ROVO
Rovo is a Japanese instrumental psychedelic rock-jazz band founded in 1996 in Tokyo by former
Boredoms guitarist
Seiichi Yamamoto (
山本精一), electric violinist
Yuji Katsui (
勝井祐二), and synthesizer/effects technician
Tatsuki Masuko (
益子樹), with Jin Harada (原田仁) on bass guitar, Hiroshi Nakanishi (中西宏司) on synths, and featuring two drummers/percussionists, the prolific
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (
芳垣安洋) (of legendary improv noise group
Ground Zero) and Yoichi Okabe (
岡部洋一).
They describe themselves as "Man Drive Trance", due to their hands-on methods of creating a kind of music usually produced entirely electronically.
Listening to their Flage album right now, pretty killer.