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Pecombo (aka ペコンボ, Japanese), is a world scat chorus group, consisting of three females and two males. They started at 2002. Their music is based on Brazilian, jazz, European movies music, Latin, Caribbean, Afro and Asia. They sing using Japanese and "KATAKANA scat", without musical border, as people living in Tokyo in 21st century. Pecombo's music sounds cheerful, chic and happy.
They mainly perform in Tokyo and join with Japanese famous producers (Towa Tei, Tatsuo Sunaga, Comoesta Yaegashi, Takeshi Nakatsuka).
Sites: Discogs, YouTube and http://Pecombo.Jp/JPN/welcome.html .
The band got together in 1996 with the objective of playing desperate Ultra Rare Garage Rockabilly. They have retained this distinctive sound ever since.
They have recorded four albums - 'Jungle Fever', 'Hot Rod Doll', 'Ready To Go' and 'Rumble In The Jungle' - making a name for themselves in Scandinavia, Germany, Holland and USA.
The albums 'Hot Rod Doll', 'Ready To Go' and 'Rumble In The Jungle' was produced at Enviken Records in Stockholm by Patrick with whom the band has a brilliant working relationship. .
The No WTO Combo was a short-lived punk rock band started by Jello Biafra, formerly of the Dead Kennedys. The band consisted of Biafra; Kim Thayil of Soundgarden; and the rhythm section of Sweet 75, Gina Mainwal and Krist Novoselic (former Nirvana bassist).
They were originally scheduled to play the Showbox November 30, the night before the WTO meeting of 1999 in Seattle, but the performance was canceled because the venue's staff could not get past the police "curfew zone".
They rescheduled the show for the next night, December 1st, but Biafra and Novaselic played a short acoustic set that...