betcover!! is a unique force in the Japanese music scene led by the talented Ryusei Jiro. ‘I don’t care how my music fits into daily life, how fashionable it is, or how cool it sounds. I want to make serious songs that you have to think deeply to hear.’ – Ryusei Jiro. Suddenly born through time and space, Ryusei Jiro from Chofu City, Tokyo, is only 25 years old. The broken-string guitar found in his grandfather’s room was the beginning. He started creating music in middle school. After releasing the mainstream work ‘Middle School Student’ in 2019, he was highly praised. The band betcover!! led by him has become an unignorable unique force in the Japanese music scene. Their music is dark and gloomy, full of provocation, extremely tense and full of poetry. Unmeasurable and uncontrollable, their many domestic tours have shocked audiences and rocked venues. Some people describe Ryusei as an ‘outlaw’ in the music scene, unrestrained and rebellious, disregarding mainstream trends. ‘In an era when music is treated as background music by everyone, I want to make music that cannot be treated as background.’ In the trend where many young people turn to hip-hop and abandon the band format, he takes the opposite path. After leaving the mainstream label, he resumed activities in a DIY way, and his performances expanded from solo to a band with several people. Subsequently, betcover!! consecutively released masterpieces such as ‘Time’ and ‘Egg’, showing that their talent cannot be ignored and they have received high praise at home and abroad. Some people say their music sounds similar to King Krule, while in Japan, some people think it has the shadow of Yura Yura Teikoku. Ryusei didn’t explain much about this. After all, he never cares who people say his music is like. As listeners, betcover!!’s music stirs people’s ‘nostalgia’ for the glorious past of music and arouses the desire for intense emotions in their hearts. With an indefinable musicality, the diverse styles and ever-changing live performance formats always explode the senses of the audience. With their music styles wandering everywhere and their live performance forms changing in countless ways, betcover!! takes jazz rock as the backbone. The soft and magnetic singing is mixed with tragic shouts, and the occasional bursts of noise challenge the limits of the audience. They are the most courageous group of extraordinary people in the music world today. You have to be willing to listen to hear what betcover!! wants to say. In the world of rock, the intersection of music and time has no absolute beginning or end. Only the magical transitions between songs hide the ups and downs of life. Every performance is a struggle.
Every performance for betcover!! is a battle. betcover!! strives to create a uniqueness in each show that cannot be replicated, making every performance a film that cannot be rewound, each time an ‘incident’. Thus, they play with a spirit of a decisive battle, for themselves and for the audience. Like the calm before a storm or the silence that follows a raging sea, everything is about to start yet seems to have already ended. In an era of distortion and instant gratification, where everyone can easily gain attention with tricks, we are grateful that there are still those who treat creation with such dedication and play with an elusive sense of fate, prompting introspection and making the audience marvel at life. They are the fools in music, led by Ryoji Yanagase, the Japanese band betcover!!’s only exclusive concert in Taipei, at THE WALL LIVE HOUSE on December 12th, tickets go on sale at noon on September 29th! ‘People will try to change you, but don’t let them.’ — The fools in time. Open time 12/12, performance time and duration subject to the venue.
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