1000 Travels of Jawaharlal

For those who don't like to read: Japanese Melodic Punk/Hardcore at its finest. Owari Wa Konai is one of my favorite Japanese Hardcore LPs.

1000 Travels of Jawaharlal was:

Kouichirou "Kojak" Shimoda: Vo/Gu

Shinichi "Gan" Iwata: Ba

Yasuaki "PRN" Nakazono: Vo/Dr

So I'm almost finished finals week. I plan to post more when academia stops using me as a cheap 2 dollar whore. Regardless of all the lack of sleep and shit, I haven't had a fucking second to do anything else. Although I did get to watch Cold Fish by Sion Sono recently, and man what a fucking film. Now I have to check everything else out by this guy and just hope it's all as depraved and fucked up as Cold Fish was (mannnnnnnnnnn, I couldn't even guess that fucking movie for a second, fuck that movie).

1000 Travels of Jawaharlal Live in Tokyo. I'm pretty sure the song is "Gurasu No Mukou"

But that's really not the point. 1000 Travels played some next level fucking melodic hardcore. They were from Kita-Kyushu, Japan. I've heard a few people speak about this band, but for some reason they were referred to as "poser shit." I honestly don't know what to make of this, maybe it was just some bitter asshole? (the world has plenty of those, ex: me) Maybe they really were poser shit, although I don't know how they would be. I would usually dismiss something I heard like this as pure stupidity, but i mean, it actually sort of blows my mind someone would call them poser shit, because Owari Wa Konai is really one of the best albums I've heard. (best record score ever was just finding this fucking thing)

Owari Wa Konai is some designated time of fucking force. Shit, the first time I listened to this album in 2008 or so was quite the experience, blowing my stupid, little ears away. I don't really think it gets better Japanese hardcore than the tracks "With Smile and Slobber," "There is Nothing," and "Don't Turn Your Eyes Away." Just all melodic perfection. I'm trying really hard not to repeat myself here I promise. None of these guys do anything particularly incredibly or noteworthy with their instruments on their own, but all 3 of them together play some of the most fucking groovy, melodic, and fantastic riffs that I've ever been apart of hearing (at least in my eyes).

1000 Travels of Jawaharlal- "With Smile and Slobber"

While 1000 Travels wasn't ripping the universe with their LP, they put out a few splits with Snuffy Smiles bands, such as Minority Blues Band and Pear of the West. Outside of all files readily available on the internet, one could make a point that the rest of the 1000 Travels stuff doesn't exist because holy fucking shit, I can not find a thing after years of searching for all of them. Not a picture of one, not a file from there; the only thing that credits the existence of these splits and demos (split with Bowfura, split with Pear of the West, and their Demo) is the fact that their official website says that they existed at some point of time.

I have no fucking idea what any of these guys are up to now, because to be honest, I really have no way of figuring out. If you know of any other bands that they are in (or if you have any of this unfindable stuff) please let me know, I would totally be interested in hearing what else this band did.

The 4th track of letter skips. I don't know why. I can't find a version where it doesn't skip. So fuck you.

Letter CDep

Split w/ Minority Blues Band

Owari Wa Konai

Split w/ Aghast