Party: Kikagaku Moyo - Tau - Helicon

Party: Kikagaku Moyo - Tau - Helicon

KIKAGAKU MOYO - THE GLASGOW DEBUT!

To anyone who has heard the music of Kikagaku Moyo, it should come as no surprise that the band’s origins lie in hours upon hours of late-night jamming, illuminated by nothing more than the geometric patterns playing behind the band’s eyelids, resulting in a natural, free-floating sound, as of-the-earth as it is intergalactic. It may be surprising that the band sharpened their improvisational skills by busking on the streets of their native Tokyo. It may be surprising that the band’s overall sound may owe as much or more to the Incredible String Band as it does to Acid Mother’s Temple.

But what’s perhaps most surprising about Forest of Lost Children, the band’s face-melting, recorded-ritual sophomore album, is how utterly centered and mature the band sounds, especially given their relatively short lifespan as a band. Boundless though they may be, Kikagaku Moyo here sound anything but lost, their child-like wonder manifested in a confident, courageous exploration of sound. Labels – psychedelic, folk, prog-rock, psychedelic-folk-mixed-with-prog-rock – do little to accurately reflect the spectrum of influences on display, let alone the more impactful realization of completeness in Kikagaku Moyo’s songs.

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https://geometricpatterns.bandcamp.com/

TAU : For centuries the desert has proved to be a spiritually rich landscape. It’s vast openness and still tranquillity lending itself to

many a spiritual awakening or outer body experience once within its endless grasp; and in a world that gets busier and more

occupied by the day, this reflective escape into one of nature’s greatest spaces becomes understandably more appealing for

some. For Shaun Nunutzi, a member of the fearsome band Dead Skeletons and now operating under the name TAU, this has

certainly been the case. The mystical powers of the desert lands of the Real de Catorce in North West Mexico has proven to be

vital inspiration for the deeply psychedelic mind-trip EP entitled Wirakuta, which is the indigenous name for land.

On the first taste of the EP, Nunutzi reveals “Huey Tonantzin is a very famous medicine song sang in Temazcales and prayer

circles for thousands of years". They are the original psychedelia.”

Much like the desert’s wide-open spaces that inspired much of this project, TAU’s membership is also open and expansive and

contributors to the recordings which include members of Kadavar, The Soft Moon, The Pussywarmers and John Jeffery

drummer of Moon Duo. This opens the rotation of collaborators to experiment and connect. Although he’s also keen to point out

that while the group is fluid, it’s also one that is sonically cohesive and focused - “It’s not a jam band” he states. This latest trip,

both musically and physically, is one in a long line for the transient Nunutzi, the Irish-born, Berlin-based artist soaks up the

environments he travels through as creative fuel, as he himself attests to, “In my other projects Berlin was an influence but now

it’s leaving Berlin and discovering new places - that makes me creative.”

TAU is a project that is emblematic of the journey that led to its creation - it is something that is better to be experienced than it

is explained.

Reviews

NME

Line of Best Fit http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/discovery/tau-huey-tonantzin

The Sunday Experience https://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/tau/

Back Seat Mafia http://www.backseatmafia.com/2015/07/16/ep-review-tau-wirikuta/

Ian Robertson https://ianrobertson65.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/ep-review-tau-wirikuta-2/

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https://tauofficial.bandcamp.com/

HELICON : Harbingers of sonic doom. Space rock n shoegaze meet each other in a fuzzed out haze of droning subsonic boom. Heavy, melodic, blissful, frightening and all at once. Feel ALIVE.

https://heliconglasgow.bandcamp.com/