Emergency!

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Japanese experimental quartet featuring Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Otomo Yoshihide, Ryoichi Saito, and Hiroaki Mizutani, known for reworking standards with post-bop drive, psychedelic swing, and noise.

Members cited: Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Otomo Yoshihide, Ryoichi Saito, Hiroaki Mizutani. Album Loveman Prays for Psychical Sing is a covers record including Charles Mingus’s “Better Git Hit in Your Soul”, Burt Bacharach’s “I Say a Little Prayer”, and the Beatles’ “Good Night”. Style references include post-bop, psychedelic swing, and noise elements.

A single, ecstatic review hails Emergency!’s Loveman Prays for Psychical Sing as a masterpiece. The quartet—featuring Yoshigaki, Yoshihide, Saito, and Mizutani—tears through covers of Mingus, Bacharach, and the Beatles. Guitars blaze between post-bop interplay, psychedelic swing, and noise. Irreverent, inventive, and steeped in Japanese modern music.