Hair Stylistics (a.k.a. Violent Onsen Geisha, Masaya Nakahara)
Born in 1970 at Tokyo, Nakahara started making music with MTR and a sampler around 1988. He released his first split LP from the U.S. independent label RRRecords as Violent Onsen Geisha in 1990. He released unique records such as Otis and Que Sera Sear (Things Go From Bad to Worse) in the mid 1990s. Nakahara changed his artist name from “Violent Onsen Geisha” to “Hair Stylistics” in 1997. The long-awaited latest album Custom Cook Confused Death was released in 2004. Along with musical activities, he is known as a film critic and a book Lost Memories of Cinema co-written with a novelist Kazushige ABE which was just recently released. He also started writing novels in 1994 with Mari and Fifis Massacre Song Book. Bouquets of Flowers Everywhere received the Mishima Yukio Prize in 2001. He was nominated for the Akutagawa Award in 2006. He is attracting much attention as a novelist recently.
He is on a very brief US tour, doing dates in LA (with Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy) and New York only.