Absolut Null Punkt (often abbreviated to ANP) is a Japanese rock band formed by
KK Null
, known by his stage name KK Null, is a Japanese experimental multi-instrumentalist active since the early 1980s. He began as a guitarist but learned how to compose, sing, play drums, and create electronic music. He also studied Butoh dance at M ...
and
Seijiro Murayama in 1984.
ANP's music incorporates elements of
free jazz
Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventi ...
,
heavy rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard rock mu ...
,
industrial music, and
glitch music
Glitch is a genre of experimental electronic music that emerged in the 1990s, which is distinguished by the deliberate use of glitches in audio media and other sonic artifacts.
The sounds featured in glitch tracks usually come from audio recordi ...
. Although the group disbanded in 1987, they reformed in 2003 for a series of live performances. Recordings of these performances make up the ''Live in Japan'' album, released on the
Important Records
Important Records is an American independent record label based in Groveland, Massachusetts.
History
John Brien started Important Records in 2001 out of his Newburyport, Massachusetts apartment, initially as an online store. Important's first tw ...
label. This was followed by ''Metacompound'', the group's first studio recording in 19 years, also released on the Important Records label.
Absolut Null Punkt (Absolutt Nullpunkt) is
Norwegian for "
Total zero point".
References
External links
Japanese noise rock groups
Musical groups established in 1984
1984 establishments in Japan
Important Records artists
{{Japan-musician-stub