OGRE YOU ASSHOLE

OGRE YOU ASSHOLE

OGRE YOU ASSHOLE is a 4 piece band from Japan. OYA has established their reputation as a live band by performing completely different live arrangements from their original recording versions on their albums at their shows. Their Kraut rock / Psychedelic rock inspired live arrangements of a song could often expand to more than 10 minutes long improvisational jam sessions. Some of those new arrangements are on the remix/re-arranged album "Confidential" released in 2013, and "Workshop"series the live album released in 2015 2017 2020. Numbers of appearances at popular music festivals and touring with various alternative rock bands such as Modest Mouse, MGMT, Wolf Parade, Deerhunter, MERZBOW, Connan Mockasin, Arto Lindsay, Kula Shaker, Michael Rother, Sunset Rollercoaster and many more. In October 2009, OYA went on a North American tour, supporting Wolf Parade, in November 2010. OYA has created three concept albums (trilogy), "homely", "100 years passed" and "Papercraft" with produce team, the producer You Ishihara (ex-White Heaven, The Stars) and the sound engineer Soichiro Nakamura. Since then, OYA has self-produced two albums, "everythingsomethingnothing" and "new kind of man".