Effective period / Period of releases: 1997

Members: Makoto Kawabata, Asahito Nanjo, Hajime Koizumi, Mineko Itakura, Nobuko Emi

The Seventh Seal were one of Asahito Nanjo’s projects in the 1990s. Rather than a separate band, Seventh Seal were a mutation of his ongoing project known as Ohkami no jikan (‘time for wolves’, or ‘wolf era’). This constellation’s variable line-up strayed on the more mystical side of Tokyo’s ‘psychedelic’ scene, an approach which would flourish when in the mid-1990s Makoto Kawabata joined the sessions. Around that time the two musicians also appeared in organized noise-rock supergroup Musica Transonic.