About PALP002

The next release on Palindrone (PALP002) is gonna be an album by Kawaguchi Masami's New Rock Syndicate. Masami is a Japanese guitar monster* who has done time in Miminokoto, LSD March, and Broomdusters, and played with Keiji Haino for a time. This, his new band, also features bassist Akira Kikuchi and drummer Nao Shibata (Hijokaidan, Doodles). A track by New Rock Syndicate featured on the recent PSF compilation Tokyo Flashback vol. 6.

The new album is called Cat vs. Frog and clocks in at around 40 min. It's exceptional wailing, burning psych-rock and I'm thrilled and excited to be releasing it. It's going to be pressed on white vinyl, in an edition of 500.

The image on the right isn't anything significant, by the way, I just found it on Masami's myspace page. It could be one of the coolest band logos I have ever seen though.


The cover art for Cat vs. Frog is by German artist Sandra Schmidt, who is now resident in New Zealand. It's a really intricate and intriguing 2001 pen-on-board work, entitled "OMS, involved in a battle":


* according to Mason Jones; however I tend to concur.