ASAKUSA JINTA
ASAKUSA JINTA takes their name and inspiration from the Tokyo historic
District where jintas (roving Japanese street bands) once filled the streets. The
Band’s mixtures of punk, ska, swing, and march music (performed by the six-piece outfit including standup bass, horns, and rhythm section) began driving audiences wild in 1999. Asakusa Jinta’s dynamic display earned a reputation throughout their hometown of Tokyo for vibrant (bordering on frantic) live performances, featuring outlandish swing-era-gone-mad costumes and typically standing-room-only halls. With a horn section prone to marching through the packed audiences and a front man / bass player whose vocals conjure images of a carnival barker, Asakusa Jinta bring the spirit of chindon’ya (traditional Japanese street performance) to life.
ASAKUSA JINTA broke new ground at the 2007 South by Southwest festival in
Austin, performing as part of the festival’s Japan Nite showcase, and have appeared at international festivals such as Lowlands, Stockholm’s “Kulturfestival” and Finland’s “Helsinki Festival”, as well as Japan’s own “Fuji Rock” festival, leaving audiences wowed. In 2009, they brought their show to the UK, performed 6 shows across the country!.
In 2011, their 4th album is ready to release and they will prove their Asianican Hard Marching sounds is genuinely original yet international dance music to the world.
ASAKUSA JINTA is a hard marching band from Asakusa in Tokyo, Japan; they
Call them selves Asianican Hard Marching Band. Their music style is a mixture of
Rockabilly, up tempo country, punk and Japanese Eenka and Kayokyoku from the
1930′s. Their base is Asakusa, Tokyo’s old downtown, an area reminiscent of
Traditional Japan. They love this town and people who live their love the band as they are known as a marching band playing on the shopping streets or for weeklong parades.
ASAKUSA JINTA’s music theme is joy and sorrow of life and “Giri and Ninjo”,
The spirit of traditional Japanese emotions such as sympathy, compassion, love
And friendship. They are playing a style of music from the 1930s – actually it’s
More like a ’30s brass band that plays in many different styles. Some songs are
Like up tempo country or rockabilly, but most of it is just frenetic klesmer.
Just saxophones, trumpet and euphonium all playing lightning fast happy melodies while stand-up bass and drums and tubas throw down polka-style rhythms. The Hawaiian shirts and vaguely lounge-lizard outfits add the finishing touch to this eccentric band.
www.myspace.com/asakusajinta
District where jintas (roving Japanese street bands) once filled the streets. The
Band’s mixtures of punk, ska, swing, and march music (performed by the six-piece outfit including standup bass, horns, and rhythm section) began driving audiences wild in 1999. Asakusa Jinta’s dynamic display earned a reputation throughout their hometown of Tokyo for vibrant (bordering on frantic) live performances, featuring outlandish swing-era-gone-mad costumes and typically standing-room-only halls. With a horn section prone to marching through the packed audiences and a front man / bass player whose vocals conjure images of a carnival barker, Asakusa Jinta bring the spirit of chindon’ya (traditional Japanese street performance) to life.
ASAKUSA JINTA broke new ground at the 2007 South by Southwest festival in
Austin, performing as part of the festival’s Japan Nite showcase, and have appeared at international festivals such as Lowlands, Stockholm’s “Kulturfestival” and Finland’s “Helsinki Festival”, as well as Japan’s own “Fuji Rock” festival, leaving audiences wowed. In 2009, they brought their show to the UK, performed 6 shows across the country!.
In 2011, their 4th album is ready to release and they will prove their Asianican Hard Marching sounds is genuinely original yet international dance music to the world.
ASAKUSA JINTA is a hard marching band from Asakusa in Tokyo, Japan; they
Call them selves Asianican Hard Marching Band. Their music style is a mixture of
Rockabilly, up tempo country, punk and Japanese Eenka and Kayokyoku from the
1930′s. Their base is Asakusa, Tokyo’s old downtown, an area reminiscent of
Traditional Japan. They love this town and people who live their love the band as they are known as a marching band playing on the shopping streets or for weeklong parades.
ASAKUSA JINTA’s music theme is joy and sorrow of life and “Giri and Ninjo”,
The spirit of traditional Japanese emotions such as sympathy, compassion, love
And friendship. They are playing a style of music from the 1930s – actually it’s
More like a ’30s brass band that plays in many different styles. Some songs are
Like up tempo country or rockabilly, but most of it is just frenetic klesmer.
Just saxophones, trumpet and euphonium all playing lightning fast happy melodies while stand-up bass and drums and tubas throw down polka-style rhythms. The Hawaiian shirts and vaguely lounge-lizard outfits add the finishing touch to this eccentric band.
www.myspace.com/asakusajinta
