Showing posts with label Akira Ishikawa and the Count Buffaloes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Akira Ishikawa and the Count Buffaloes. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

And Bands: Pygmy





























As the entries below already made clear, this week's theme provides ample opportunity to go obscure. And why not indeed? So let me highlight Japrockers Akira Ishikawa & The Count Buffaloes, one of the first bands to come up when I punched in & The in my iTunes. The psychedelic sludge groove of Pigmy ('72) was inspired by an actual visit to Uganda, where drummer Ishikawa spent some high times studying African percussion techniques. Space guitar courtesy of Kimio Mizutani.