Guitar Player REACTS to NINGEN ISU - Namahage (人間椅子なまはげ | Reaction and Analysis
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- Kudos to these musicians. Let's take a listen to Ningen Isu's "Namahage" together :)
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I love that, after so long fighting their dream, Ningen Isu they are now getting the recognition they deserve. They are an excellent band.
Couldn't have said it better. So happy for them
After 'only' 29 to 30 years.
@@autohmae Don't give up!!!
@@JuanSan66 they had good size shows in Japan. It's not common for Japanese bands to have international break throughs so it's great they were able to do so.
@@JuanSan66 Never!
They are influenced by Black Sabbath and King Crimson, but Wajima's slide playing technique of the guitar comes from the technique of shamisen, you know the instrument by songs of Wagakki Band. Ningen Isu is the band of Aomori prefecture, known as one of the center of shamisen playing in Japan.
Thanks for the info!
I did suspect he had some shamisen technique in his sleeve.
@@bobrezendeassis I mean that it might be inspired from the playing method of Tsugaru Shamisen, not from any guitar playing methods. They sometimes also uses melodies and scales from that genre of shamisen music.
They are fun guys. They even have reaction videos of their own material. Most of there material is catagorized as "Doom metal"
Makes sense, a bit more in the Black Sabbath direction than on the Candlemass one though I feel
Back to Ningen Isu!! Namahage is kinda second popular song to react to, but it's indeed a great song to react to. Love the band, it's amazing that they can still be together and active for so long, and it's so nice that they get the recognition they so rightfully deserve now.
Thanks for the reaction GG. Cheers!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
It really is, extremely happy for them 🤘🏻
i think he is ready for The Mountains Of Madness live :p
😂 im laughing, its a deep dive choosing the Mountains of Madness its a super composition, for me its a yes, its like Horror/Doom themed King Crimson type of shit(good stuff PROG). but Love Nirvana is good as well
@@onetymebigtyme Finally someone who understands this journey.
After reading a little lovecraft, that goes way a few more floors deeper under the earth than I would have thought ^^
I LOVE King Crimson, now I'm extremely curious
This band is fantastic! My last live concert before Covid Lockdown. :(
They really are great 🤘🏻
Were you in the UK or Germany ? or maybe Japan ?
@@autohmae Bochum, Germany 2020/2/20 - historical day :)
They have been playing METAL music so long time🥁🎸
I'm glad…🤘😎🤘
Huge kudos to them 🤘🏻
They are masters!!! Love them!
Great comments! Please check more!
See you!
Thanks Yamada, fantastic band!
There used to be 2 videos on UA-cam, unfortunately there down now and the only way to see them is a a few reactor channels. But it's a video Shinji the guitarist and Kanami on a kids show. They were had speakers under a price of plexyglass and little paper figures. They were having a battle to try and knock over the figures by playing. Even though it was supposed to be competitive you can tell they were just having fun and respected each so much. Maybe this is a cultural thing but just seems like everyone in the Japanese metal and rock scene are so good about checking their egos at the door for the most part.
I've seen those! They were sent to me on Instagram I think, or maybe there's a link somewhere on the comment section in the Heartless Scat reaction
Recently, the reactions of NINGEN ISU have almost decreased, so I am very glad you did it. Heartless Scat is the most popular, but there are quite a few people who prefer this song. They are a really rare rock band who have loved British hard rocks and progressive rocks since their debut, and have created their own expressions by incorporating Japanese things into them. Since the 2000's, Japanese music has been exported to other Asian countries, and it seems that the music, that is conscious of Japanese elements, has been created. But before that, I think there were almost no rock bands in Japan doing such like this. I think because they were longing for western rock music, so it was the first important for them to imitate western music. Even from such period, they have been active in music for about 30 years since the 1980s. I love NINGEN ISU. Please react to them more. Thank you from Japan.
Such a great band, glad you enjoyed!
Thank you so much for this GG. I love this band so much. Great human beings and so talented and humble. Each album is brilliant. And that since 32 years!
They really are fantastic, so happy they finally got recognition
I have no words for this band.....Super DOOM METAL from Japan,imazing..
Amazing band 🤘🏻
Alot of their older albums will be tough to get a hold on for a good price. But their newest album Shin Seinen is great, otherwise I would just suggest their 30th Anniversary and 25th Anniversary best of compilations.
Probably the best place to start, thanks!
Love this song, really sets a mood.
The drummer is the youngest member (the original member was only one ever that left), the current drummer has 'only' been a member for 15 years. ;-)
15 years, such a newbie 😂
don´t judge a book by it´s cover. these guys totally rock.
Absolutely, fantastic band
Their songs are like stories with different chapters and feels....
Wonderful band 🤘🏻
Nice reaction!
I love their sounds inspired by 60's psych rock and early 70's hard rock.
Quality reaction to a quality band! Thanks!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed!
OMG this song is so good. Cheers!
They're an amazing bunch 🤘🏻
Love these guys! Latest album is so great
No doubts about that, I'll try to get my hands on that soon ;)
Bought their 30 anniversary CD.. got a "towel" and their guitarpick with it! Next song with N I: Life for sale or Colour of Space!
Nice! What a band 🤘🏻
@@akaalexanderking They are on Spotify You know... perfect when You work! hmmm still waiting for Galneryus /Angel of Salvation (live) Versailles / Faith and Decision (live) and have to ad a new band I found. Gyze / Oriental Symphony. *-) Haven't seen these been blocked so I think You don't have to pause them.... and well discovered a African Metal Band.. Arka'n /Tears of the Dead Just sayin'.... *-)
Nice! We still need to explore African countries. And I'm on the others 😁
I wish you could understand Japanese. Their lyrics are awesome. They feature literature, myths, religions and so on. They seem to be quite highly educated👍
I wish as well 😅
it is as the 70`s never ended!
🤘🏻🤘🏻
Love Nirvana..... another song from them.... that's a banger....
Noted ;)
The extra instrument might be a theremin, they used it in other songs and also on stage before. Although it could also be a guitar. The guitarist makes a lot of his own pedals to get all kinds of sounds.
There is a subtitled video of him explaining his setup, if you're interested: ua-cam.com/video/CVYORMwCzMs/v-deo.html
Recommending albums is a bit tricky, they went through different phases over the years.
Lately I've been going through their discography to get a better grip on them, so hopefully I'll be able to pick out a few that give an overview of the band. Will take a few days though.
Deeply appreciate that 🙏🏻
Love these AARP member musicians but this LIVE is even more wicked (ua-cam.com/video/rUvKusi05MA/v-deo.html) no need to review but for your own appreciation I am sure you will love it and the stage presence adds to the song. These guys have worked their butts off for decades to get to this point and they are still together, my friends marriages should of lasted this long (LOL). I love the Lovecraft vibe as it fits the Sabbath and late 70's metal sound. They are old school and in your face and totally unapologetic for it!!! If you play the same guitar as Angus Young you have to be good but all three of these musicians are fantastic and together they produce a sound long lost to metal fans unless you still have the old LPs collecting dust as I do.
Namahage is an interesting Japanese tradition. Demons visit people's houses around New Years, making eerie noises, looking for lazy children to scare. It's an unusual subject for a rock song.
I've been sent a video of that, very peculiar tradition
Some of the more recent Ningen Isu uploads to their UA-cam channel, has English translation via the closed caption button. Including this song, and "Heartless Scat". Just a heads-up there.
Their one song, "New Youth", has such a strong Black Sabbath influence.
Thanks Nigel 👍🏻
Love Nirvana is a real banger of a song from these guys. But there are soooo many great songs. Baptism is amazing, The Caterpillar is emotional, and Apple's Tear is a great song from their beginning.
Noted ;)
Honestly, I didn't get into Ningen Isu by listening to albums the whole way through, so I can't think of many that would work well for that. I'd check out their 30th anniversary 'best of' album, called this: 人間椅子名作選 三十周年記念ベスト盤, most of my favourites are off there.
Thanks! Will do :)
Please try Imomushi (The Caterpillar) next.. ua-cam.com/video/-vJEMwLH-kM/v-deo.html - there's no video but the music speaks for itself.. and frankly I like this live version even more than the album track: deepen.net/ningenisu_-_imomushi_live.mp3
Will do, thanks!
Check out react to "Ningen isu - At the mountain of madness (Live 2016)"
Noted ;)
Great song by a great band. By the way, Babymetal's song Catch Me If You Can is also about namahage (a type of oni or ogre or demon), specifically playing a hide-and-seek/tag with them.
I had no idea, thanks for the info :)
Please try On the Mountain of Madness by Ningen Isu, I think there is link on their official website. This song got amazing psychdelic guitar solo!
Will do, thanks!
Great music. Still have to get used to the voices. Sounds strange. Great musicians. Thank you for this reaction.
I wouldn't mind a full length instrumental record by these guys 😁
Hot electrifying
React to the caterpillar by them too
Noted, thanks :)
OK, since you asked for album recommendations, it's essay time 😅
First, pretty much all of their music is completely in Japanese and has Japanese names, so it might be a bit hard to navigate.
Luckily their English Wikipedia page has romaji and translations of the album and song titles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningen_Isu#Original_albums
If you want to find a particular album (e.g. on Spotify) and identifying the kanji is a bit hard, you can copy the Japanese names of the albums below and search for them.
If I were to simply recommend their best albums (without picking from their best of releases), I would simply pick the last few they released, because I prefer their newer music.
If you want to get a better overview of the band, I think you can sort of split their discography in 4 parts. So I'm going to pick one of each part 😄
Generally, I would say that they don't really have bad albums, so you can listen to any of them without being disappointed.
tl;dr these are the albums:
1995: 踊る一寸法師 (Odoru Issunboushi), Dancing One-Inch Preacher
1999: 二十世紀葬送曲 (Nijusseiki Sousoukyoku), Requiem For The 20th Century
2006: 瘋痴狂, Hoochie Koo
2013: 萬燈籠 (Mandoro), Ten Thousand Garden Lanterns
Here is why I picked those (with a very short and incomplete history of the band):
The first album is the trickiest to pick.
The band started with Shinji Wajima and Ken-ichi Suzuki who were friends since school. The band formed in 1987, when drummer Noriyoshi Kamidate joined them.
Early on, in 1989, they had a bit of luck and got on a sort of band competition TV show.
There was a label associated with that show which offered the band to record their self titled debut album/EP "人間椅子" (they call it their 0th album). Unfortunately that album is not available anywhere as far as I can tell.
That went OK and in 1990 they released their "first" album, "人間失格", under a different label which sold pretty well.
However, sales of their subsequent albums weren't great and they couldn't make a living with their music.
It was quite common for them to have to look for a new label after an album was released.
Similarly, drummers kept leaving them and there were several times where they didn't have either a drummer nor a label.
So the first 10 years after their debut were a bit chaotic and there isn't really any one album that represents that period.
The one I chose is:
1995 踊る一寸法師 (Odoru Issunboushi), Dancing One-Inch Preacher
This was the first album recorded with their second full time drummer, Iwao Tsuchiya.
It was also the first of several albums they produced themselves.
It's a bit of a mixed bag with different types of songs.
Some of the fans don't think too highly of it, but the band seems to like it and many of the songs on this album can still be found on their latest concert setlists.
It's probably not the best introduction to the band, but I can't think of a better one for that period.
1999 二十世紀葬送曲 (Nijusseiki Sousoukyoku), Requiem For The 20th Century
This is the second of 5 albums they recorded with drummer Masuhiro Goto as a proper member of the band (he worked with them as a substitute a few times before that).
At this point things became more stable and especially the last 4 albums with Goto were more consistent sound wise.
It's hard to pick between this and "怪人二十面相" which was released a year later.
2006 瘋痴狂, Hoochie Koo
This is the second album they recorded with their current drummer, Nobu Nakajima, who also sings.
They finally got permanently signed to a major label and there was no more changing drummers and labels after that.
While they still weren't successful enough for all of them to be full time musicians, things were going better.
After Nakajima joined and especially starting with this album, the chemistry of the band improved. They also matured as musicians and people.
Another interesting thing is that it was around this time that they adopted the look that they have now. Before that they went through several different stage outfits, some of which were quite weird.
On average I like everything they've done since this album better than the first half of their work (which is still pretty good of course).
2013 萬燈籠 (Mandoro), Ten Thousand Garden Lanterns
This album was released a few months after they played at Ozzfest Japan 2013.
Playing there was a big deal for them and a few years after that all of them were finally able to make a living with their music alone.
In a way it was another debut album for them and it also marks another slight change in their sound, they became a bit heavier.
It might actually be a good introductory album for someone who never heard of them, it has the perfect opening track.
Again, I think all of their latest albums are especially good. One that stands out is "怪談 そして死とエロス" from 2016, I was really tempted not to mention the first one and instead add this one to the list...
It turned out to be more than 2-3 recommendations, but that's how these things go 😁
Thank you. A LOT. 😍
More Japanese band please 🤗
That's definitely happening ;)
@@akaalexanderking In that case, may I suggest Asterism and their track 'Rising Moon'? When it was recorded I think the average age of the band was about... 17? Quite young at any rate. No vocalist, all instrumentals, and the bass player makes excellent use of his 7(!) string bass. The girl on guitar absolutely shreds, and the drummer, well that dude is equally up to the task set before him. I quite enjoyed your reaction to Namahage, you may also enjoy them performing 'At the Mountains of Madness'.
Hey dude, thanks for the great content!
I just caught up on your first reaction to Nightwish and you said that you loved long songs so I have a recommendation for you! If you don’t know the Japanese metal band DIR EN GREY yet, please check out their live performance of VINUSHKA: ua-cam.com/video/BVhAVHcu-r0/v-deo.html
Hopefully you’ll feel like reacting to more of their work~ I’ll gladly give you some more recommendations!
Keep up the great work, cheers from France!
I just discovered another french progressive death metal band called "Fractal universe". They have a new video out called "clockwork expectation" ua-cam.com/video/aBqQMCazAVw/v-deo.html. The style is really interesting. You should check it out GG.
I will for sure, thanks for the recommendation!
i love this band, but is hard to recomend songs because they are in japanese.
I can imagine Carlos, same thing happens with MTH. But I love them too by the looks of it 😁
Please react to Ningen Isu, Toshishun - ua-cam.com/video/m3Zy8eceZdU/v-deo.html&ab_channel=%E4%BA%BA%E9%96%93%E6%A4%85%E5%AD%90