Afrirampo

Afrirampo
Origin	Osaka, Japan
Genres	Punk rock Noise rock Psychedelic rock Japanoise Alternative rock Garage rock
Years active	2002-2010, 2016-Present
Website	http://afrirampo.net

Past members	Oni (Beppin) Pikachu (Yasashii)

Afrirampo (あふりらんぽ, Afuriranpo) is a band from Osaka, Japan. The band was active from 2002 to 2010 and as of 2016 have announced their reform. The members are Oni (guitar, vocals) and Pikachu (drums, vocals).

Afrirampo's music often featured call and response vocals, catchy distorted pop melodies, looping fret noise, droning feedback, guttural barks and impromptu squealing. Their early albums featured a sound that could be described as noise-punk, albeit with surprisingly melodic vocal parts, along with some longer, less melodic improvised jam pieces. Their later albums, especially Suuto Breakor and We Are Uchu No Ko, featured a much more expansive sound, sometimes with very long songs and quieter, more ethereal passages. The band's later albums featured noticeable elements of African music, with a tribal percussive sound and call-and-response vocals. This derived in part from a 2004 stay with pygmy tribes in Cameroon documented on their 2006 album Baka Ga Kita.

After playing in several bands throughout their teens, Oni with an instrumental trio called Hankoki and Pikachu with a psychedelic quartet of girls called Z, the pair started Afrirampo in the spring of 2002 at the ages of 18 and 19.^[1] The period of 2002-2005 saw Afrirampo’s visibility within the ranks of contemporary noise rock increasing in a manner that Matthew Murphy of Pitchforkmedia.com described as "meteoric".^[2] This might be attributed to their powerful stage presence, and hyper-energized live performances which generated considerable interest within the alternative music press.

Afrirampo toured with Sonic Youth and Lightning Bolt, collaborated with Acid Mothers Temple and released several CDs on various labels. In 2005 they performed at All Tomorrow's Parties, the avant-garde music festival curated by Vincent Gallo, and joined performance artist Yoko Ono on stage for her closing piece.

Early in June 2010, Afrirampo announced that they would be disbanding after their final show in Osaka on June 26.^[3] However, their homepage stated in Japanese that if the "Mother of Heaven" called upon them to play together again, they would play. In the English version, they stated "If our mother of monster say "PLAY!PLAY!together!!", then we will play," indicating that the door may be open for future reunions.

Since breaking up, Afrirampo have maintained their website, released a live CD/DVD entitled Never Ending Afrirampo, consisting of material from their last performance on June 26, 2010, and have appeared together in each other's solo shows. They also did a special "Bye-bye Matsuri" performance on July 26, 2010, a month after their supposed final show, in which members of the Osaka underground music scene appeared with them onstage. Footage of this show also appears on Never Ending Afrirampo.

It was announced on their official website that the band were reforming in March 2016 after six years of hiatus to embark on a reunion tour in Japan.^[4]

Discography

Title	Release	Label
cava/kocchi e oide	Unknown	Enban
A	Unknown	Self-Released
Afrirampo	July, 2004	GYUUNE CASSETTE
A'	December, 2004	AMT
URUSA IN JAPAN	April 2005	Ki/oon Records
Kore Ga Mayaku Da	June, 2005	Tzadik (record label)
We Are Acid Mothers Afrirampo!	December, 2005	AMT
Baka ga kita!!!	July, 2006	Moonlight
Suuto Breakor	September, 2007	P-Vine
We Are Uchu No Ko	May, 2010	Supponpon
Never Ending Afrirampo	March, 2011	Ki-oon

References

↑ "Dusted Features". Retrieved 1 May 2016.
↑ "Afrirampo: Kore Ga Mayaku Da Album Review - Pitchfork". Retrieved 1 May 2016.
↑ "Afrirampo to disband". Retrieved 1 May 2016.
↑ "あふりらんぽ｜AFRIRAMPO". afrirampo.net. Retrieved 2016-03-27.

External links

Acid Mothers Temple

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Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. cassettes	Acid Mother's Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (1996) Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. 1 (1997) Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. 2 (1997)

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. studio albums	Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Wild Gals A Go-Go Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!!) New Geocentric World of Acid Mothers Temple In C 41st Century Splendid Man Electric Heavyland Univers Zen ou de zéro à zéro St. Captain Freak Out & the Magic Bamboo Request Magical Power from Mars Mantra of Love The Penultimate Galactic Bordello Also the World You Made Does the Cosmic Shepherd Dream of Electric Tapirs? Minstrel in the Galaxy Have You Seen the Other Side of the Sky? Myth of the Love Electrique Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo Acid Motherly Love Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness Glorify Astrological Martyrdom Cometary Orbital Drive Interstellar Guru and Zero Lord of the Underground: Vishnu and the Magic Elixir Are We Experimental? Dark Side of the Black Moon: What Planet Are We On? In 0 to ∞ Pink Lady Lemonade ~ You're From Inner Space The Ripper At The Heaven's Gates Of Dark Son of a Bitches Brew IAO Chant From The Melting Paraiso Underground Freak Out Cometary Orbital Drive to 2199 In Search of the Lost Divine Arc

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. compilation albums	The Early Acid Mothers Temple Recordings 1995-1997 (2007)

Acid Mothers Gong	Acid Motherhood (2004) Acid Mothers Gong Live Tokyo (2006)

Acid Mothers Afrirampo	We Are Acid Mothers Afrirampo! (2005)

Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno	Just Another Band from the Cosmic Inferno (2005) IAO Chant from the Cosmic Inferno (2005) Starless and Bible Black Sabbath (2006) Ominous From The Cosmic Inferno (2007) Pink Lady Lemonade ~ You're From Outer Space (2008)

Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues	Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues featuring the Sun Love and the Heavy Metal Thunder (2006)

Acid Mothers Guru Guru	Psychedelic Navigator (2007)

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