Happy Family

   
Artist: Happy Family

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   ROck: Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Toscco

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 9


   
 Happy Family

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 7

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Formed in 1987 at Tokyo's University of Meiji, the instrumental quartette Happy Family describes its music as chamber jazz-rock driven by the fast and big rhythms of intemperate rock. Reference points include Magma, Univers Zero and Henry Cow, but Happy Family bet out its possess turf with its stunning, sometimes raging, intensity.


Founding members Kenichi Morimoto (keyboards), Shigeru Makino (guitar) and Tatsuya Miyano (electric fretless bass) were joined by drummer Keiichi Nagase in 1990. This quartet issued several tapes earlier cathartic Happy Family on the Cuneiform label in 1995. Takahiro Izutani replaced Makino, delivery a grittier sound to the group's second base CD, Toscco, once more on Cuneiform.


Morimoto, world Health Organization enjoys jazz-rock, chamber-rock and avant stone, composes a good deal of the group's material. Miyano exemplifies the "zeuhl" stylus of Magma bassists Jannik Top and Bernard Paganotti. Miyano is a member of Mekanik Kommandoh, a Magma pass over band formed by Tatsuya Yoshida, leader of the Japanese punk-zeuhl radical, Ruins. Nagase, world Health Organization intentional the covers for the band's releases, contributes rhythmical complexity to Happy Family's music.