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仮 (Kari) BAND - 侍 (Samurai) Groove (Patreon)

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2025-04-27 15:00:12
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2026-06
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I wasn't expecting to have my ears graced with a mixture of progressive rock and jazz.

This fusion was like your favorite cocktail being made the right way. Like my scotch on the rocks with just the right amount of water.

This one felt...gooooooooood!

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Juan San

Hey, glad you liked it. This band was formed by three of the musicians who were part of the Kami Band: Mikio Fujioka (guitar), BOH (bass), and Yuya Maeta (drums). As it was a side project they used to experiment and play with other colleagues, they called it Kari, meaning "temporary." In 2017, they released the album Kari Ongen. At that time, the three musicians were part of the larger project, Baby Metal. You can recognize them by their makeup in many performances from that era, along with other musicians such as Leda Cygnus, Takayoshi Omura, and Hideki Aoyama. The sad part of the story... in 2018, Mikio Fujioka died in an accident, leaving behind a wife and young son. He was an extremely beloved figure in the music scene and left all his contemporaries in shock. At the farewell concert that Kami Band held for Fujioka, they played "The Hill of Wisteria" with Takayosi Omura on guitar. I've never been able to watch the video without shedding a tear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeB_g1JaQY8 In 2020, BOH (bassist) and Maeta (drummer) partnered with Satoshi Oka (the guitarist you see in this video), a former student of Fujioka's, to release the album Nimaime and help with the financial situation of the deceased musician's family with its sale. This album has a favorite place in my collection for its musical value and emotional significance. You can find various Kari Band collaborations with friends on YouTube who add other instruments (keyboards, sax, etc.); I think you'll like them.

Andrew Hellebrand

This is a slightly shortened edit of the song for the music video, the full version is extended to 5 mins 46 seconds. The rhythm section of BoH (bassist) and Yuya Maeta (drums) are both alumni of the Japanese Kami Band and founded this project with one of the most well known of the Kami Band guitarists Mikio Fujioka in 2017, he was also well respected as a teacher and his style was heavily influenced by the lyrical approach of Jeff Beck. They released one mini album with him before his tragic passing in January 2018 (he fell from an observation platform whilst star gazing). This song is from their second mini album 'Nimaime', which features a bunch of friends and students of Mikio. The album version of the track has Satoshi Oka (seen in the video) and Yusuke Hiraga on guitar (the second guitar lines are him, he also has a dueling solo in the longer version) who were both his students. The main guitar theme is based on a phrase that Mikio had written for a rhythm track BoH and Yuya had previously recorded and the song is meant as a sequel to 'Ninja groove' from their first album.

Andrew Hellebrand

There's been different phases of groups that have backed Baby-Metal live. In the early years they had skeleton dressed miming 'musicians' called the Babybones band who just acted more for visuals and had no involvement in the studio recordings. One of the early studio guitarists was Shiren from Unlucky Morpheus. From late 2012 they introduced live musicians dressed in white robes and corpse paint that became known as the Kami Band. They were initially used more for festivals and special events but gradually appeared more frequently as time went on and by early 2014 the Babybones band had been quietly retired. Between 2014-17 the regular backing Japanese Kami Band musicians got featured quite heavily in live performances, as well as the press and the fanbase got to know them and their other projects. After Mikio's death this seemed to revert back more towards anonymity, with several of the most famous Kami Band musicians getting phased out and in 2019 they introduced a Western version (a quartet of US musicians) of the Kami Band for European & US touring, around the same time that they added the masks to the stage outfits.

William Hallisey

There are so many music fans from the West who are making pilgrimage to Japan to find some much of what we are missing from there.

MrMette

There certainly is some heavier Jazz Fusion in Japan, like the band Fragile which has amazing players including Senri Kawaguchi's (Jazz Avengers among others) late teacher/mentor (Kozo Suganuma) under who she learned since she was 8 years old until he sadly passed away in 2021. It's probably not as heavy as this all the time, but it gets there in some tracks. Senri did a show with the guitarist of Fragile (Koichi Yabori) a couple of years ago (with a project called Uragaeru) where they covered all Fragile songs that evening and recorded it live. You can find one of the tracks on her channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx-PG7www7Y) The guitarist actually helped her out plenty of times both live and with her records over the years. She also just started a new project with the bassist of Fragile (Masatoshi Mizuno), which is also Jazz Fusion. The project is called Nankai Trio and just released an album. They also have 2 full songs on their channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-g5-DX9h9M and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0a3HdFyexE). It's not as heavy as this, but it's great Jazz Fusion. I also saw a streamed live show of them before the album released and it was great. As far as the Kari Band goes, I own the releases they have but probably don't listen to them enough. I like them a lot though, it's just that while I did stumble into Japanese jazz and jazz fusion a little before getting into the rock/metal scene, it's not something I constantly listen to. Everytime I see a streamed liveset it's amazing though. I know the one of the CDs of the Kari Band I own has some collabs on it including Saxophone played by Yucco Miller who I do own a couple of albums by. While not everything by hear is necessarily for me, her performance on that Kari Band album is great. She also performed with Senri Kawaguchi quite a while ago (I think both were still teenagers) in a performance that I rewatch regularly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eIeMPhXhSQ), it's a cover of "Lover Come Back To Me" and while I think all 4 members in that performance (I think for a DVD of Yucco Miller) are teenagers, or maybe in their early 20's (I know Senri was around 16 at the time), it's a fantastic cover. (edit: I am just going to play that video again).