Accidental Records

Release: Setsubun Bean Unit

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:06:43 -0700

News: Setsubun Bean Unit-weirdest Album Of The Year!

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:01:42 -0700

Setsubun Bean Unit unleash their monstrous mix of Japanese dub funk this week. Critics have so far dubbed it:

"the oddest pleasure you'll experience all year." [The Independent]

"some of the most unclassifiable and exhilarating contemporary music you've ever heard." [FROOTS]

"endlessly surprising and enjoyable.....perversely catchy" [Howard Male, The Independent on Sunday]

"the sort of album that will keep revealing hidden treasures on every single subsequent listen" [Boomkat]

Rush out and grab your copy here

News: Oni-wa Soto! Fuku-wa Uchi! Goodbye Winter! Hallo Spring! Demons Out! Happiness In!

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:07:20 -0700

Accidental are proud as punch to tell you all that the eponymous debut from Japanese traditional space funk band, Setsubun Bean Unit, is out this week!
Having conquered Sonar in June, the band have been busy developing their live show which they'll unleash on the UK in an extensive tour later this year. Written by members of Folk outfit Bellowhead, their sound is a heavy amalgam of traditional Japanese bon dance rhythms, dub, electronics and jazz, with the inimitable voice of singer Kamura binding it all together into a heady package, which boomkat described thus : "At times you could almost be forgiven for thinking that Setsubun Bean Unit was a lost progressive jazz LP from the 70s, probably affiliated with Sun Ra or his galactic cohorts, but then it's a little too weird even for that", high praise indeed!

"the oddest pleasure you'll experience all year." [The Independent]

"some of the most unclassifiable and exhilarating contemporary music you've ever heard." [FROOTS]

"endlessly surprising and enjoyable.....perversely catchy" [Howard Male, The Independent on Sunday]

"the sort of album that will keep revealing hidden treasures on every single subsequent listen" [Boomkat]

This stunning debut is available on Itunes and here

News: Oni Wa Soto Fuku Wa Uchi!

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:37:32 -0700

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.

www.myspace.com/setsubunbeanunit

Pre order you copy NOW

News: Sonar Showcase

Thu, 17 May 2007 17:24:03 -0700

Accidental are proud to announce that we will be presenting an artistic showcase at this year's esteemed Catalan festival, Sonar.

New signings The Invisible, Setsubun Bean Unit and Mica Levi & The Cluster will all be unveiling their aural treasures to the world on the afternoon of Thursday 14th June-come say hello
www.sonar.es

Gig: ACCIDENTAL SHOWCASE - Sonar by day Festival