CICALA-MVTA

Cicala-Mvta biography
Cicala-Mvta (pronounced shikala moota) is a Japanese RIO/Avant-Prog band formed in 1994 by multi-instrumentalist Wataru Ōkuma (clarinet, bass clarinet, vocalsand also includes Yoshiyuki Kawaguchi (saxophone), Yoshiki Sakurai (guitar), Takerō Sakijima (tuba, recorder), Tatsuya Yoshida(drums, vocals), Keisuke Ōta (violin, vocals), Yoshiaki Satō (accordion), Yōichirō Kita (trumpet), Akiko Watanabe (trombone) and Miwazō Kogure (ching-dong, gorosu). This incredibly diverse brass/woodwinds based band incorporates Japanese Chindon (street music) with Klezmer, Jazz, folk, punk, noise and traditional music from various ethnic regions. Their name is Italian and taken from gravestone of the most famous street singer/songwriter in Japan before the 1920?s, Soeda Azembo. A man who, unable to speak his mind in fear of being thrown into prison, compared his inability to speak freely to having a cicala stuck in his throat, a ?mute Cicada.? Cicala-Mvta is a highly creative band and is recommended to fans of music at that moves at break neck speeds, such as Koenjihyakkei or Ruins.

=Bio by Evolutionary Sleeper=