Yakuza is a progressive heavy metal/hardcore band, formed in Chicago in 1999. Yakuza is known for incorporating jazz-influenced instrumentation into their music, such as saxophones and clarinets, as well as elements of world music. They included samples of Tibetan throat singing in the opening track, Vergasso, from their 2002 album, Way of the Dead.^[1] Yakuza's latest album is Samsara, released in 2006 on Prosthetic Records. Following in the footsteps of Way Of The Dead, Samsara has received high praise from the music press for its musicianship and creativity. Heavy metals, in chemistry, are chemical elements of a particular range of atomic weights. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837  - Mayor... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans at around the start of the 20th century. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet. ... Two soprano clarinets: a Bâ™­ clarinet (left) and an A clarinet (right, with no mouthpiece). ... World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ... Throat singing, also known in the western world as overtone singing, harmonic singing, or harmonic chant; and many other regional names, is a type of singing that manipulates the harmonic resonances (or formants) created as air travels through the human vocal folds and out the lips. ...

External links

• Yakuza's page on Prosthetic Records
• Yakuza's MySpace Page

1. ^ Way of the Dead review from All About Jazz