Kemuri

Japanese ska-punkers Kemuri came together during the summer of 1995. Charismatic singer Fumio Ito planned to travel to the U.S. in October and decided to assemble a band and put together a demo, so that he could try to land a recording contract in the States while the group remained in Japan. Ito's friend Tsuda was the first to sign up on bass, followed by guitarist Yukihiko "T" Tanaka, trombonist Yuji Shimoda, and Shoji Hiraya on drums. Bringing a couple hundred copies of the demo with him on his Stateside trip, Ito made the rounds to all the record companies, and made severa...