Having recently completed their first UK tour and YET ANOTHER Japan tour, Nanbanjin returned to the quiet hills of Oita to prepare for their debut album release. Working with Afronaut Records and producer Jon Wilks, the threesome fashioned an angular, angry debut with plenty of bile and a good dose of melody.
Brit boys, Dai Evans and Eoin Jordan, joined forces with New Zealander, Mal Larking, to form Nanbanjin in 2003. Showing a voracious appetite for live performances, the band disintegrated countless Japanese live venues before turning their attentions on the UK in 2006. A highly acclaimed British tour was preceded by a headlining slot at Japan's Concert on the Rock festival.
Debut album On Your Way marks this band out as definite contenders in the years to come.
"Cut Flowers were in the middle of rehearsing a new album when we decided to stop working together. It's sad, but it's common for amateur bands who don't get paid anything to make music. I wrote most of the songs for the new album, and following a conversation with my good friend Sakura San, I decided to record a
mini album featuring some of my favourite songs.
I finished the record over two days last week, although one song I'm saving for the next release! So here's some information for you. The album is called Jon WIlks and The Grizzly Folk, and the songs are, "Let's Have You", "Faith in the Family", "Before I'm Dead and Gone" and "Keep On Keeping On". The last one was written with my friend from junior high school, Rich Lines. He also wrote the lyrics for "When We Are Famous" by Cut Flowers.The guy's a genius! You can buy the songs from the Afronaut Collection on the right side of this page.
Cut Flowers are finished! Due to clashing schedules and busy personal lives, the band have decided to call it quits. It's been two fun years, and we're proud of our album and our little record company - which will still continue, by the way. In the meantime, you can buy everything we released from the store on the right of this page, or from Monstar (for our Japanese customers). We'll play a Farewell Live on July 1st at Early Believers in Tenjin. We hope to see you there.
