A Pilgrimage to Eighty-Eight Places
September 26, 2020 8:58 PM   Subscribe

88Kasyo Junrei (八十八ヶ所巡礼) is a three-piece Japanese rock band. The band’s name refers to a Buddhist pilgrimage that involves visiting eighty-eight temples on the island of Shikoku. Their music videos can be spellbinding but also kind of weird. Their songs deal with afterlife disorientation, the tenuousness of sanity, and, apparently, demons living in a Kowloon arcade. The band has a mascot, o-henro-san, who graces their album covers and appears in one rather trippy video.

88Kasyo Junrei is:
The intensely stylish Margaret Hiroi on bass and vocals
The usually half-naked Kenzo on drums
The glammer-bedecked Katzuya Shimizu on guitar

More tunes:
攻撃的国民的音楽 (“Agressive National Music”)
金土日 (“Friday, Saturday, Sunday”)
脳の王国 (“Kingdom of the Mind”)
posted by jabah (6 comments total) 26 users marked this as a favorite
 
八十八ヶ所巡礼 is amazing. Worth checking out.
posted by The Half Language Plant at 9:20 PM on September 26, 2020 [2 favorites]


Oh nice that “Kowloon arcade” video was shot at Anata no Warehouse in Kawasaki back before they closed

I do not know why someone decided that the thing their arcade needed was to look like the Kowloon Walled City, but it sure was a heck of a place
posted by DoctorFedora at 10:41 PM on September 26, 2020 [3 favorites]


Not often that I hear both Robert Fripp and Kevin Shields influences in one band. And that drummer is solid. Nice find - thank you!
posted by flabdablet at 11:30 PM on September 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


M. O. 8 / 八十八ヶ所巡礼

Shit-hot.
posted by flabdablet at 6:00 AM on September 27, 2020 [1 favorite]


ROCK AND ROLL, MOTHERFUCKER!

she's not wrong
posted by flabdablet at 6:08 AM on September 27, 2020 [1 favorite]


This is great. Needs some repeated listening, or at least some listening not early on a Sunday morning. Thanks! Definitely some Fripp-ishness in some of these.
posted by SoberHighland at 9:54 AM on September 27, 2020


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