Palm, by Kukangendai

Palm

by Kukangendai

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Der Ohlsen "Kukangendai somehow manage to sound polyrhythmically more demanding than the most cerebral jazz and prog bands and yet only be peripherally located in both areas.
The extremely experimental rock sound with a strong funk and dub touch is never really comprehensible [...], but paradoxically remains surprisingly easy to listen to thanks to the almost relaxed performance."

full (german) review on my blog:
derohlsen.blogspot.com/2021/03/bandcamp-day-marz-2021-mit-kukangendai.html

Mighttheone The fun is in the composition, raindrops form into a puddle. Parts greater, whole. Favorite track: Mure.

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	1.	Singou 04:23
	2.	Mure 08:09
	3.	Menomae 05:12
	4.	Hi-Vision 05:37
	5.	Sougei 05:24
	6.	Chigaukoto wo Kangaeyo 06:56

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Kukangendai is a kick ass rock trio from Kyoto (Tokyo transplants). When I first hear this band live I was instantly transfixed by their minimalist yet illusory primitive, polyrythmic and structural, memory evoking rock narratives. Their energy is completely and transparently palpable yet handled with restraint of the pleasure of a disciplined form dealing with time and articulation. They are a power trio of bass, drums and guitar but the music they play is as much the limbic system of a forest than it is a geode. They started in 2006. They left Tokyo to Kyoto and started the cult venue Soto (“Outside”) “to listen to music they hadn’t heard yet” a few years later. They collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto last year. They reminded me of James Brown on a heavy binge of Bastro, there’s a deep current of both archaic musical tastes and the human desire for articulating that archaism in there, but you shake your ass and get the shouting in… in a punk basement … 13th century version of Breadwinner, the bare soul version. I’m honoured and proud to work with this tribe, and to count them amongst friends.
-Stephen O’Malley, February 2019, Paris

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released April 26, 2019

Recorded and mixed by Bunsho Nisikawa
Recorded at Soto, Kyoto JP
Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin

Photographs by Mayumi Hosokura
Graphic design by Shun Ishizuka

Kukangendai:
Junya Noguchi – Guitar, Vocal
Keisuke Koyano – Bass
Hideaki Yamada – Drums

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