under Flower Nation 15th Anniversary Compilation Love Flowers” (FLOWER90). It seems this one was released in 2007 and included the song “Sunday Sunshine”.
And that’s it really. No more information about them.
Were they involved in another bands? Did they record more music? Maybe they released more music? Would be so great to find out!
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