TOMOYUKI TRIO : 'SHITSUREN' (2024) and 'MARS' (2023) LP'S

MARS : (Riot Season 2023)

Tomoyuki Trio’s Voiceless Cry begins with a surge of gradually blaring static. It practically bubbles out of the speakers and into your auditory canals with aplomb. But then the guitar of frontman and Up-Tight founder Tomoyuki Aoki’s vicious guitar pierces the veil. It cuts like a razor and presents a startling, and daresay, uncomfortable contrast of mass and edge. Paired with delayed vocals that seem to be echoing from another dimension, and you have Mars.

Active since 1992, Tomoyuki-san’s brand of psychedelic rock travels upon a similar crooked axis to fellow Japanese artists Acid Mothers Temple. It touches on the scary side, a sense of peril amidst floral beauty and spacey freakouts. t, Tomoyuki has worthy copilots on his spacey journey to realms wild and loud…

The aptly titled Metagalactic gives off a truly rip roaring Hawkwind feel and all you can do is grip the sides of your chair and hang on for dear life. Universum returns to a blues-based cosmic jam with serpentine fuzz guitar snaking in and out of rhythmic pulses, while the closer Aether burns like an angry planetoid composed entirely of feedback.

As a record, Mars keeps a singular focus. The tracks maintain a sense of consistent psychedelic chaos. With Sneddon and Vest, Tomoyuki has worthy copilots on his spacey journey to realms wild and loud. If you want more danger in your mental space journey, Mars is the musical planet you’re looking for.

SHITSHUREN (Cardinal Fuzz/ Feeding 2024)

2nd LP from TOMOYUKI TRIO. Tomoyuki Aoki is the founding member and lead guitarist of the legendary Tokyo Psych Monsters UP-TIGHT. Of all the Japanese psych-rock groups that emerged in the late nineties and early noughties, Up-Tight are the most reverent, the most directly plugged into the source, from their name (Velvet Underground) with knowing referential song titles like “Sweet Sister” to their extended heavy, dark black clad acid fried one chord psych melters -- we're talking bands like Fushitsusha, White Heaven, Kousokuya, Shizuka, and the grandaddies of 'em all, the deservedly-legendary, Les Rallizes Denudes.

Shitsuren If anything has got an even heavier, dronier edge than what we heard on the last one. Super fuzzed guitars, sad ballads, grinding distorto epics and numbed, narcotic rhythms. This is one to play at maximum volume so that you can soak up its molten magik as over 2 sides of Shitsuren’s grueling guitar hypnotics you uncover the darker side of the ensembles personality to find them digging deep to drag the audience with them into the shadows of stoner psyche. A riotous concoction of ferociously brooding, locked down heavy bearing intensity of fierce/brutal speaker battering in the red levels.

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