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| Far East Acid House Quartet - Discography |
| >>>>> Far East Acid House Quartet : Basic Info |
| Techno / rave band (1988-97) |
| Members (Instruments) : |
Elisa Tajima
(Dance, Percussion, Sitar, TB-303) [1966-1997] |
| Albums : |
| "A Billion Nerve
Needles" (1988) "Metal Flowers Bloom On My Heart " (1991) * "Illegal Rave" (1993) "Lung Fish Dreams " (1995) "Sunspot" (1997) "Electric Locust " (1998) |
| Related Genre : |
| trance, acid house, techno, ambient, experimental, IDM |
| Similar Artists : |
| Astral Projection, Hallucinogen, The KLF, Apollp440, Orbital, Future Sound Of London |
| Influenced : |
| Pink Floyd, Syd Barret, Grateful Dead, The Doors, Psychic TV |
| Collaborated Artists : |
| Madame Juju, Hypnotic Twin |
| Related Sites > |
| "Illegal Rave" - Far East Acid House Quartet : Fan Site / Web Database (Japan) |
| Rave Scripture - Far East Acid House Quartet > AQi Fzono + Space DJ Ryo iemail Dialogs +, Q&Aj |
| Midara-gokoro Official Site |
| FZONO.COM - AQi Fzono Official Site |
| AQi Fzono: Visionary Music Encyclopedia - Databese / Fan Site in Japan |
| Far East Acid House Quartet |
| Far East Acid House Quartet was an anti-commercialism cult band of acid house / experimental techno music performed almost exclusively in underground clubs in Europe and Asia, including their native Japan, and well received in local level everywhere. |
| The previous incarnation of this
Japanese quartet was an experimental psychedelic band called "Midara-gokoro"
( in Japanese it means "Lecherous-minded") in 1987, the
band consisted of an avant-garde saxophonist Kaworu Ichikawa,
a "psychedelic" Space DJ Ryo, and the dancer
Elisa Tajima who was influenced by Japanese Ankoku-Butoh movement and synthesizer musician and composer AQi
Fzono . The same year they went to London and were much influenced by the acid house movement known as "Second Summer of Love". So the band was renamed as Far East Acid House Quartet during this long vacation. They released their first album "A Billion Nerve Needles" in 1988. This album, known as a psychedelic drug-induced work, was dedicated to the French surreal poet / painter Henri Michaux (1899-1984 ). |
| They became known as one of the pioneering few of acid house and movement and as the first "Illegal Rave" performance band in Asia. They held "Illegal Rave" series performance mainly in the underground techno scene Asia and Europe and became known as the cult band. On the other hand they created a commune named "Ash and Sun Republic" as a miniature-state-within-the-state, where some Japanese "acid house generation" hippies gathered, in a house in Nagano prefecture, the countryside of Japan. While living in the house in Nagano and during their stay in Edam (Holland), they recorded "Metal Flowers Bloom On My Heart" (1991) ( out of print ) in the kitchen of their commune house that was the first album of this cult band. |
| Since 1989 the dancer Elisa began to dance in front of the theremin. Electronic sounds generated according to movements of the dancer's body in real time - Fzono originated this amazing idea. In 1992 they stopped almost all live performances at the clubs in order to protest commercialization of Japanese electronic music and club culture. And they started afresh as a "recording band" after they released the albums such as "Illegal Rave" (1993), "Lung Fish Dreams "(1995) features psychedelic trance and also IDM type experimental works, |
| The band dispersed during the recording sessions of the third album in 1995 - 97 by the premature death of the two women ; dancer Elisa Tajima and wind player Kaworu Ichikawa. In 1997 they released the 5th album "Sunspot" (1997/ Only 300 Copy Limited Edition) and the concept album which describes future cyberworld featuring processed vocals "ELectric Locust" (1998) became their last album. |
