Blackhawks // Blackhawks Comprised of members who also plays in bigger, more active bands, Blackhawks always seemed like more of a project that was done for fun more than anything else. Featuring Dan Svizeny ( Cough Cool , Nude Beach [no, not that Nude Beach ]), Yohsuke Araki ( BAnanas Symphony , The Interest Group ), and Adam Magerman ( Nude Beach ); the band [...]
- Aşk yüzünden bu adam böyle olmuş! Bu adamın nesi var? Sizin gibi bir adam, diyemezsiniz, gören göz klavuz istemez: Adam köpeği ile konuşuyor be birader! Halbuki biz, birçok insanın eşya ile, duvarlarla, kendi hayalleriyle, yataklarıyla, aynalarla, kiminin kendi kravatıyla; genç kızların sandıktaki çeyizleriyle, genç erkek çocukların kendi vücutlarıyla konuştuklarını işitir, biliriz. Şairlerin yıldızlar, rüzgarlar, meşhul kadınlar, göller, uzak memleketler, iki bin metreden geçen bulutlar, muhacir kuşlarla; balıkçıların [...]
Yohsuke Araki is one to chase the psychedelic pop muse wherever it may lead. After generating a lot of buzz in Philly's short-lived Blackhawks, and still going strong with his synth pop-oriented project Bananas Symphony, Araki is revisiting the paisley-draped world in his new outfit, The Interest Group. Listen below to its cover of "The ... Continue reading
It's been a while since we've heard from BAnana Symphony . Check out a new sound and deep groove called "Hollywood (Is It Mine)" below. Enjoy!
In The Dark by Caprice Syndicate Caprice Syndicate // “In the Dark” I noticed a scurry of activity on BAnanas Symphony ’s Tumblr site today (followed suit by several Cough Cool related blogs) surrounding this track “In the Dark”. Last time this sort of thing happened we were gifted that amazing Poppers track . So right away I knew it was in my best interest to check out this new jammy jam. [...]
Poppers // “Do You Like TV?” Wow wow wow. Poppers is a new band (supergroup?) featuring members of Birthdays , BAnanas Symphony , Cough Cool , Nude Beach and BlackHawks . As if all these dudes’ bands weren’t already interconnected enough… If there was a way for a seedy night club to be housed in a cave, then this is what the live band would sound [...]
Philadelphia wunderkind Yohsuke Araki is quite a regular on these pages (last time only yesterday with his wonderful band Blackhawks ), and in fact we got every reason to feature the works of this baby genius on a regular basis. That's why we're very proud tonight to announce the first proper release by Yohsuke's long-time solo project BAnanas Symphony : Two Sided is mostly a gathering of some of his finest gems that have already made some well-deserved blog rounds before, but above all it is the long-overdue re-assurance of the guy's immense musical [...]
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Feb 26, 2011, 1:14pm
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BAnanas Symphony - Salty Yohsuke's posted some new ultrajams to his BAnanas Symphony bandcamp , easily putting what I recorded last night to shame
BAnanas Symphony // Salty There are those times when you stumble across something so unbelievably good that you just wanna hug it and squeeze it and rub it all over your body. Well, BAnanas Symphony ’s newest single, Salty is one of those things (for me at least). Hailing from good old Fishtown in Philadelphia, BAnanas Symphony crafts some lush psych rock that has left me begging for more. On the track “Salty” the deep acoustic guitars establish such a welcoming environment. It’s like they’re spinning a giant [...]
As the holiday season looms closer and we wind down the blog for the rest of the year, what a better way to celebrate than with a festive post of Christmas music. We've compiled a pretty hefty list of Christmas music for you to download, burn, and crank up around the fireplace (or a shut down airport if you're really unlucky) while you celebrate the season. This is our next to last post of 2010, with our Top 25 post coming next week. We here at The POP! Stereo want to say thanks to everyone who [...]
Mondays are for eating ice cream even though it's too cold out. BAnanas Symphony - 'Holidaze' (that capital A is not a typo btw) King Koyote - 'Ghouls' Mutual Friends - 'Memory Lane' Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra's - 'Gift Basket'
My admired pal Yohsuke Araki aka BAnanas Symphony dropped his fresh tune Held Up into several delighted mailboxes yesterday, and before I could finish some lines about a song that I think is this limitless talent 's most surprising and exciting effort to date, our favorite FMLY guy Noah stepped in and said everything I wanted to say, only in better words. So suffice it to add that I can't get enough of this flickering piece that takes more than one turn during its five minute forty second course, consciousness-altering sounds popping up [...]
Nov 2, 2010, 4:31pm Fmly
BAnanas Symphony - Held Up Baby homie Yohsuke of Blackhawks fame and BAnanas Symphony fortune just sent over the most brainmelting nude photo of that sweet ass with this mysterious tune attached. So after printing out the jpeg and having my way with it I thought I'd listen to the jam and holy shiiiiiit it's like porn pop for the age of mechanical reproduction! Walking on broken glass has its advantages, because even though it attentively hurts you're always looking for what's about to happen. BAnanas Symphony jams are always [...]
BAnanas Symphony är Yohsuke Araki, till vardags medlem i Philly-trion Blackhawks , och hans nya experimentella psych-pärla Held up landade nyss i inkorgen, vilken härmed gladeligen vidarebefordras BAnanas Symphony - Held up
BAnanas Symphony released their first EP back in July, if you recall, titled Dumb Teenage Love that consisted of two pleasing, scaled-back chill-wave jams. After that, a three song EP release called Vino , that takes yet another angle at the genre, an almost sophisticated one. And lastly, just today, an EP Wars was posted. Three tracks that do everything but sound cohesive with the previous two releases. Almost entirely acoustic, each heavily instrumental track fades perfectly into the next as if there were only [...]
After the splendid tune Vino that Yohsuke had sent over last week , our most adored man behind the psych pop project BAnanas Symphony has put a short EP with the same name on his bandcamp today. And with the new tracks, things start to get a little more demanding - To Love Somebody is a very experimental approach that only tentatively unfolds itself to become a very smooth pop gem for a short amount of time before it crumbles away again into a congregation of squeaks and chirrs. Tempting. [...]
Our favourite Philly boy Yohsuke Araki aka recently introduced BAnanas Symphony returns to our realms with yet another dream pop gem, slightly more experimental than before but without giving up a single bit of beauty, Vino subtly meanders along until all of a sudden, you realize that its stupendous instrumentation and melody have just completely disarrayed you. We surrender. BAnanas Symphony - Vino
BAnanas Symphony is the solo project of Philadelphia's Yohsuke Araki who is otherwise a member of the wonderful psych pop outfit Blackhawks which is somehow also entangled in that certain scene around Dan Svizeny's Cough Cool and Nude Beach . Now until someone finds the time to explain this nuclear fusion of mind-boggling talent and creativity to me in more detail, suffice it to say that BAnanas Symphony's new tunes Dumb Teenage Love and It's Coming Around are both dream pop in the most intriguing way, full of longing and [...]
Jul 7, 2010, 8:06pm Fmly
We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is [...]
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