Envy (band)
Encyclopedia
Envy is a rock
band from Japan
. They are signed to Rock Action Records
in Europe
and Temporary Residence Limited
in North America
, though originally they worked with Level Plane Records. More recently in their career, Envy's music has grown to include elements of post-rock
.
Vocalist Tetsuya Fukagawa was featured on the song "I Chose Horses" from the album Mr. Beast by Scottish
post-rock
band Mogwai
, the same band that owns and operates Rock Action Records.
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band from Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. They are signed to Rock Action Records
Rock Action Records
Rock Action Records is a Glasgow-based record label, founded and maintained by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai. The label has showcased such diverse talents as Part Chimp, Errors, Trout, The James Orr Complex and Kling Klang, has licensed music for UK release from Torche, Envy, Afrirampo and...
in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and Temporary Residence Limited
Temporary Residence Limited
Temporary Residence Limited is a Brooklyn, New York-based record label. TRL was started in Baltimore, Maryland in late 1995. The label's first release was The Concord Anthology Process/Nero split 7", released April 1, 1996. After moving the operation to Portland, Oregon, owner/operator Jeremy...
in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
, though originally they worked with Level Plane Records. More recently in their career, Envy's music has grown to include elements of post-rock
Post-rock
Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...
.
Vocalist Tetsuya Fukagawa was featured on the song "I Chose Horses" from the album Mr. Beast by Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
post-rock
Post-rock
Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...
band Mogwai
Mogwai
The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔怪 meaning "monster", "evil spirit", "devil" or "demon".-Mogwai/Mogui in Chinese culture:...
, the same band that owns and operates Rock Action Records.
Members
- Tetsuya Fukagawa (vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
/sequencerMusic sequencerThe music sequencer is a device or computer software to record, edit, play back the music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically :...
) - Nobukata Kawai (guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
) - Masahiro Tobita (guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
) - Manabu Nakagawa (bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
) - Dairoku Seki (drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
)
Studio albums
- From Here to EternityFrom Here To Eternity (Envy album)From Here To Eternity is the second album by the band Envy. It was released in Japan in 1998 by the label H.G. Fact in both CD and LP formats...
LP/CD (H.G. Fact) (1998) - All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting AheadAll The Footprints You've Ever Left And The Fear Expecting AheadAll The Footprints You've Ever Left And The Fear Expecting Ahead is an album by Envy. It was released in Japan in 2001 by the label H.G. Fact in both CD and LP formats. Originally, the CD also saw a European release on France's Molaire Industries, and was distributed in the US on indie label Dim Mak...
LP/CD (H.G. Fact/Molaire Industries/Dim MakDim Mak RecordsDim Mak Records is a record label founded in 1996 by Steve Aoki and based in Los Angeles, CA. Dim Mak's first release was a 7" by a little known hardcore band from southern California, Stickfigurecarousel.-Roster:Active* Steve Aoki* All Leather...
/Rock ActionRock Action RecordsRock Action Records is a Glasgow-based record label, founded and maintained by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai. The label has showcased such diverse talents as Part Chimp, Errors, Trout, The James Orr Complex and Kling Klang, has licensed music for UK release from Torche, Envy, Afrirampo and...
) (2001) - A Dead Sinking StoryA Dead Sinking StoryA Dead Sinking Story is an album by the Japanese band Envy. The album was released on August 18, 2003 on Level Plane Records. It is their only album recorded with three guitarists; Daichi Takasugi joined before the creation of the album and left after the related tour.-Track...
CD/2xLP (Sonzai/Level Plane/Nova Recordings/Rock ActionRock Action RecordsRock Action Records is a Glasgow-based record label, founded and maintained by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai. The label has showcased such diverse talents as Part Chimp, Errors, Trout, The James Orr Complex and Kling Klang, has licensed music for UK release from Torche, Envy, Afrirampo and...
) (2003) - Insomniac DozeInsomniac DozeInsomniac Doze is an album from Envy. The sound of Insomniac Doze is characterized as being more epic and atmospheric than what is noted in Envy's previous albums...
LP/CD (Sonzai) (2006) - Recitation LP/CD (Sonzai/Temporary Residence LimitedTemporary Residence LimitedTemporary Residence Limited is a Brooklyn, New York-based record label. TRL was started in Baltimore, Maryland in late 1995. The label's first release was The Concord Anthology Process/Nero split 7", released April 1, 1996. After moving the operation to Portland, Oregon, owner/operator Jeremy...
/Rock ActionRock Action RecordsRock Action Records is a Glasgow-based record label, founded and maintained by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai. The label has showcased such diverse talents as Part Chimp, Errors, Trout, The James Orr Complex and Kling Klang, has licensed music for UK release from Torche, Envy, Afrirampo and...
) (2010)
EPs
- Breathing And Dying In This Place CD (H.G. Fact) (1996)
- Angel's Curse Whispered In The Edge Of Despair LP/CD (H.G. Fact) (1999)
- The Eyes Of Single Eared Prophet CD (H.G. Fact) (2000)
- Burning Out Memories 10" (Molaire Industries) (2000)
- Abyssal LP/CD (Sonzai) (2007)
Splits
- Split 7" with Sixpence (H.G. Fact) (1997)
- Split 7" with Endeavor (H.G. Fact) (1997)
- Split 7" with This Machine Kills (H.G. Fact) (2000)
- Split CD with Iscariote (Waiting for an Angel/Sonzai/Level Plane; 10" released by Pure Pain Sugar/Code Of Ethics) (2002)
- Split CD with Yaphet Kotto and This Machine Kills (Sonzai) (2003)
- "Envy / JesuEnvy / JesuEnvy / Jesu is a split album between Japanese hardcore band Envy and Justin Broadrick's Jesu. It was originally released in Japan by Daymare in 2008. Conspiracy Records released a 12" vinyl version, limited to 2,000 copies in white, transparent blue, gold and silver.Hydra Head Records re-released...
" LP/CD (Daymare Recordings) (2008) - "Thursday / EnvyThursday / EnvyThursday / Envy is a split album containing tracks contributed by post-hardcore band Thursday and screamo/post-rock band Envy. It was released exclusively in a package containing the album on both 180 gram 12" vinyl and on CD — individual CDs or vinyl have not been made available...
" LP/CD (Temporary Residence LimitedTemporary Residence LimitedTemporary Residence Limited is a Brooklyn, New York-based record label. TRL was started in Baltimore, Maryland in late 1995. The label's first release was The Concord Anthology Process/Nero split 7", released April 1, 1996. After moving the operation to Portland, Oregon, owner/operator Jeremy...
) (2008)
Compilations
- Far East Hardcore Comp LP/CD (Got's Pop/Slam Records)
- Platform Comp 7" (Never Shown Face)
- No Fate Comp CD (H.G. Fact)
- For Ugly For Beautiful Vol. 3 Comp CD (Lunch Service Records)
- Lucky Thirteen Comp LP (Nova Recordings)
- Compiled Fragments 1997-2003Compiled Fragments 1997-2003Compiled Fragments 1997–2003 is an album by Envy. It was released in Japan in 2005 by Sonzai Records and is going to be released on February 19, 2008 on Temporary Residence Limited....
CD (Sonzai/Temporary Residence LimitedTemporary Residence LimitedTemporary Residence Limited is a Brooklyn, New York-based record label. TRL was started in Baltimore, Maryland in late 1995. The label's first release was The Concord Anthology Process/Nero split 7", released April 1, 1996. After moving the operation to Portland, Oregon, owner/operator Jeremy...
) (2005) - Destroy Independent Music!Destroy Independent Music!Destroy Independent Music! is a free music sampler, featuring various artists from record label Temporary Residence Limited that was released in the spring of 2007.-Track listing:# "Easy Magic" by Prints - 4:58# "I Hate You Rob Crow" by Rob Crow - 2:10...
(2006–2007, Temporary Residence LimitedTemporary Residence LimitedTemporary Residence Limited is a Brooklyn, New York-based record label. TRL was started in Baltimore, Maryland in late 1995. The label's first release was The Concord Anthology Process/Nero split 7", released April 1, 1996. After moving the operation to Portland, Oregon, owner/operator Jeremy...
) sampler