About 水晶の舟

水晶の舟 (Suishou No Fune) is an underground psychedelic rock band from Tokyo, Japan. Formed in July, 1999 as a duo of female guitarist Pirako Kurenai and male guitarist Kageo, Suishou no Fune (swee-show no foo-neh) have been making some of the most charmingly chaotic dream music coming out of Japan. Their sound contains subcutaneous elements of no-wave energy mixed with psychedelic rock a la early 不失者 (Fushitsusha) or 光束夜 (Kousokuya). Other songs approach balladry with oddly beautiful twinned vocals and distorted guitars. They have performed around Tokyo with a list of people who could succinctly be described as everybody and were even invited to play Scotland's Weekend festival in 2005. "The group's sound runs from massively distended nod-outs that recall parts of the first Fushitsusha album through weird duo tracks that orbit a parallel universe where late-period John Fahey was the prime influence on Charalambides, infernal Dead C/Gate style guitar abuse and achingly beautiful comedown ballads. The twin vocalists are massively different in their approach, with Pirako singing in a high wayward style that's all throat and no lungs while Kageo works from the other end of the pipes with a ripped Father Yod / Jim Morrison / Keiji Haino polyglot. Simply one of the greatest out-of-nowhere groups to come out of the Tokyo underground in years and the undisputed stars of PSF's recent Tokyo Flashback 5 compilation." -Volcanic Tongue Official site: http://www.suishounofune.jp