Bonobos was a Japanese band from

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that was formed in August 2001. Its final lineup consisted of Chunho Sai (guitar, vocals), Ryuhei Koike (lead guitar), Natsuko Morimoto (bass), Hirowatari Uemoto (drums) and Yuji Tanaka (keyboards). The band released its first full-length album ''Hover Hover'' in 2004. In 2022 the band announced that it would disband one year later in spring 2023. The band officially disbanded in March 2023 after performing two farewell performances in Osaka and Tokyo.

Members

Current members

*Chunho Sai

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

(2001–2023) *Natsuko Morimoto

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(2001–2023) *Ryuhei Koike

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(2015–2023) *Yuji Tanaka keyboards (2015–2023) *Hirowatari Umemoto

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

(2015–2023)

Former Members

*Yasuyuki "Kojiro" Sasaki lead guitar (2001-2008) *Izumi Matsui

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

(2001-2010) *Bondo Tsuji drums (2001-2015)

Discography

Albums

*''Hover Hover'' (2004) *''Electlyric'' (2005) *''あ，うん (a, un)'' (2006) *''オリハルコン日和'' (2009) *''Ultra'' (2011) *''Hyper Folk'' (2014) *''23区'' (2016) *''.jp'' (2022)

Extended plays

*''Golden Days'' (2005) *''FOLK CITY FOLK.ep'' (2017)

Compilations

*''PastramaThe Best of Bonobos'' (January 30, 2008)

Singles

*"Mojiki Fuyu ga Kuru" *"Water" *"Ano Kotoba, Ano Hikari" *"Konnya-wa Groove Me" *"Thank You for the Music" *"Beautiful" *"Standing There ~Ima, Soko ni Ikuyo~" *"Arpeggio"

References

External links

bonobos.jp
the band's official website * {{Authority control 2001 establishments in Japan Musical groups from Osaka Japanese dub musical groups Japanese rock music groups Musical groups established in 2001 Japanese musical quintets Japanese reggae musical groups