∞8∞ [AKA: OOIOO]

A lot of bands that appeared in scene of Prog Rock of Japan in the latter half of the 90's exist. The flow with the tendency with stronger element of techno and the avant-garde from the music that had derived in the 70's happened temporarily in the main current that existed in the flow. A very high-quality band existed also in Japan though it was independent production. However, the flow also conceived the element that temporarily lost the directionality of music on the state of saturation oppositely. The direction of Prog Rock of Japan that cultivated it in the 70's was changed the shape of the music character and moved. If the flow for the music of Japan was chased, it was music to take the lock to the Folk music as a tendency to have been influenced from other countries exactly in the 70's. And, the lock takes the element of temporary techno and rushes into in the 80's. A band active by independent music catches the direction from the angle besides the flow and tries Zeuhl and experimental music.

However, circumstances of the music of Japan also have absorbed the element of various music on the state of temporary saturation in the latter half of the 90's. Even the listener in Japan might have indeed given birth to the music produced with the flow to the result of the approval or disapproval's extending. Element of avant-garde and pop. And, there was often a minority in the listener in Japan that liked experimental music for the music character at this time. In the existence of the band with an especially high evaluation in foreign countries also in the band in Japan, the mistake is not found. Even a very listener in Japan guesses they are chased.

It was existence that the name of the band is often known to this band formed by the idea of Yoshimi P-we that was on the register in Boredoms in circumstances of the music of Japan guessed it was in the state of such saturation. There was an idea to say in about 1996 that Yoshimi would do produce the band of fictitious by planning the magazine of Japan. The start band debuts from the project this band with this album. It is said that the origin of the name of OOIOO sees the memo of Yamathuka Eye of Boredoms by Yoshimi, sees writing on the page as "OOIOO", and made it the name of the band.

It is an element of the noise in the avant-garde. And, progressing the tune to which the forecast doesn't adhere etc. are guessed to be time of the main current a little as a flow of the band that relates to Prog Rock of Japan of this time. It is not an exaggeration even if it catches as a band that derives from Boredoms. However, there might be a fact from which a loose a few impressions are given to the listener in this album produced in the flow that existed in the period at that time, too. The band started certainly from this album and greeted the listener. If only this album is said, the experimental element cannot feel the space that gives a loose impression and overflows from the inside so much. However, posture in which it challenges these music is one form that the music of Japan that digested Folk and Rock obtained and the part calculated to some degree might be able to be felt if it listens to music from another angle.

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