MAUDIE featuring Shingo Matsuda
Tokyo, Tōkyō, Japan | INDIE
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Discography
Monster Smokestacks (2004)
southside/SSBC-016 :includes 7 songs.
Better Than A Fantasy (2008)ENSAIMADAS/airplane/APEM-1003 :includes 8 songs(+1)
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Bio
Originally the blues band MAUDIE where from around 1998 starts with some jam sessions opportunity. In the earlier days, focusing on the orthodox Chicago blues, group continues live activity around Tokyo, reaches the point where gradually also original songs adopted. Approximately, the retirement of the member followed one after another within 3 years. Around spring 2002, became the one person after all, but already by this time, attaching the holder harmonica to the acoustic guitar, because with the style which the man Shingo Matsuda had to sing it, determining that it keeps being active as "one man unit" this way. Also because the band name which the former bass player named has been greatly loved, he decided to continue the name. Also width of activity spreads conversely by the fact that it has become solo, reaches the point where, the stage approximately annual 50 such as blues bar and oden house and field events is handled. Around summer 2003, once existed in Adachi -Ward Tokyo where he resides, the legendary "ghost chimneys of Senju" (demolished in 1964) was designated as motif, "Monster Smokestacks" becoming a topic. Where also the voice which demands CD conversion rises, he got offered directly with Southside Records which has interchange from the time before. Even if following summer?@2004, the drummer Yoshiki Yamazaki of ROLLER COASTER, Takeshi Kohase of THE JERRY ROLL on bass, and the producer as well, with those people do all the tunes in almost one day actually. The debut album "MONSTER SMOKESTACKS" which release was done in winter of that year. And these three following years brought him some different direction, such as country, pop-punk, and some other mixture style of music. Also activities have been open much wider during this, enough to decide himself to make the new material. Then he recorded 8 songs(+1) at STUDIO NEST in Chiba, in the summer of 2007.?@Six months later he signed with AIRPLANE LABEL, and there came a long awaited second album "BETTER THAN A FANTASY" in spring 2008, which was the very first release from?eENSAIMADAS', a new division of their company. This one has the high energy sounds enough to step further up from the former acoustical style, also enough to make everyone excited. Performed with the bass player Ken Iwagami from WHISPER WHISPER, the drummer Bakuhatsuya formerly of THE 8cc, JACK BLUE, and also with Ken?fs brother?@Naoki Change Shuri, bringing programmed sounds and a screaming voice.
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