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"2 young Japanese girls rock duo from Osaka JAPAN!
Naked rock!!!!! Naked soul!!! Red red strong red dress!! Freeeeeeeeedam
paradice rock! Jump! With improvisation.
Sooo fantastic & wild performance !
wowowowowowowowowwoooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are star like shine flash, Interesting funny and sexy cute.... so real. same of in the stages or every lifetime this is great thing I think.
PIKA write is "our's real music CuleCule stir japan Drop in River Nake. SOON OVER THERE STIRING. Every body Smile. Every body same. ONI also Supponpon(naked) brain rock sing and guitar ! So amazing. "SUPPONPON ROCK AFRIRAMPO ! "
sound man/ Bun
LOVE
NUDE MIND " - the profile from the Afrirampo home page
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"Afrirampo's music often featured call and response vocals, catchy distorted pop melodies, looping fret noise, droning feedback, guttural barks and impromptu squealing. Their early albums featured a sound that could be described as noise-punk, albeit with surprisingly melodic vocal melodies. Their later albums, especially Suuto Breakor and We Are Uchu No Ko, featured a much more expansive sound, sometimes with very long songs and quieter, more ethereal passages. There was also an African influence that derived in part from a 2004 stay with pygmy tribes in Cameroon, Africa, documented on their 2006 album Baka Ga Kita. The band's later albums featured noticeable elements of African music, with a tribal percussive sound and call-and-response vocals." - Wikipedia
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"Wild, crazy and highly entertaining Afrirampo have quickly made an impact in Japan and abroad. The young female duo hails from Osaka, a city known for its lack of restraint and hearty sense of humor. Afrirampo indeed have been described as filling "a long-standing idiot savant gap on the Osaka underground scene". Guitarist/ vocalist Oni and drummer/vocalist Pika (sometimes listed as Pikacyu) first teamed up in May of 2002, when they were both still teenagers. They first played together during a loose jam held in a park near Osaka Castle, which mostly involved drumming and dancing. Today they perform dressed in red, which theoretically enhances their senses, and with their faces heavily made-up. Even though the musical training is, in their words "for small", they manage to drag all sorts of sounds out of their instruments and do so with boundless energy. Somehow they manage to be both cute and barbaric at the same time. Afrirampo it seems largely improvise their performances, often very noisily, giving their steadily growing audience the impression that anything may happen next." - Nippop
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"Hailing from the western Japanese city of Osaka, Afrirampo are often considered representative of their hometown's manic, freewheeling approach to rock music, following on from bands like Boredoms and Acid Mothers Temple. The two female members, known only as Oni and Pikachu, formed the group in 2002 and quickly made a name for themselves among fans of lo-fi experimental rock with their combination of free-form garage punk and nonsensical call-and-response vocal utterances, and have collaborated with such luminaries of Japanese underground and noise music as Keiji Haino and Yoko Ono." - Allmusic.com
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artist: Afrirampo
title: Afrirampo
type: ep
label: Gyuune Cassette
release date: 2004
length: 22:09
genre: psychedelic/noise rock/experimental
country: Japan
language: Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: 192kbps
codec: lame 3.92
credits:
Pika - drums, vocals
Oni - guitar, vocals
Produced by Keizo Suhara.
tracklist:
1. ドドドド
2. オニピカ○ハート
3. ケッコー
4. あふりらんぽ
5. 雪景色
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artist: Afrirampo
title: A
type: album
label: none
release date: 2004
length: 36:13
genre: psychedelic/noise rock/experimental
country: Japan
language: Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (192-254kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.98
tracklist:
1. うちらをKOさせてみろ
2. あふりらんぽ
3. オニピカ★ハート
4. ドドドド
5. 可愛いワタシ
6. あかんこのまま返さない
7. 夏が来た
8. 雪景色
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artist: Afrirampo
title: A'
type: album
label: Acid Mothers Temple
release date: 2004
length: 38:36
genre: psychedelic/noise rock/experimental
country: Japan
language: Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (209-239kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.98
credits:
Pika - drums, vocals
Oni - guitar, vocals
Produced by Kawabata Makoto.
tracklist:
1. あふりらんぽのおとをきけ
2. ドドドド
3. オニピカハート
4. 愛してる
5. あかんここままかえさない
6. 父母
7. あふりらんぽ
8. 雪景色
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artist: Afrirampo
title: Urusa In Japan
type: album
label: Ki/oon Records
release date: 2005
length: 37:05
genre: psychedelic/noise rock/experimental
country: Japan
language: Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (202-262kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.98
credits:
Pika - drums, vocals
Oni - guitar, vocals
tracklist:
1. ドドドド
2. あかんこのまま帰さない
3. オニピカハート
4. ちょととまてくださいよ！！
5. アートブレーコー
6. Haritateno Gen Did Cut!
7. 生意気うさぎ
8. サンダー
9. In The Space Night
10. せーの
11. Cava
12. テレパシー
13. あふりらんぽ
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artist: Afrirampo
title: Kore Ga Mayaku Da
type: album
label: Tzadik
release date: 2005
length: 50:12
genre: psychedelic/noise rock/experimental
country: Japan/US
language: Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (255-282kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.98
credits:
Pika - drums, vocals
Oni - guitar, vocals
Produced by John Zorn & Kazunori Sugiyama.
tracklist:
1. I Did Are
2. ○
3. Kairaku Do Re Mi
4. Want You
5. I Am Bird
6. Pekkopa In Brooklyn
7. Nakimushikemushi Good Bye!
8. Kui! Kui!
9. On Ska To Paar Ya
10. Hadaka
11. Matane ♂
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artist: Acid Mothers Afrirampo
title: We Are Acid Mothers Afrirampo
type: album
label: Acid Mothers Temple
release date: 2005
length: 56:21
genre: psychedelic/noise rock/experimental
country: Japan
language: Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: 320kbps
codec: lame 3.98
credits:
Kawabata Makoto - electric guitar, violin, hurdy gurdy, glockenspiel, percussion, electronics, voice
Higashi Hiroshi - electronics
Tsuyama Atsushi - voice, bass, drums, digital guitar, acoustic guitar, soprano recorder, kantele
Pika - voice, drums, percussion, toy, balloon
Oni - voice, electric guitar, drums, soprano recorder, digital guitar
Produced by Kawabata Makoto.
tracklist:
1. We're Acid Mothers Afrirampo!
2. The Exorcist of Love
3. The Man From The Magic Mountain
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artist: Afrirampo
title: Baka Ga Kita!
type: album
label: Moonlight Records
release date: 2006
length: 72:06
genre: ethnic/a cappella/field recording
country: Japan/Cameroon
language: Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (204-253kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.98
This album was recorded during a three-month period Pika and Oni lived among a pygmy tribe in Cameroon in 2004.
credits:
Pika - drums, vocals
Oni - guitar, vocals
The Baka Forest People - vocals
tracklist:
1. 虫唄
2. ヨウセイの歌
3. コドモのうた
4. バカが来た はじめまして！
5. オニピカ すっっぽんぽん
6. 周・ゴリラ・チンパンジー
7. 教えて！ラコーントゥ
8. マンゴーダンス
9. Water Drum
10. アビシモ君のギター
11. ボマウォーーー！！
12. あふりらんぽウォーーー！！！
13. Bakaはクサイ！？
14. 男達 森リバーブ
15. オトコタチトランス
16. オトコタチトランス
17. オトコタチトランス
18. おっちゃんの演説（御葬式にて）
19. オンナタチの唄
20. 虫ノイズ
21. アフリカの大地
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artist: The Hospitals/Afrirampo
title: The Hospitals/Afrirampo split
type: 7" single
label: Not Not Fun Records
release date: 2006
length: 5:52
genre: psychedelic/noise rock/experimental
country: US/Japan
language: English/Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: 128kbps/vbr
tracklist:
A. The Hospitals - Sick Bird
B. Afrirampo - Sore Ga... Guru Guru Guru...
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artist: Afrirampo
title: Suuto Breakor
type: album
label: P-Vine Records
release date: 2007
length: 41:56
genre: psychedelic/noise rock/experimental
country: Japan
language: Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: 192kbps
codec: lame 4.0
credits:
Pika - drums, vocals
Oni - guitar, vocals
tracklist:
1. untitled
2. untitled
3. untitled
4. untitled
5. untitled
6. untitled
7. untitled
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artist: Afrirampo
title: We Are Uchu No Ko
type: album
label: Supponpon Record
release date: 2010
length: 82:49
genre: psychedelic/noise rock/experimental
country: Japan
language: Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (196-272kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.98
credits:
Pika - drums, vocals
Oni - guitar, vocals
tracklist disc 1:
1. ミラクルラッキーガールズ
2. そらがあふりらんぽ
3. 東西南北
4. 海
5. エゴロ島
6. ワイトゥ
7. ヤーヤーエー
tracklist disc 2:
1. サンウェーブダンス
2. 星の唄 ~Pika☆universe~ (Part 1)
3. 星の唄 ~Pika☆universe~ (Part 2)
4. 星の唄 ~Pika☆universe~ (Part 3)
5. 星の唄 ~Pika☆universe~ (Part 4)
6. 星の唄 ~Pika☆universe~ (Part 5)
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LIVE RECORDINGS:
location: WFMU, New Jersey
date: September 6, 2004
length: 47:17
bitrate: 256kbps
location: WFMU, New Jersey
date: July 19, 2005
length: 36:32
bitrate: 256kbps
location: Tokuzo, Nagoya
date: December 11, 2004
length: 84:55
bitrate: vbr (246-268kbps avg)
location: Ladyfest, Brighton
date: October 22, 2005
length: 34:38
bitrate: vbr (124kbps avg)
location: SuperDeluxe, Roppongi, Tokyo
date: August 9, 2008
length: 47:47
bitrate: vbr (227-241kbps avg)