I just caught D&N in San Diego, the last stop of the band's tour with Amor de Dias . Was bummed to learn that guitarist extraordinaire Michio Kurihara wasn't able to get into the country. D&N still managed to unfurl a lovely tapestry with the help of Bhob Rainey on soprano sax and Heather MacIntosh on cello. Amor de Dias's Alasdair MacLean and Lupe Nunez-Fernandez filled out a couple of songs. Kurihara's mood-enhancing strokes provide some of the peaks on False Beats and True Hearts . His subtle embellishment of [...]
I wonder if there's an arc of tension in life. You hold more and more of it until the absurdity of worry overwhelms that instinct. I hope so. And I hope it's before I'm 60. I need to get better at letting things roll off me. Or at least learn to physically disconnect from the tensing pulse of the cell phone vibrations and false-bright tones of incoming email. At work anyway. Time to think used to easier to come by. Does music help clear a space? Songs like this sure do. Michio Kurihara [...]
Earlier last month Southern Lord announced a new trio of monthly Boris seven-inch records entitled Japanese Heavy Rock Hits. The first "volume" came out last week, and fans of the band's droning metalscapes will almost assuredly be disappointed considering its official description: The first 73, Volume One, "83, features two newly recorded tracks. On [...]
The Monks/ Complication Artesians/ Trick Bag Jacques Dutronc/ Les Cactus Group Doueh/ Eid For Dakhla Nahid Akhtar/ Toune Kaha Aa Aa Aa Jorge Ben/ Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma) Johnny's Guitar/ Kratae Ros Sereysothea & Seang Vanthy/ Jam 5 Kai Thiet (Wait 5 More Months) [...]
Scion brought the heavy this weekend down in Atlanta, with a huge metal festival that was totally free. While we're still waiting on our own reporters to gather their thoughts and words for us, we thought we'd bring you a video from the festivities. Here is Boris with Michio Kurihara performing "Rainbow" live at the Scion Rock Fest at The Masquerade Music Park in Atlanta, Georgia. You can check out the full festival line-up below the video. Boris With Michio Kurihara - [...]
Pitchfork Media tends to be frowned upon by much of the metal community as the spawning ground of many of the hipster trends that eventually make their way into our culture. However, the truth is that they have earned their title as music snobs because they generally know what the fuck they are talking [...]
Michio Kurihara is a Japanese guitarist who rose to fame in his native land with the Neo-Psychedelic band White Heaven. He went on to join the influential psych/folk group Ghost in 1994 and eventually caught the attention of Damon and Naomi. who asked him to play on their 2000 world tour. He has also played along side of noise-rockers/Pitchfork darlings, Boris. His 2005 solo debut, Sunset Notes, is a mix of in-your-face psych guitars and nuanced textural folk. It was recently released for the first [...]
We only danced for a minute or two But then she stuck close to me the whole night through Can I be fallin' in love She's everything I've been dreamin' of I walked her home and she held my hand I knew it couldn't be just a one-night stand So I asked to see her next week and she told me I could (I asked to see her and she told me I could) Somethin' tells me I'm into something good - Herman's Hermits ( lyrics ) [...]
Here's some music for yr face. ミドリ // ドーピング☆ノイズノ イズキッス I randomly picked this disc up in a used record store in Tokyo. It had a really cool cover. Here is their website if you want to investigate more. Michio Kurihara // Pendulum on a G-String: The Last Cicada ( Sunset Notes , 2005) (via musicversity ) Tokyo psyche-rock guitarist's solo album -known for the collab with Boris. [...]
Michio Kurihara - Pendulum on a G-String: The Last Cicada (20-20-20 2007, Pedal 2005) Michio Kurihara – Sunset Notes / 20-20-20 , originally Pedal 2005 Let's all face it, Boris with Michio Kurihara's Rainbow is a phenomenal record that will be making a hell of an argument come December when those omniscient year-end lists start stirring. Not only did it prove how multi-dimensional ear-damaging Japanese trio Boris truly is as they seemingly reach their full potential, but also acted as an American coming out party [...]
What is that thing? That (my friends) is a cicada and right now in the Chicago area they are everywhere . There are places (such as where the pictures here were taken) that you can find up to 1.5 million of these insects per acre. (1.5 million!) Luckily for us here in northern Illinois, these cicadas are of the genus of 17 year periodical cicadas of eastern North America called magicicadas . They are often called the "seventeen-year locust", but they are not locusts. [...]
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