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Go Kurosawa

Soft Shakes

The first solo album by Go Kurosawa—head of Guruguru Brain and drummer of Kikagaku Moyo. This is Go jamming by/with himself. Best suited for dancing alone in your room, hanging outside, and doing something for the first time.

Go Kurosawa is multi-instrumentalist, producer, and co-founder of the independent label Guruguru Brain. Best known as drummer of Kikagaku Moyo, Go has spent the past decade building bridges between east and west, sound and silence, rock and ritual. soft shakes is something different—his first solo album, made entirely by himself, and made mostly for fun.

Go has a rare kind of musical instinct: he can play anything, hears everything, and still doesn’t take himself too seriously. For a long time, solo music wasn’t even part of the plan—after years in a band, it felt strange. Music, to him, was something to do together. Over time—while traveling, collecting instruments, and eventually setting up Guruguru Brain studio in Rotterdam—he started jamming alone. Slowly, it grew.

What comes is playful, layered, rhythmic, and surprising. Just like Go.

TRACK LISTING

Moon Please
Sada No Umi
Soredesho
Green Thing
Autowalk
Jungle Cooking
Tanaka Rice
Cloud Rock G

Kikagaku Moyo

Kikagaku Moyo - 2023 Repress

    The name means GEOMETRIC PATTERNS in Japanese. This Tokyo band started channeling the spirits of the Japanese psychedelic underground in the summer of 2012, quickly developing the sound of ‘60s psychedelia to a breathtaking degree. Their debut album exerts an elemental power. Enlivening their sound with sitars, percussive drums, theremins, wind instruments and ethereal vocals, the band manages to sound powerfully spacious and lazily serene all at once. Their songs can be light as air, or heavy as earth. Many evolve out of intense experiences of engagement with the natural world. The album’s first track, “Can You Imagine Nothing?” was written over a night spent jamming on a suspended footbridge in remote mountains.

    As the song progressed the bridge began to sway, making band members feel as though they were floating weightless in midair. Kikagaku Moyo started in the summer of 2012 busking on the streets of Tokyo. Though the band started as a free musiccollective, it quickly evolved into a tight group of multiinstrumentalists. Kikagaku Moyo call their sound psychedelicic because it encompasses a broad spectrum of influence. Their music incorporates elements of classical Indian music, Krautrock, Traditional Folk, and 70s Rock. Most importantly their music is about freedom of the mind and body and building a bridge between the supernatural and the present. Improvisation is a key element to their sound.

    TRACK LISTING

    A1 Can You Imagine Nothing? 
    A2 Zo No Senaka 
    A3 Tree Smoke 
    B1 Lazy Stoned Monk
    B2 Dawn

    Kikagaku Moyo

    Forest Of Lost Children - 2023 Repress

      Kikagaku Moyo is the musical union between five free spirits. Go Kurosawa (drums, Vocals) and Tomo Katsurada (Guitar, Vocals) formed the band in 2012 as a free artist’s collective. They met Kotsuguy (Bass) while he was recording noise from vending machines and Akira (Guitar) through their university. Ryu Kurosawa had been studying Sitar in India, upon returning home he found the perfect outlet for his practice.

      Since 2013 the band has released three full lengths, an EP, and several singles. They have toured Australia, the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan extensively. Kikagaku Moyo love to connect with people through performing, whether they are playing in a barn deep in a Swedish forest, on a desolate Mediterranean beach, or beside a sleepy river at 2014’s Levitation Fest they bring out the magic in everyone present.

      Their delicate use of melody and soft vocal harmonies contrast seamlessly with fuzzed out sitar riffs and feedback. To Kikagaku Moyo a song is like a breath of wind through the leaves or a fish jumping from the water. Their music is a conversation—sometimes delicate and tender other times explosive, but always human and always changing.


      TRACK LISTING

      Semicircle
      Kodama
      Smoke And Mirrors
      Streets Of Calcutta
      Hem
      White Moon

      Kikagaku Moyo

      Masana Temples - 2023 Repress

        Kikagaku Moyo started in the summer of 2012 busking on the streets of Tokyo. Though the band started as a free music collective, it quickly evolved into a tight group of multi-instrumentalists. Kikagaku Moyo call their sound psychedelic because it encompasses a broad spectrum of influence. Their music incorporates elements of classical Indian music, Krautrock, Traditional Folk, and 70s Rock. Most importantly their music is about freedom of the mind and body and building a bridge between the supernatural and the present. Improvisation is a key element to their sound.

        The shifting dimensions of Masana Temples, fourth album from psychedelic explorers Kikagaku Moyo,are informed by various experiences the band had with traveling through life together, ranging from the months spent on tour to making a pilgrimage to Lisbon to record the album with jazz musician Bruno Pernadas. The band sought out Pernadas both out of admiration for his music and in an intentional move to work with a producer who came from a wildly different background. With Masana Temples, the band wanted to challenge their own concepts of what psychedelic music could be. Elements of both the attentive folk and wild-eyed rocking sides of the band are still intact throughout, but they’re sharper and more defined.

        More than the literal interpretation of being on a journey, the album’s always changing sonic panorama reflects the spiritual connection of the band moving through this all together. Life for a traveling band is a series of constant metamorphoses, with languages, cultures, climates and vibes changing with each new town. The only constant for Kikagaku Moyo throughout their travels were the five band members always together moving through it all, but each of them taking everything in from very different perspectives. Inspecting the harmonies and disparities between these perspectives, the group reflects the emotional impact of their nomadic paths. The music is the product of time spent in motion and all of the bending mindsets that come with it.


        TRACK LISTING

        1. Entrance
        2. Dripping Sun
        3. Nazo Nazo
        4. Fluffy Kosmisch
        5. Nana
        6. Nana
        7. Orange Peel
        8. Amayadori
        9. Gatherings
        10. Blanket Song


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