MARBLE SHEEP

Marble Sheep biography
MARBLE SHEEP were formed around Ken Matsutani (guitar, voices), who is the representative director of Captain Trip Records. On July 1, 1987 they made their debut on stage of 'Yaneura' in Tokyo, under the name of Marble Sheep & The Run-down Sun's Children. In early days, they made lots of gigs with enthusiasm in spite of their line-up instability. Many cassette albums with the gigs released one after another could make not only audience but reviewers and listeners get excited. Their musical style is heavy, psychedelic and spacey rock like Minimal Music, and much influenced by American Psych Rock like Grateful Dead and Krautrock. But by their line-up instability, repeated trial and error, they fell suspended in 1994.

After several years of hibernation they were born again as MARBLE SHEEP. They emphasized the colour of Space Punk Rock with twin drums and twin guitars, and extensively made gigs around the world. From 2001 they released five albums with stoner psychedelic punk style and have reached the peak of their popularity. Current members are Ken (guitar, voices), Zigen (guitar), Iwamotor (drums), and Baby (bass) with a support drummer Tarou. 'In contrast with the long history of the band, Marble Sheep are described as Merry Pranksters of the 21st Century' they express on the official website. That's it!