Omoide Hatoba

The Japanese group the Boredoms -- who meld punk/hardcore frenzy, the cosmic free-form of Sun Ra's Arkestra and downright silliness -- was founded on the principle that the individual members would never be restricted to one band. Guitarist Yamamoto Seiichi, who joined the Boredoms in 1986, has embraced this notion to a dizzying degree, having been involved in as many as nine projects at once. (As a parallel to his music career, Yamamoto has long been running the Osaka, Japan club Bears, which is sort of Osaka's version of CBGB.) Omoide Hatoba is one such non-Boredoms venture,...