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Infobox musical artist | name = The Gerogerigegege| caption =| image_size = | background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Shinjuku, Tokyo|Shinjuku , Tokyo , Japan | genre = Experimental music|Experimental , Noise music , Punk rock|Punk , Musique concrète , Performance art , Noisegrind , Noise punk , Noise rock , Grindcore , Industrial music , Harsh noise , Noisecore , Power noise (later)| years_active = 1985–Early 2000s| label =| associated_acts =| website =| current_members = Juntaro Yamanouchi| past_members = Tetsuya Endoh (Gero 30) Toshinori Fukuda Hironao Komaki The Gerogerigegege (lang-ja|?·???????, IPA-ja|za ge?o ge?i gegege|pron) is a music project created in 1985 in Shinjuku, Tokyo|Shinjuku , Tokyo by Juntaro Yamanouchi (nihongo2|??????), who runs and maintains the Vis a Vis record label in Japan .
Biography
Though they are often categorized with Japanoise|Japanese harsh noise acts such as Merzbow and Masonna , The Gerogerigegege has also released albums of more straightforward rock and roll|rock ( Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male ), noise ( 45 RPM Performance ), and ambient music ( None Friendly , Endless Humiliation ), in addition to several Extended play|seven inch records mixing these styles with found recordings. The group is best known for their 1990 album Tokyo Anal Dynamite . This album consists of 75 songs, which serve as a fusion of the Ramones ' punk jams (replete with Juntaro yelling "1 2 3 4!!" over and over) and John Zorn 's frantic Naked City (band)|Naked City project.
Over the years, The Gerogerigegege has included many members, the most notable and consistent other than Yamanouchi being Gero 30 (also known as Gero 56, real name Tetsuya Endoh ), an exhibitionism|exhibitionist known to masturbation|masturbate onstage during live performances. Masturbation is called "senzuri" (???; lit. "a thousand rubs") in Japan and it has become the group's trademark. Yamanouchi met Gero 30 at an sadomasochism|S& M club in 1986. Other members have included Toshinori "Dynamite Gero" Fukuda on drums, Hironao "Dee Dee Gero" Komaki on guitar, Junko "Gero Grace Seijoh" Katoh, their live manager, and Masatoshi "Gero Route 66" Katsuya, the band's driver. Yamanouchi is a homosexual and a crossdresser , which is not unusual in the world of Japan ese experimental music. His mother is a famous classical pianist.
The Gerogerigegege is known for their releasing extremely limited edition records such as 1989's ?? ( Showa ), which bookended a recording of people having sex with " Kimi ga Yo ", the Japanese national anthem (the sleeve was a picture of the Ramones with nothing mentioning The Gerogerigegege at all), and the Night EP , which features what seems to be a recording of a man defecation|defecating into a toilet after the usual "1 2 3 4!!" count. The album Recollections of Primary Masturbation contains 338 songs, including the entire Tokyo Anal Dynamite album as one track and ten minutes (spread over two tracks) containing 223 previously unreleased songs. There are also some non-musical conceptual releases, including This Is Shaking Box Music part 2 , which is a destroyed cassette copy of the Mother Fellatio EP. Another, "Art is over" consists of a single octopus tentacle housed in a cassette box. These non-music releases were typically released in even smaller quantities than the actual music releases, in quantities of 50 or less. Similar inane concepts are rampant throughout the band's catalogue, and often, the more ridiculous the theme or packaging of a release is, the more sought after it is by collectors. Copies of some Gerogerigegege records go for hundreds of dollars.
Gerogerigegege have been inactive since the unexplained disappearance of frontman Juntaro Yamanouchi. He is rumored to be dead, institutionalized or simply unwilling to acknowledge the project anymore. It is also said that his brother died in a car accident and he got very depressed and eventually became mentally ill.
Gay Sex Can Be Aids (split with Origami Erotika ) (1996)
Seven Inches of Meat (split with Origami Erotika ) (1996)
"Ramones" (split with Bastard Noise ) (1996)
???? ( Yasukuni Jinja ) (1996)
ETERNAL ENERGY (split with Psyalpinx ) (1997)
HGI (~1998)
Early Dream Exit (2000)
Live in USA (split with Crowd Surfers Must Die ) (2001)
References
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External links
http://www.artnotart.com/gero/ Gerogerigegege: 56k Performance site
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Gerogerigegege,+The The Gerogerigegege @ Discogs
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages? artist=Gerogerigegege%2C+The Pictures of The Gerogerigegege at discogs.com
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