Minamata

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Minamata - legendary French industrial group, its name borrowed from the Japanese city, next to whom in 1954 there was a major technological accidents, causing severe pollution. With Minamata appeared in the mid 80's and performed as a trio a few years. At the time of radical and provocative it could compete only Le Syndicat. But then the creator of the group (Tiburce) dismissed the remaining members and continued to record music in solitude under the name La Nomenklatur. Some records Minamata and La Nomenklatur he published on his own label, Les Nouvelles Propagandes, the most famous album was "La Legende De Voix", recorded in 1986 and re-label Ant-Zen. But in 2002 Tiburce decided to resurrect his old project, and even spoke with him at a concert in 2007. In 2008 the label Nuit & Brouillard released CD "Niigata" - reprint of the third tape recorded and released in 1985. Perhaps the most powerful of all the material heritage of Minamata, old school industrial with a large metal percussion and a wild roar of distorted voices instead of singing - a real agony. And in 2009 came out boxing (CD + DVD) "Cyclator" with the new audio / video material, which Minamata presented in the program's recent festival "Tonwellen Konferenz 2" in Burscheid (Germany), which also featured such cult artists such as Hijokaidan, Whitehouse, Satori, Irikarah, Atrox, Flutwacht, Code 243 and N.Strahl.N. Minamata disease - a syndrome caused by methylmercury poisoning. It was first discovered in Japan