Vehiyd – 月蝕 [CS]

"月蝕 - lunar eclipse. The title is apt for a cassette that arrived in 1991, was heard by almost no one, and vanished almost entirely from the record. Vehiyd was a four-member noise and psychedelic band comprising 博子 on bass, 真由美 on drums, 界 on guitar, and Piaa on vocals - and this Vanilla Records cassette, single-sided and numbered in the label's characteristic manner, is the only recorded document the group left behind.

The genre tags - noise, psychedelic rock - suggest a project that occupied the space between the outright sonic extremism of the Vanilla core and something more rooted in band dynamics, in the physical energy of drums and guitar and a human voice pushed into abstraction. Four people in a room, producing something that sat somewhat apart from the prevailing currents, which is perhaps why it has remained so thoroughly in the dark. A cassette for those who find more in the margins than in the center."

Vanilla Records, 1991