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Shinichi Osawa Born February 7, 1967. Originally from Shiga. Blood Type O. Shinichi Osawa made his debut as the leader and bassist for MONDO GROSSO, a band formed in Kyoto in 1991, with an album “MONDO GROSSO” released in 1993 from For Life Records (Japan). In the heightened acid-jazz movement, the album got great reviews and was well-received overseas as well. In 1995, after finishing off the tour following the release of the second album “Born Free,” the band was disbanded. Thereafter, MONDO GROSSO has become a collaborative unit featuring Shinichi and various vocalists and musicians that he chooses to...

Press info: Mondo Fumatore, hailing from Berlin, Germany, this trio originally started back in 1998 with a rave reviewed album on Rewika Records. Since the drummer left the band pretty much after the first tour, they went on as a duo and started to digitalize their kind of fuzzy indierock sound (ranging from Beck to Sebadoh, but also from The Beatles to Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (the garage years) from album to album. Discography: “Rolling like an egg” CD, Rewika Records (1998) “Taxman/Plastic” 7-Inch, Houston Party Records (1999) “Mondo Fumatore vs. Mucus 2” 7-Inch, Rewika Records (2000) “Mondo Fumatore plays...

Léon Giesen is a singer-songwriter and filmmaker based in Utrecht, although he favors to label himself - perhaps more accurately - as a storyteller. In true storyteller fashion, the story takes precedence over form, resulting in song and film often intertwining as demonstrated by his live performances. Performing under the moniker Mondo Leone, Giesen extensively tours through his home country of the Netherlands. On these tours he presents different programmes, each of which has a different tour schedule that overlap more often than not. This is why attending any concert is a must: seeing him twice in one month does...

Mondo Generator (sometimes known as "Nick Oliveri And The Mondo Generator") is an American punk/hard rock band fronted by Nick Oliveri. Nick Oliveri (under the moniker Rex Everything) formed Mondo Generator in 1997 and with friends Josh Homme, Brant Bjork, Rob Oswald, and others, recorded the debut album, Cocaine Rodeo. The LP wouldn't be released until 3 years later due to Oliveri and Homme being full-time members of Queens of the Stone Age. The album was released by Southern Lord Records in 2000. There was little support of the album by the way of live shows, and the band gained...