Ryuji is now collaborating with a singer in N.Y, Linda Draper and producing the 2nd album of a band called " RAVE ".COLOR FILTER has released CDs from labels in USA, UK, Spain and Japan since 1996.the latest album is "blueberry" (2007) / Happiness Records (Japan)"
Ryuji playing his GUILD
Ryuji's blog(Japanese) : http://hungthedj.exblog.jp/
Press Review
"Silent Way" - Pointy Records (UK) & P-Vine Records (Japan), 2005
" sugar-coated gold" Q Magazine(UK)
"One for the mature Mid-western psychedelic visionary in your life. Wayne Coyne's favourite Japanese band, Color Filter, should really be a troupe of karate-kicking teddy bears all singing songs from The Sound Of Music. Actually, they're not that strange, but they are pretty sweet. This third album centres again on the vocals of Yuki Nishimura and falls between Saint Etienne's dappled Gallic pop and Flaming Lips' own percussive chunkiness, while Ryuji Tsuneyoshi's quaint, dreamy soundscapes usually sit happily in the corner. Psychedelic Breakfast would be better called Slightly Sleepy And Meandering Breakfast, but more assertive moments such as the deliciously trembling White Dots On Blue are sugar-coated gold."
" the chill-out album of the year" The Independent(UK)
This "electronic pop co-operative" from Tokyo are based around the myriad talents of guitarist, composer (and, apparently, award-winning nuclear physicist) Ryuji Tsuneyoshi. Having worked in Japan since 1996, the band is about to step on to a wider stage with Silent Way, which comes garlanded with praise from Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, who considers it a fount of psychedelic feeling. Others may consider its bliss-rock textures closer in mood and content to the Cocteau Twins: vocalist Yuki Nishimura may not have the range or daring of Liz Fraser but there's a comparable depth and slow momentum in the band's layered guitars and keyboards. "Rollercoaster" is something of a misnomer, the track's limid piano and guitar arrayed with a calm, unhurried grace behind Nishimura's breathy billing and cooing; but "Strange Day" is exactly that, its understated vibrato guitar and wistful organ washed with a gentle shower of rain, to magical effect. The gossamer charm of the Color Filter sound is most readily discernible on the album's only cover, a version of the ballad "Goin' Out of My Head" that's the musical equivalent of being caressed by a thousand feathers. Apart from the brief jazz-rock flourish of the climatic "Endless Word", Silent Way sounds like the chill-out album of the year.
Discography
album
"Sleep In A Synchrotron" (1998) /
FUZZYBOX RECORDS(USA)
"I OFTEN THINK IN MUSIC" (1999) / FUZZYBOX RECORDS(USA)
"COLOR FILTER REMIX" (1999) /
DARLA RECORDS(USA)
"LANDSCAPE" (2001) / DOGPRINT RECORDS(USA)
"LUMINESCENCE" (2001) /INIT-UNIVERSAL IMS(Japan)
"I'M NOT SAD IN THIS WORLD" (2002)/Siesta!(Japan)
"Silent Way" (2004) /
Pointy Records(UK)
"blueberry" (2007) / Happiness Records(Japan)
single
"Cosmic Voyage" (1996)/Blackbeanand Placenta Tape Club(USA)
"BLUE EP" (1998)/GOD'S POP RECORDS(Japan)
"sitting in the sand" (1999) /
ELEFANT RECORDS(SPAIN)
Compilation
"Drum & Bliss"(1998) / DARLA RECORDS(USA)
"Casablanca" (1999) / ELEFANT RECORDS(SPAIN)
"Drum & Bliss2"(1999) / DARLA RECORDS(USA)
"Darla 100 1994-2000"(2000) / DARLA RECORDS(USA)
"We Love You...So Love Us"(2000) /
WE LOVE YOU(UK)
Tribute to New Order "RE:MOVEMENT" / SAL DISC(JAPAN)
"A GIFT FROM A GARDEN TO A FLOWER: TRIBUTE TO DONOVAN" (2002) / DARLA RECORDS(USA)
COLOR FILTER played at SXSW Music Festival, Austin, Texas 2002
