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Portland, OR's space rock quartet Yume Bitsu consists of guitarist/vocalist Adam Forkner, guitarist Franz Prichard, keyboardist Alex Bundy, and drummer Jason Anderson, who also helms the indie rock band Wolf Colonel. The band -- whose name means "dream beats" in Japanese -- mixes deep, droning compositions with the odd psych pop song or two on releases like their self-titled debut and Giant Surface Music Falling to Earth Like Jewels From the Sky, which were both released by Ba Da Bing! Records. 2000 saw the release of Auspicious Winds, which refers to the Japanese High Tea ceremony, on K Records. Giant Surface Music Falling to Earth Like Jewels From the Sky followed in spring 2001, and Golden Vessyl of Sound in spring 2002.
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Yume Bitsu (meaning "dream beats" in Japanese), was a psychedelic rock/space rock band from Portland, Oregon active between 1995 and 2002.
Their debut Giant Surface Music Falling to Earth Like Jewels From the Sky was self-released in 1998 and was re-released by BaBaBing! Records in 1999. Their second album was self titled and was released in 1999 by BaDaBing! Their third album, Auspicious Winds was released by K Records in 2000. Their forth - and perhaps last - album Golden Vessyl of Sound was released in 2002 by K Records. It received a rating of 8.5 out of 10 from popular music criticism site pitchfork.com. Beyond full length records, Yume Bitsu released two vinyl EPs: a split 12-inch vinyl EP with Andrew Reiger of Elf Power was released in 2002 on Planaria Records and Wabi Morning, a one-sided twelve-inch was released in 2003 on Burnt Toast Vinyl. Recordings of live shows from 2002 (originally available as the 4th side of the vinyl version of 2002's Golden Vessyl of Sound) were released by States Rights Records in 2002.
Vocalist/guitarist Adam Forkner is active as White Rainbow and was part of Surface of Eceon, a group which featured Forkner along with members of Landing. Adam also recorded an album as Vvrssnn on K Records
Guitarist Franz Prichard was a part of the Japanese instrumental rock group kabaddi kabaddi kabaddi kabaddi which included members of Japanese rock bands Moools and Maher Shalal Hash Baz. A self-titled record was released in Japan in 2005.
Drummer Jason Anderson is a singer-songwriter with releases on K Records.
