They sound right up your street Spaz..........(KW runs in the opposite direction)
Japanese Zeuhl band. Seems like Japan is the only other country besides France where one can find good Zeuhl. The second album is excellent, like Magma at their most percussive, with plenty of strange vocal chorusing and lots of other effects. It’s a bit less jazzy and at times more strange than Magma. Some excellent guitar solos, and other interesting instrumentation (violin, marimba) make for some highly original music, highly recommended for fans of Zeuhl . The third and fourth albums are even heavier and less Zeuhlish, and both have long repetitive tracks. Not quite as good as II. -- Rolf Semprebon
Maybe one of Japans best Zeuhl bands during the 9ties (along with Ruins and Happy Family). They reached their peak with II, a disc full of heavy and dark tunes, typical hysteric Zeuhl vocals and weird guitar playing. The 15 minute "Terminal Man" is certainly one of the most impressive pieces of progressive music I ever heard coming from Japan! III Receit, a live recording, is said to contain more improvised jazz rock (a la Mahavishnu), especially as the main female vocalist left the band after II. -- Achim Breiling
On "IV":
I haven't heard this band until now, though I am acquainted with their biography and know that in the beginning of their activity they had a female vocalist in the line-up. Guitarist Kido Natsuki is the band's absolute leader and he composed all of the material on the completely instrumental album IV. Musically, it represents a unique blend of RIO, Classic Art-Rock, and Avant-garde, though it's all wrapped up in guitar heavy riffs and improvisations or improvisation-alike solos. The last two are ingredients of two genres more, - Prog-Metal and Jazz-Fusion, - so the music of Bondage Fruit is really a kind of phenomenon on the progressive scene. What's the main thing, however, is that music is very interesting, but at the same time so complex and intricate that only the most adventurous and profound Prog-lovers will be able to comprehend it after several attentive listens. -- Vitaly Menshikov
These are snippets taken from the Gibralter Prog site. Hope they Help.
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