Anarchic, anything-goes garage-punk band Afrirampo is defined first and foremost by feelings: The feelings that drive the duo as artists and the feelings they evoke in audiences. As the band returns to the live circuit after a six-year absence, guitarist Mayumi "Oni" Saeki is acutely aware of how the feeling of the band has both changed and remained constant since before her and drummer Mineko "Pika" Azuma's extended hiatus.
Formed when the still-teenage Oni joined up with fresh-out-of-high school Pika, Afrirampo began making music together using just a pair of cheap Casiotone synthesizers before settling into the scorching red psychedelic garage-punk fireball we know them as today.
It was in this form that the duo became leading lights of an early-2000s Kansai scene dubbed by the domestic music press as the "Zero Generation."
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