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Accidentals latest signing 'SETSUBUN BEAN UNIT' release their debut album on the 13th August 07.

Born out of a 2005 trip to Tokyo by members of the Farmyard Animals (Gideon Juckes, Brendan Kelly, Pete Flood), sometime Bellowhead compatriots and general intrepid jazz livestock adventurers. Bearing witness to the Japanese festivals of Setsubun (the very lively Spring festival where soya beans are thrown in the air, in order to cast away Demons and bring good luck into the household) and Bon Odori (here, energetic and often bawdy songs are sung over a heavy and hypnotic groove accompanying local folk dancers dressed in Yukata (Summer kimonos), to honour the spirits of dead ancestors), the band decided that this intoxicating amalgam of live bean scattering and heavy dance groove would confound and excite the uninitiated palettes of the West. Thereby combining their jazz, dub and electronic funk with the rhythms and songs of traditional Japanese folk music (played by fellow band members Simon King, Yuki Yamashita, Takuma Kawauchiya and singer Kamura) and driven by the energy of the Bon dancers (Kay Oishi and Akiko Sato), a new sight and sound has been born which is quite unlike anything you’ve heard. Kudoro meets Konono. No. 1 in downtown Tokyo, whilst Miles Davis plays in the background.
   
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