KIKAGAKU MOYO

KIKAGAKU MOYO just announced they were breaking up the band last month after a ten year run. A five piece out of Japan they released five studio albums and two Eps. This one from 2016 is right in the middle, album number three and the one that most represents their sound. I don't use words like wonderful, delightful or lovely in real life unless sarcastically so I don't use them in my reviews but man these words fit this album. A lot of acoustic guitar, sitar and soft vocals. I usually would stay away from an album described this way but you have to hear this. Check out any one of these three tracks "Green Sugar", "Silver Owl" or "Trad" my top three and the longest ones on the album as well.

Their name means Geometric Patterns which they all seemed to get when they closed their eyes after jamming from midnight to 6am and collapsing in exhaustion. These guys are serious musicians in fact the sitar player moved to India for a while to learn his craft. I love this quote "Our Psychedelic doesn't come from the hippy scene, it's in nature, it's in the chants you hear at the temple, watching people board the train every day? That's psychedelic." I would love the hang out with these five long hairs in fact I just got some Tangerine Dream weed I would love to share with you guys down on the beach here in Canada. They really seem like a great group of guys with so many pictures of them smiling and having a good time.

While the music is fairly mellow and trippy we do get some power here and there with distorted guitars. No keyboards but the guitars create atmosphere at times. I wished I'd picked up more of their music, they just released their final studio album this year barring a come back down the road. Damo's is the only other review on here of their first release in 2013 an EP that the band says was more like a demo. They had been gigging with Americans MOON DUO at the time who told them they needed to record something other wise they are going to go no where so they did. This band has toured the World and has sold some albums accomplishing all they set out to do and more. Congrats guys!

Oh what's happening, wonder why KIKAGAKU MOYO have played stuffs easy to understand.

I've got blown by their weird Kraut-ish Oriental edges when I listened to their first single for the first time. The unrefined, non-united atmospheric aggression might squeeze something comfortable into my brain. No objection to say they play acid folk with strong Kosmische initiation upon this EP indeed, but simultaneously I guess they might grab more of folksy acidity with mainstream-y tips.

Fantastic wet, foggy airsound has been created by gracious female voices (sensual, dangerous traps in a sense) based upon specific ethnic freakout psychic folksy agents launched with sitar, theremin, and deep guitars, percussive drums. Quite dreamy especially for acid folk freaks on the psychedelic ground like me. On the contrary, smooth and simple spherical sound body, that can be digested easily in general, should not satisfy Krautrock adherents enough, sad to say.

Oh yes let me say the fourth track "Lazy Stoned Monk" (what a fascinating title!) has completely reminded me eccentricity of 'real Kosmischemuzik' ... quiet but explosive underground beats based upon bubbled synth lesions / mellow guitar riffs, and weird obscurity with dark matter can be called as surrealistic Geometry methinks. Not simply lazy but powerful with strong intention to invade my mind space. This enthusiasm is what I want really.

Got unified compactly upon a part, but such a meditative wave can make us dream that we can grab more hypnotic, more mysterious, more addictive smoke agents particularly on stage. Amazing.