Afrirampo, the Japanese rock duo (Pica on drums and Oni on guitar) that favors eating while singing (singing while eating?), slipped away from their Pygmy captors and popped into WFMU to perform live on Brian Turner's show. Click to listen to their playful set in Real Audio or streaming MP3.
This video clip (avi, 39MB) shows Afrirampo performing in the WFMU studios, as Meg and Jack White jealously take notes from the sidelines.
Afrirampo rules! We love them dearly. They sound like a four-piece band.
Posted by: Krys O. | July 20, 2005 at 04:05 PM
They hung out here in New Orleans for a while...they just came here and would go to various clubs and ask to be on the bill. "Can we just open up", basically--there was a language barrier. They seemed very shy. Pretty much everybody said "okay." AND THEY KILLED US.
Posted by: dave rhoden | July 22, 2005 at 10:50 PM
They killed us at Tonic too...with a pie. It was Brian C from Lightning Bolt's birthday, and at the end of their set, Oni creamed everyone on the floor with a hot, runny, peanut butter pie.
Seek out their also-new URUSA CD from Japan, the DVD accompanying it is fantastic -- they made one vid clip straight out of a DJ Jazzy Jeff set or something on it!
Posted by: Brian Turner | July 24, 2005 at 10:57 PM
Hi,I'm Japanese fun of AfriRampo.I Think there perfoming is Naked Chaos.I loved very much.
Posted by: Kaz | September 26, 2005 at 11:57 PM