Korekyojinn
Members. Drummer Tatsuya Yoshida, owner of the Magaibutsu label, has founded the band Ruins and has been active in several other bands and collaborations, e.g. Kōenjihyakkei and Daimonji. Bassist Mitsuro Nasuno was a member of the noise/improvisation bands Ground Zero and Altered States and has been a member of Daimonji; guitarist Natsuki Kido has been a member of the zeuhl band Bondage Fruit. Music. Korekyojinn plays instrumental music composed by Yoshida Tatsuya. The band web page describes it as ""Progressive Jazz Rock Polyrhythmique"" – ""where progressive rock and contemporary jazz collide into a breathtaking, futuristic, hard rock funk"". Reception . Allmusic reviewers have awarded the first album "Korekyojin" (1999) with 3.5/5 and the third album "Isotope" (2005) with 4/5 stars, while Sean Westergaard states in his unrated Allmusic review of "Tundra" (2011): ""Tundra" is a great album by a great band". Pitchfork Media's Dominique Leone reviewed the second album "Arabesque" (2004) with a rating of 8/10. The German progressive rock review website Babyblaue Seiten rated "Korekyojin" and "Arabesque" with 11/15 and "Isotope" with 13/15.