...and yours truly will be on the bill (with Thunderbolt Pagoda) as well in a couple of stops, namely St. Paul Minnesota and Chicago Illinois. I'm very excited to see them and to share the stage with them. For these two shows, Suishou no Fune will be joined on drums by Matt Zaun (of Salamander, Skye Klad, Blitzen, Di Dollari and more). Come and check it out if this kind of music is up your alley. All the other artists on these bills are worthy of your investigation as well. Hopefully a good time will be had by all.
Dates:
Wednesday Sept 19
The Turf Club
1601 University Ave
St Paul, MN 55104
9:00 PM 21+
Suishou no Fune
Thunderbolt Pagoda
Knife World
Paul Metzger
Friday Sept 21st
Permanent Records
1914 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
ph. 773.278.1744
Doors 8:00, music at 8:30 sharp
All Ages
Suishou no Fune
Plastic Crimewave Sound
Thunderbolt Pagoda
Druids Of Huge
About Suishou no Fune:
Formed in 1999 as a duo of guitarist Pirako Kurenai and guitarist Kageo, Suishou no Fune have been making some of the most charmingly chaotic dream music coming out of Japan. Their sound contains subcutaneous elements of no-wave energy mixed with psychedelic rock a la early Fushitsusha or Kousokuya. Other songs approach balladry with oddly beautiful twinned vocals and distorted guitars. They have performed around Tokyo with a list of people who could succinctly be described as everybody and were even invited to play Scotland's Weekend festival in 2005. -- Holy Mountain
The group's sound runs from massively distended nod-outs that recall parts of the first Fushitsusha album through weird duo tracks that orbit a parallel universe where late-period John Fahey was the prime influence on Charalambides, infernal Dead C/Gate style guitar abuse and achingly beautiful comedown ballads. The twin vocalists are massively different in their approach, with Pirako singing in a high wayward style that's all throat and no lungs while Kageo works from the other end of the pipes with a ripped Father Yod/Jim Morrison/Keiji Haino polyglot. Simply one of the greatest out-of-nowhere groups to come out of the Tokyo underground in years and the undisputed stars of PSF's recent Tokyo Flashback 5 compilation. --Volcanic Tongue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y74TJNwOXZ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVmOHs0Isf0
http://www.thewire.co.uk/web/camera7.php