Blasting Rod - Of Wild Hazel

The Elvis Posse [3:55]
[Written and Arranged by Chris Craychee/S. Shah/Chihiro/Y. Yasui]

Blasting Rod:
S. Shah スティーブン: Guitar/Voice/Percussion/Synthesizer/☿
Yoshihiro Yasui 安井義博: Bass Guitar/Guitar/Percussion/☿
Chihiro: Drums/Percussion/♂

Additional Musicians:

Gorgeous O’Hara: Percussion on “The Elvis Posse”

Produced by S. Shah

Executive Producer, Chihiro

Recorded by 
Yoshikazu “Dabo” Tanaka at Dabox Studio for Paradise Kappa, Nagoya, Japan.
Norihiro Nakamura at Studio dubreel, Asuke Village, Japan.
Mark Hardy at PJPII, Chicago, Illinois.
S. Shah on Rama VI Road, Bangkok, Thailand, at Om Guesthouse, Jagannath Mandir Road, and somewhere on Bansphatak Road, Varanasi, India. 

Mixed by Norihiro Nakamura, S. Shah, and Chihiro at Studio dubreel

Mastered and lacquer cut by David Polster at Well Made Music, Bristol, Virginia

“World Famous” Kenji “From Nagoya” does not play cowbell on this album

“Hazelnut (male flower), overlay of 7 channel autoflourescence microscopy” by ZEISS Microscopy from Germany reproduced  without endorsement under a CC-by-2.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode)

Of Wild Hazel

The Elvis Posse

Blasting Rod - Of Wild Hazel

Where Today Begins and Yesterday Ends / Star King [6:30]
[Written and Arranged by S. Shah/Y. Yasui/Chihiro]

Blasting Rod:
S. Shah スティーブン: Guitar/Voice/Percussion/Synthesizer/☿
Yoshihiro Yasui 安井義博: Bass Guitar/Guitar/Percussion/☿
Chihiro: Drums/Percussion/♂

Produced by S. Shah

Executive Producer, Chihiro

Recorded by 
Yoshikazu “Dabo” Tanaka at Dabox Studio for Paradise Kappa, Nagoya, Japan.
Norihiro Nakamura at Studio dubreel, Asuke Village, Japan.
Mark Hardy at PJPII, Chicago, Illinois.
S. Shah on Rama VI Road, Bangkok, Thailand, at Om Guesthouse, Jagannath Mandir Road, and somewhere on Bansphatak Road, Varanasi, India. 

Mixed by Norihiro Nakamura, S. Shah, and Chihiro at Studio dubreel

Mastered and lacquer cut by David Polster at Well Made Music, Bristol, Virginia

“World Famous” Kenji “From Nagoya” does not play cowbell on this album

“Hazelnut (male flower), overlay of 7 channel autoflourescence microscopy” by ZEISS Microscopy from Germany reproduced  without endorsement under a CC-by-2.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode)

Where Today Begins and Yesterday Ends / Sun King

Blasting Rod - Of Wild Hazel

Quiet Morning (Crescent) [4:35]
[Written and Arranged by S. Shah/Chihiro/Y. Yasui]

Blasting Rod:
S. Shah スティーブン: Guitar/Voice/Percussion/Synthesizer/☿
Yoshihiro Yasui 安井義博: Bass Guitar/Guitar/Percussion/☿
Chihiro: Drums/Percussion/♂

Produced by S. Shah

Executive Producer, Chihiro

Recorded by 
Yoshikazu “Dabo” Tanaka at Dabox Studio for Paradise Kappa, Nagoya, Japan.
Norihiro Nakamura at Studio dubreel, Asuke Village, Japan.
Mark Hardy at PJPII, Chicago, Illinois.
S. Shah on Rama VI Road, Bangkok, Thailand, at Om Guesthouse, Jagannath Mandir Road, and somewhere on Bansphatak Road, Varanasi, India. 

Mixed by Norihiro Nakamura, S. Shah, and Chihiro at Studio dubreel

Mastered and lacquer cut by David Polster at Well Made Music, Bristol, Virginia

“World Famous” Kenji “From Nagoya” does not play cowbell on this album

“Hazelnut (male flower), overlay of 7 channel autoflourescence microscopy” by ZEISS Microscopy from Germany reproduced  without endorsement under a CC-by-2.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode)

Quiet Morning

Blasting Rod - Of Wild Hazel

A:
Wheel Upon the Car of Dragonaut [4:30]
[Written and Arranged by S. Shah/Chihiro/Y. Yasui]

Sin City Blues [4:35]
[Written and Arranged by S. Shah/Chihiro/Y. Yasui]

Quiet Morning (Crescent) [4:35]
[Written and Arranged by S. Shah/Chihiro/Y. Yasui]

Where Today Begins and Yesterday Ends / Star King [6:30]
[Written and Arranged by S. Shah/Y. Yasui/Chihiro]

B:
The Elvis Posse [3:55]
[Written and Arranged by Chris Craychee/S. Shah/Chihiro/Y. Yasui]

Screaming Into the Æther [4:05]
[Written and Arranged by S. Shah/Chihiro/Y. Yasui]

Mirror Moon Ascending [2:15]
[Written and Arranged by S. Shah/Y. Yasui/Chihiro/M. Hardy]

Oh, Emma, Burn  It Down [6:18]
[Written and Arranged by S. Shah/Makoto Kagami/Yasuko Kurono/Chihiro/Y. Yasui]

Dragon Lady Run (For Buzz Terrance) [2:21]
[Written and Arranged by S. Shah/Y. Yasui/Chihiro]


Blasting Rod:
S. Shah スティーブン: Guitar/Voice/Percussion/Synthesizer/☿
Yoshihiro Yasui 安井義博: Bass Guitar/Guitar/Percussion/☿
Chihiro: Drums/Percussion/♂

Additional Musicians:
Noriko O’Sugi: Vocals on “Wheel Upon the Car of Dragonaut”
Makoto Kagami (Demolition): Vocals on “Oh, Emma. (Burn it Down)”
Mark Hardy: Keyboards on “Mirror Moon Ascending”
Gorgeous O’Hara: Percussion on “The Elves Pose” and “Dragon Lady (For Buzz Terrance Runs)”
Norihiro Nakamura (Morning Set): Synthesizer on “Dragon Lady (For Buzz Terrance Runs)”
Guy San’s Guitar  on “Oh, Emma (Burn It Down)”


Sin City Singers:
S. Shah
Chihiro
Makoto Kagami
Noriko O’Sugi
N.A.O.

Produced by S. Shah

Executive Producer, Chihiro

Recorded by 
Yoshikazu “Dabo” Tanaka at Dabox Studio for Paradise Kappa, Nagoya, Japan.
Norihiro Nakamura at Studio dubreel, Asuke Village, Japan.
Mark Hardy at PJPII, Chicago, Illinois.
S. Shah on Rama VI Road, Bangkok, Thailand, at Om Guesthouse, Jagannath Mandir Road, and somewhere on Bansphatak Road, Varanasi, India. 

Mixed by Norihiro Nakamura, S. Shah, and Chihiro at Studio dubreel

Mastered and lacquer cut by David Polster at Well Made Music, Bristol, Virginia

“World Famous” Kenji “From Nagoya” does not play cowbell on this album

“Hazelnut (male flower), overlay of 7 channel autoflourescence microscopy” by ZEISS Microscopy from Germany reproduced  without endorsement under a CC-by-2.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode)

Sin City Blues

Blasting Rod - Of Wild Hazel

Wheel Upon the Car of Dragonaut [4:30]
[Written and Arranged by S. Shah/Chihiro/Y. Yasui]

Blasting Rod:
S. Shah スティーブン: Guitar/Voice/Percussion/Synthesizer/☿
Yoshihiro Yasui 安井義博: Bass Guitar/Guitar/Percussion/☿
Chihiro: Drums/Percussion/♂

Additional Musicians:
Noriko O’Sugi: Vocals on “Wheel Upon the Car of Dragonaut”

Produced by S. Shah

Executive Producer, Chihiro

Recorded by 
Yoshikazu “Dabo” Tanaka at Dabox Studio for Paradise Kappa, Nagoya, Japan.
Norihiro Nakamura at Studio dubreel, Asuke Village, Japan.
Mark Hardy at PJPII, Chicago, Illinois.
S. Shah on Rama VI Road, Bangkok, Thailand, at Om Guesthouse, Jagannath Mandir Road, and somewhere on Bansphatak Road, Varanasi, India. 

Mixed by Norihiro Nakamura, S. Shah, and Chihiro at Studio dubreel

Mastered and lacquer cut by David Polster at Well Made Music, Bristol, Virginia

“World Famous” Kenji “From Nagoya” does not play cowbell on this album

“Hazelnut (male flower), overlay of 7 channel autoflourescence microscopy” by ZEISS Microscopy from Germany reproduced  without endorsement under a CC-by-2.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode)

Wheel Upon the Car of Dragonaut

Primordial proto-Blasting Rod (Mk VIII)

S. Shah　スティーブン (Rockthing BS) : guitar/vocal
Dnaldoog　グッドランド : synth
三芳俊二　Shunji Miyoshi : electric bass
マエチン　Maëchîn : drums

Shunji Miyoshi 三芳屋:
twitter.com/kamadoneko_01

Dnaldoog　グッドランド :
https://soundcloud.com/dnaldoog

マエチン　Maëchîn : 
https://soundcloud.com/yusuke-maeda-3

Invoking the Princess (dnald00g remix II E)

Recorded by Daniel Joeright at Gatos Trail Studio, Yucca Valley, California―Assisted by Aaron Farinelli

Mixed and Mastered by S. Shah at The Nest, Nagoya, Japan

S. Shah also played guitar, made other funny noises, visual art and additional recordings, conjured riffs, and scribbled words and voiced them.

Chihiro played drums and other percussion, and generally called the shots as executive producer.

Yoshihiro Yasui played whatever he wanted on bass guitar, and inspired with cause for pause.

Associate Producers: Aunt Mimi, Jude, GM, Charlie

Dedicated to JR Parmar, Nanya, and The Folks on the Crick.

Special thanks to Yukito Okazaki at Studio Zen, Japan・Zoe Joeright・Buddy Donner・Tom Frankot・and most importantly to our intrepid road manager, Nancy Bukowski.

Mojave Green

Grandon the Stone Cutter (OG ver.)

Bowl of Shala

Yao Tsu (Infinity Landing)

YEA 24M (Cosmic Bash)

https://blastingrod.bandcamp.com/album/blasting-rod

Blasting Rod's first limited edition CD, comprised of four S. Shah (g/vo) compositions, distills the essence of the Mark VIIIb Blasting Rod power trio from its more sprawling live approach circa 2016. It was recorded and mastered by Nagoya's Doom-Meister, Mr. Yukito Okazaki of Eternal Elysium. スティーブン（g/vo）が1作曲した４曲はパワートリオの本質をむき出しにしたブラスティング・ロッドの初限定CD。名古屋DOOM界重鎮エターナル・イリジウム岡崎幸人氏によってレコーディングとマスタリングした音源である。

released September 22, 2016

S. SHAH ステイーブン: guitars, voice, electronics, percussion
SHUNJI MIYOSHI 三芳俊二: bass guitar
CHIHIRO SUZUKI ちひろ: drum kit

Produced by Shah, Miyoshi, Suzuki

Engineered by YUKITO OKAZAKI
Mixed by Okazaki, Shah, Miyoshi, Suzuki
Mastered by Yukito Okazaki
at
Studio ZEN, Nagoya, Japan

with Technical Support from
Miyoshiya/ NOZZY/ Gen Uchimura/ Yuji Watanabe/Clint Ewing/ Thia Tsuruta/ Koîchi "Master" Fujitani

Visual Art by ROCKTHING

All songs by S. Shah (arr. Shah, Miyoshi, Suzuki)

There are others to whom we attempted to give credit, but who declined.

Low&Slow.Disk BSR-012
a subsidiary of Arc of Uriel
(P)©2016 Blasting Rod

Blasting Rod

BSR-012

Green Light Purple Night

Produced by Sven SHAH
Executive Producer: Chihiro

S. Shah: guitar, vocal, keyboard
Yoshihiro YASUI: bass guitar
Chihiro: drums and percussion

with 
Monolithic Chorale for Freakout in X:
Houmei YANAGAWA: alto saxophone Misaki ISHIWATA: trumpet Toshinori TERUKINA: trombone arranged by Mark D. HARDY conducted by Misaki Ishiwata

Recording engineered by Yoshikazu “Dabo” TANAKA at Dabox Studio for Paradise Kappa, S. Shah at Studio 246 Nagoya and The Nest, Yukito OKAZAKI at Studio Zen, and Norihiro NAKAMURA at Studio Dub Reel.

Mixed by S. Shah at The Nest
Mastered by Norihiro Nakamura at Studio Dub Reel

Tree of Hope painting by Stela Casian
Design by Rockthing

Noriko OSUGI: Road Manager
“World Famous” Kenji in Nagoya: The Road Crew

Weedgrown Rocks (Space Rainbows in 7256 A.D. ver.) feat. Monolithic Chorale for Freakout in X
[Written and arranged by Shah, Hardy, Chihiro, and Yasui]

From Blasting Rod III
https://blastingrod.bandcamp.com/album/iii

Weedgrown Rocks (Space Rainbows In 7256 A.D. Ver.) Fea. Monolithic Chorale For Freakout In X

Fuzzy grooves and slippery psychedelia.

S. Shah スティーブン: guitar/ vocal/ electronics
Yoshihiro Yasui 安井義博: bass guitar
Chihiro ちひろ: drums/ percussion

2024: 
・Support act for the Brant Bjork Trio, 10/25, Tokuzo, Nagoya, Japan
・Release "Mojave Green" album on LP, CD, Cassette, Digital
・North American debut performance in Los Angeles
2023: 
・Support act for Earthless, 10/5, Huck Finn, Nagoya, Japan
・2nd LP, Of Wild Hazel released in North America by Glory or Death Records, California
2022: 
・Gek'kyoü single released in Japan on mono 7" 45rpm Japanese vinyl, and distributed by Clear Spot/Shiny Beast in the E.U., and by Glory or Death Records, California. 
・Of Wild Hazel full album released in Japan on 8-track Tape, CD, and LP by Low&Slow.Disk. CD and LP Distributed by Clear Spot/Shiny Beast in Europe. 8-track Tape released by Glory or Death Records, California.  
・Blasting Rod III reissued on LP by Glory or Death Records, California.
2021: First LP, Blasting Rod III, released with Glory or Death Records, California, and distributed by Clear Spot/Shiny Beast in Europe.
2019: Ltd. Ed. (100) Live in Japan "Official Bootleg" CD available only at concert venues.
2018: Yoshihiro Yasui replaces Shunji Miyoshi in mid-October.
2016: Self-titled BSR-012 EP CD released.
2015: 
・The first ever Blasting Rod rehearsals take place
・Shunji Miyoshi rejoins the band mid-year.
2014: 
・Yoshihiro Yamaguchi replaces Shunji Miyoshi in the fall.
・Chihiro fills in for Juüzoü on a spring date and stays in the drum seat.
・Shunji Miyoshi joins on electric bass after the act has a brief hiatus.
2009-2012: 
Shah collaborates with Contrabassist, Daïgo Ichi'no'se and drummer Juüzo Murata as core members of a flexible improvisation collective under the name Blasting Rod. For three years an identical lineup never appears twice. The group never uses a rehearsal studio.
2006: 
S. Shah gives three experimental solo performances as Blasting Rod.

"Adding an ethnic mood to American roots" -- Shin'ichi Isohata
「アメリカの文化にエスニックなムードが加味され」磯端伸一

"Heavy Psychedelic Guitar Shaman" --Ian Martin
「ヘビーサイケのギター呪術師」イアン・マーティン

"Gorgeous Van Halen"
「コージャスなヴァンヘーレン」 -Rock Bar UK

"Highly improvisational Doom Rock"
「インプロビゼーション性高しのドゥームロック」
- Isamu "Kotobazooka" Suzumura

"Within the roar there's a loose feel that's cool"
「爆音の中でたゆたう感じがよかった。」
- #nanyapuyo - あるじのタワゴト Aruji No Tawagoto

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