N.O.I.S.E.

The duo Noise arose from the same circle of underground musicians around the Minor performance space in Tokyo that gave birth to Fushitsusha, High Rise, Gaseneta, Kosokuya, and less well-known Japanese groups exploring the tangents between avant-garde rock and improvisation. Noise was actually slightly less noisy than most of these other groups, though certainly just as experimental with their no-wave approach. The group was formed by Reiko Omaru in 1979, and after a few lineup changes and flirting with a more punk style, settled down to the duo of Tori Kudo on drums and org...