Tenniscoats - Tan-Tan Therapy

Track listing: 1. Baibaba Bimba 2. Oetsu to Kanki no Nanoriuta (Given Song by Sob and Joy) 3. Marui Hito (Everyone) 4. One Swan Swim 5.
Umbarepa! 6. Abi and Travel 7. Rolling Train 8. Uta ga Nainoni (Like No Songs)
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To live music. It's an expression one probably has heard some time, but never has it been more appropriate than to describe the lives of married couple
Saya and Takashi Ueno, also known as Tenniscoats. We in Tape have known them for almost two years now, and we have time and time again been
astonished by how many hours they spend on music in a day. New songs are written in the tour bus, new songs are rehearsed for the evening's
concert at the soundcheck and later, after the concert, they literally play and sing themselves to sleep. They catch some sleep here and there, and
wake up to musical work again with coffee and cigarettes as the only fuel… A wild pace and a flow of musical expressions that have been
tremendously inspiring to take part of. Their starting point is pop songs, but with a staggeringly free approach: psychedelic folk tunes, complex
instrumentals and short pop jewels side by side, everything is possible. A song can be performed in a myriad ways. Their interplay is angular and at the
same time the most sensitive one has heard. A feeling of a music that constantly goes on, whether Saya and Ueno are on stage or not. A music free of
pretensions, but urgent as few things I have heard. - Johan Berthling, Tape
Tan-Tan Therapy is a distillate of the last two years, when Tenniscoats and Tape have socialised, toured together and exchanged musical ideas and
experiences. The album gives a slightly new picture of Tenniscoats. Found here is a fuller dynamic spectra and richer use of diverse sound elements
than usually found in their live shows. Yet the album has a concise pop feeling to it, in a calm and multi-faceted way. The level of details and the
different sound world is to a large extent due to the musicians of Tape, as they have been involved both in the production and the writing of
arrangements on the record. To Tenniscoats' original setting, various horn instruments, double bass, zither, organ, glockenspiel and electronic
instruments have been added. The recordings were made in an intuitive way during a couple of days in Stockholm and Cologne with Tape (Andreas
Berthling, Johan Berthling, Tomas Hallonsten), Andreas Söderström, Leo Svensson and Lars Skoglund and fellow musicians. Saya and Ueno are also
members of the Japanese music collective Maher Shalal Hash Baz. They live outside of Tokyo.

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