ROTH BART BARON is a two-member rock band group that formed in Tokyo in 2008. The band consists of Masaya Mifune (vocals & guitar) and Tetsuya Nakahara (drums). In 2009, the band won the “Outstanding performance award” and ”Best audience award” (voted by the attendance) while competing with other 5,409 groups at the 3rd Music Revolution Japan Final - a music contest hosted by YAMAHA.Since then,they have started performing actively at various venues.Subsequently,they released their first debut EP - ”ROTH BART BARON”, which was highly acclaimed by renowned Japanese record shops such as disk union and JET SET Records in 2010. Despite being a new and unknown band, they have also launched their EP on the iTunes Music Store to release their EP world widely.The usage of various instruments such as guitar, banjo, mandolin, piano, taiko drum and fiddle, are combined to create an epic soundscape and aesthetic melody with lyrics full of vitality and raw passion. Not just domestic music listeners, overwhelming admiration comments from all over the world are also captured from music social networking sites such as SoundCloud.And then they released their second EP - ”MONSTER MOUNTAIN AND CHOIRBOYS” in 2012.
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