YAMAGATA
Yamagata is a Memphis based groove fusion band
consisting of high energy guitars and soft melodic horns that wax and wane
around intricate rhythmic fireworks. Yamagata has been together for
three years with one studio album, "Eveland" which builds a perfect
bridge for the ear to learn and know the songs that are played to psychedelic
explosiveness on stage. Yamagata pulls from a wide range of influences
giving it's sound the ability to morph like a musical amoeba from show to show
absorbing guest musicians and local influences into a down-home sound that
comes straight from the heart. Yamagata will leave you breathless.
--"The Bluff City's answer to Medeski,
Martin, and Wood" --Mountain
Xpress--North Carolina
--"Yamagata put forth an instrumental barrage filled with a roller
coaster ride of dynamics, and took what started as a small semi-interested
bunch to a crowd cheering their lungs out and hanging on to each
note." --Memphis Dateline--
--"...the music in some manners eludes categorization within the jazz,
rock, or funk idioms, because at times it is only one, or all three
simultaneously." --Jambands.com--
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Official Yamagata web site.
