Reiko Kudo
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Reiko Kudo is the partner of Tori Kudo
of the Japanese underground music group Maher Shalal Hash Baz
. In the late seventies and early eighties, while still known under her maiden name of Reiko Omura, she led a unit called Noise. Noise played in Tokyo underground venues like Minor (alongside groups like Fushitsusha
and Kousokuya
), and released one album, Tenno. As well as often singing with and writing songs for Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Reiko is an accomplished musician in her own right, having created several albums of limpid, lucid observation and an exceedingly fragile sense of melody.
Solo
Tori Kudo
Tori Kudo is a Japanese musician, composer and potter, active since the late seventies, and best known for his strikingly naive work in the group Maher Shalal Hash Baz.-External links:* * *...
of the Japanese underground music group Maher Shalal Hash Baz
Maher Shalal Hash Baz
Maher Shalal Hash Baz is the artistic alter ego of Tori Kudo, a Japanese naivist composer and musician. The name is taken from Maher-shalal-hash-baz in the Book of Isaiah verses 8:1 and 8:3, and translates roughly as "Hurrying to the spoil, he has made haste to the plunder." Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz...
. In the late seventies and early eighties, while still known under her maiden name of Reiko Omura, she led a unit called Noise. Noise played in Tokyo underground venues like Minor (alongside groups like Fushitsusha
Fushitsusha
Fushitsusha is a Japanese rock band specialising in the psychedelic rock, space rock and noise rock genres. The band consists of electric guitarist and singer Keiji Haino, and a shifting cast of complementary musicians. The group released the majority of its material in the 1990s.-History:Haino...
and Kousokuya
Kousokuya
Kōsokuya is a Japanese dark psychedelic rock band. This rock outfit, founded by guitarist Jutok Kaneko in the late 1970s, has released only a handful of recordings internationally, and scant more in their local Tokyo underground scene...
), and released one album, Tenno. As well as often singing with and writing songs for Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Reiko is an accomplished musician in her own right, having created several albums of limpid, lucid observation and an exceedingly fragile sense of melody.
Discography
Noise- V.A., Heaven Tapes (Heaven, 1979)
- Noise, Tenno (Engel, 1980; reissed on LP, Org, 1997; on CD, Pataphysique 1997; Alchemy, 2005)
- Inryofuen / Gyoshinkyoku + noise live '82.7.11 (Cragale, 1999, cdr)
Solo
- Fire Inside My Hat (Org, 1997)
- 夜の稲 (Yoru no ina)/rice field silently riping in the night (Majikick/Periodic Document, 2001)
- 人 (Hito)/person (Hyotan, 2006)
- 草 (Kusa)/grass (Hyotan, 2006)
- ちりをなめる (Chiri wo nameru)/licking up dust (Hyotan, 2007)