April 15, 2010
Plastic Soul Band
members:
Kenji “KNG” Okada (guitar)
Kyoko Okada (vocal)
Daisuke Joe Motohashi (drums)
“Hamber” Yamazaki (saxophone)
Mariko Sekine (keyboards)
Koji Ichikawa (bass)
Influenced by Soul, R&B, Rock, Jazz and Reggae — Plastic Soul Band is rhythm and blues personified. Enhanced by the band’s vocal harmonies the sultry vocals of front woman Kyoko, Plastic Soul Band’s rockin’ soul sound is both warm and sensual.
The band was formed in Kichijoji, Tokyo in 2002. Plastic Soul Band won the “Kichijoji Music Festival’s Audience Award” with overwhelming support from the audience in 2003, releasing their first album Plastic Soul Band in 2005. On December 2, 2006, their second album Wonderful Life was released.
“This album, Wonderful Life, is more colorful than the first one. It contains as many genres as there are songs. Not only KNG and Kyoko, but also the keyboard player Mariko, and the bassist Koji, wrote their songs and added their personal touch to this album…. The saxophone player, Hamber, recorded all the saxophone parts: alto, tenor and baritone, and mixed them altogether to give an orchestra-like sound. The guitarist, KNG, played a tribute to George Harrison’s style… You can hear Indian instrument sounds made by back-masking technique,” quoting the band.
Before launch, the album Wonderful Life had already received podcasters’ attention (playing the pre-release tunes), the band’s universal sound gained world popularity among podcasters in Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Germany, UK and USA, to just to name a few. On March 3, 2010, Plastic Soul Band released their third album Magical Graffiti.
Know as a fan’s band. Plastic Soul Band not only rocks their live performances in Tokyo, but are known to make friends out of each audience – sincerely working the crowd both during and after the show.
