Mo’some Tonebender: Perfectly good guitar

Mo'some Tonebender
Mo’some Tonebender | Mark Thompson photos

The Fukuoka-based indie guitar band Mo’some Tonebender closed the prefest concert at the Red Marquee in squalling style. As the name implies, they’re into every possible thing a guitar can do but aren’t particularly obsessed with chops, and the crowd was totally cool with that, or, at least, with the punishingly loud riff riot they produced on stage.

Mo'some Tonebender

Visually, the band was pretty interesting. Bassist Yasunori Takei wore a huge pair of angel’s wings and a neon signboard on his head, never missing a beat despite the added baggage. Drummer Isamu Fujita displayed the kind of open-mouthed freneticism one usually associates with guitarists (for the record, he plays guitar, too) but managed to channel it into pounding rhythms that never quit, even between songs.

Mo'some Tonebender

It was an efficient, satisfying half hour of noise and mayhem and left the assembled partiers stoked for the weekend.

Mo'some Tonebender
Mo’some Tonebender

Good call.