Melt-Banana

“Melt-Banana have remained like an eye of a hurricane that’s 10 times crazier than the hurricane itself”. – Pitchfork

MELT-BANANA is a two-piece band based in Tokyo, Japan. The members are YAKO (vo.) and AGATA (g.). The band has released seven studio albums, two live albums, and two singles collections. They have been performing together for more than 25 years, and their range of work is pretty wide.

They seem to be in so called underground scene in Japan such as noise music scene or hard-core scene, and at the same time, they also played shows as support act for the Wire, Tool, MGMT, Napalm Death and took part in a festival curated by the late Lou Reed at Opera House in Sydney; as well as friendship with various artists like Mike Patton, Shellac, Wire, Mogwai, Karl Hyde of Underworld.

They already finished tracking down for a new album and hope to release it by the end of the year. Though its release date has not been confirmed, MELT-BANANA did not have time to wait and decided to start the “3 + 5” tour.

They are scheduled to tour in the U.S. starting in May, as well as in Europe and the U.K. by the end of the year and the new album release schedule will be announced shortly.

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