Tenniscoats - “Tan-Tan Therapy” (2007)

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

Треклист:
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]
9. Good Be