Z - “Mikabe”

Z - “Mikabe”
TDR003
Release date: 26 February 2007
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Formed from the ashes of legendary Japanese punk band There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Z combine free form jazz with explosive intensity on their debut album “Mikabe”.

“US hardcore blast of yore gets caught up in a powerful free jazz vibe. Z are defiantly rock, but it is hard not to imagine the ghosts of Kaoru Abe and Masayuki Takayanagi slowly nodding their heads in approval” - The Wire

“Z brood malevolently, sometimes enigmatically before exploding into cascades of precise noise. They are cutting, ethereal, occasionally brutal and maybe even beautiful” - New Noise

“a brilliant, vital fusion of free jazz and abrasive, discordant punk…bewilderingly beautiful” - Subba-Cultcha

“a wholly assured and involving debut release” - Rock-a-Rolla

Track Listing:
1. Gohyaku Manyen
2. Mugen
3. Zushiki Man
4. Ikusa
5. Netsumonogatari
6. Daikainenten

Bonus DVD Track Listing:
1. Gohyaku Manyen
2. Netsumonogatari
3. Zushiki Man