Tengooz Radio and TenGooz playlists online!

The Online music site Jamendo has a TenGooz radio which seems to change everyday, mixing up the song order and also mixing in other bands which have been deemed to be similar.

You can find TenGooz Radio here:

http://www.jamendo.com/en/radio/the.tengooz

There are also plenty of online playlists which make listening to TenGooz easier than ever. Here is one playlist that you might like:

http://www.jamendo.com/en/playlist/34195

Enjoy

You might also want to read about life in Japan. The Tengooz` Avi Landau posts his articles at Tsukublog:

http://blog.alientimes.org/2010/02/choco-loco-a-deeper-look-at-valentines-day-in-japan/

Keep grounded in GROOVE

More Tsukuba Snowscapes

A Rare Tsukuba Snowscape

This was the view from the Ice Palace yesterday morning! Read more
about it at:
http://blog.alientimes.org/2010/02/tsukubas-fleeting-snowscapes-revisited/

Xenophonia online

The legendary, multi-national Tsukuba-based band Xenophonia
had a major impact on the live music scene in Japan back in the early 2000`s.

With guitarist Ascelin FLASH Gordon from Melbourne Australia,
Tom Debor (bass), Erik Stanford (trombone), Joe Kern (drums) and Avi Landau ( vocals) of the US,
Kawakami Ryutaro ( sax) and Sagara Kenya (trombone) of Japan
and Ashish (tabla) from India. They proved that ORIGINAL music could be popular in Japan`s club scene.

Now literally every Japanese band is following their lead.

You can here some of the bands recordings ( all done at Avi Landau`s house, known affectionately as the Ice Palace)
on jamendo:

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/2425

Enjoy!

Kawakami Ryutaro,AviLandau and Tom Debor of Xenophonia in Tokyo

More praise for the Tengooz in cyberspace

Greetings Tengoophlies!
We hope that all goes well with you!
I has come to our attention that someone has written an online review
of our album G-Strings.
Read the piece here:

http://www.frostclick.com/wp/index.php/2009/12/30/the-tengooz-g-strings-a-jazzy-funky-bossa-play-of-strings/

and have a great day!

The TenGooz New Years Party

The with Finnish artist John McGregor

Thomas Mayers of The TenGooz putting final touches on a new recording

The TenGooz Bass Whiz on Utube

Hase G ( Nodoka Hasegawa) is one of the most exciting bassists you will see in Japan,
or anywhere else for that matter.
He has started to upload some of his fretboard wizardry on utube and you can begin right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJeznOiX1dE

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai-VnTeLgDk&feature=related

Enjoy!

and be on the look out for our next album, which will be online soon!

Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasasu from the tengooz !

The Tengooz wish you a happy and healthy year!
We should be
ready to release our next album this month, and weve got a lot more material that we are working on.

For alot more about how we spend New Year`s in Japan, read some of my articles on Tsukublog:

http://blog.alientimes.org/

Seasons Greetings from The TenGooz

Another year is coming to an end, and The TenGooz would like to wish all you, our faithful listeners around the world
a very happy and healthy new year!

Like many TenGoophiles you can add atmosphere to your holdays by playing the TenGooz song- Wish You. which some people feel is the best Christmas song to have come out of Japan.
You can hear it at:

http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/116594

Thomas is back with his family in England and Michael is at the family farm in Germany.
Still, Hase G and I will be up at the studio doing the final mixings for our upcoming album which will feature 10 tracks.

Merry Chrismas

Avi and THe TenGooz

A Visit to Chikusei City ( formerly Shimodate) brings back memories of our old song

Everything passe. Everything changes. In Japan , over the last few years, as a part of a general
RESTRUCTURING, many PLACE NAMES have even been changed. This is quite frustrating, as it took me a while to master the KANJI of all of the local
towns and cities, and when I finally did, they went ahead and changed them all!
Anyway, the other day I found myself in Chikusei City, which used to be Shimodate ( 下館), which was the subject of a song, of the same title, written by Tom Debor,
Ascelin Gordon, and myself ( Avi Landau), when we still Xenophonia, the ancestor of the TenGooz.

You see, Tom used to live way out in Shimodate, and this song was conceived by him during the long drive back home. Tom, in fact, wrote the lyrics and the music to the A pattern of the song, while Ascelin and I created the rest.

We recorded the song in the tatami room of my house in Konda, with Ryutaro Kawakami on the sax.

Have a listen here

http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/17115

with Julien and Go

Julien Assali in Tsukuba before Tengooz practice

Jamming with Julien

TenGooz Memories: Melbourne Australia 2006

Hase G and A-chan of The TenGooz working on new song

Works On Paper- Thomas` Latest Exhibition, Opened Today!

Tengoophiles are naturally familiar with (and LOVE) Thomas Mayers` work on the guitar.
For a more complete understanding of Thomas the artist and the man, you had best have a good look at his latest
paintings, now on exhibit in Ushiku ( through Oct. 11). I have written more about it all at tsukblog:

http://blog.alientimes.org/2009/09/works-on-paper/

Tengooz fans (or anyone else), shouldnt miss it!

Thomas Mayers Shows His New Works