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‘Their
wry humour makes this mixture
of new material and tracks from
vinyl-only singles (fans of which
include Tiga and
LCD Soundsystem) not just one of
the year’s freshest dance records
but also
the wittiest.’ The
Guardian
'Succulent
and soulful' NME |
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Transparent
Things is the title of a book
by Vladimir Nabokov, and also
the title of the latest album
from Fujiya & Miyagi. Following
the sell-out success of their
first three Tirk 10” vinyl-only
singles, In One Ear & Out
The Other/Conductor 71, Collarbone
/ Cassettesingle, Ankle Injuries/
Photocopier, this latest release
compiles new versions of those
six tracks, available for the
first time on CD, with three
previously unreleased scorchers:
Sucker Punch, Transparent Things,
and Cylinders.
Now that ‘Transparent Things’ has
managed to take on a cult life of
it’s own and with an ever-growing
worldwide fan-base it was decided
to re-release the album.
Fujiya & Miyagi are David Best
(Miyagi, vocals, guitar, occasional
but strictly non-progrock Moog),
Steve Lewis (Fujiya, keyboards, beats,
programming), and Matt Hainsby (Ampersand,
bass guitar).
The story of how they met and formed
the band variously reports a mutual
hero-worship of world heavyweight
wrestler Kendo Nagasaki (from Wolverhampton,
and like the boys from F&M, not
a Japanese cell in his muscle-bound
body), and a shared interest in krautrock
and early-nineties electronica discovered
while warming the subs bench during
Sunday league football.
And the name…? David explains, ‘Miyagi
was taken from the film ‘The
Karate Kid’ and Fujiya was
the name of a record player. It just
looked really nice written down.
And it was the only name we came
up with.’
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Fujiya & Miyagi
produce a sound that has been
located by the music and media
fraternity as somewhere between
Can, Happy Mondays, Alabama 3,
Kraftwerk and Talking Heads.
This, combined with David's eclectic
line in lyrics: I've got a slow,
a slow, a slow metabolism, has
won them an excited legion of
supporters, among whom may be
counted DFA, Tiga, Andrew Weatherall,
Chicken Lips, Damo Suzuki, BBC
6 Music's Tom Robinson and Xfm's
John Kennedy. |
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