Rainbow Destroyer Blog

Labels: Japan, Live, LIVE HOUSE, Magical Mistakes, Osaka

long time no see internet.
various things are in the works.
fitness has a show in pomona at the da gallery on the 28th. see more info at our real website. it should be good.
i have a show in osaka on april 5th. you can likewise see more info at our real website. that should also hopefully be good.
will look something like this:
but only if you are suspended sideways or something. i guess you should consider drinking heavily if you want it to look at all similar. dxm or something crazy.

anyways, that show is with a whole lot of people and artists i like. namely Lemon's Chair. see video here:

in other news, magical mistakes/death by panda has a nine song album done spanning forty minutes. i am sitting on it before release, and am considering various available options regarding the medium it could potentially be distributed in. and i also have another 20-35 minute psychedelia/drum set put together for live performance. it's too different things though, and the sound/song writing is quite a bit different. the finished album is more pop/psych/electronic and the performance set is more steve reich meets anticon with more drums.

stuff that's been inspiring me lately: lemon's chair, watchman (ex-melt banana, also drummer of lemon's chair), various hip hop things introduced to me by my DJ friend Kawakami, beach boys, weird time signatures, drinking occasionally, getting nostalgic for the few things i miss about my life in southern california (they are few but important), the new animal collective release.
by the way that album is perfect beyond belief. i was kinda pissed it's so good since i was trying to make a nice sounding album in the midst of my hearing merriweather post pavillion for the first time. my non-verbal response was something along the lines of 'fucking christ why did they develop such a perfect aesthetic? now i have to try doing something else.'

in other news; here's an artist i am doing some work with. http://www.myspace.com/monsieurmatthew wolveskin would be the track. you'll hear music contributions from me. Matthew put some vocals and added some effects here and there. let me know what you think of the aesthetic. i'm putting more tracks together for this project in my spare time, and your input could affect where i take the aesthetic.

Labels: animal collective, beach boys, collaboration, dA gallery, Fitness, Lemon's Chair, Live, LIVE HOUSE, Magical Mistakes, matthew, Melt banana, Osaka, pomona, PREVIOUSLY DEATH BY PANDA, video, watchman

I'm not gonna have a good introductory narrative to tell this story. I'm just going to put it out there. When I saw Nagisa ni Te yesterday night, it was only the guy (Shibayama) and his bassist friend. His girlfriend/drummer/vocalist wasn't playing. I have no idea why. He didn't offer any explanation either. So from the start I was already a bit devastated. I watched the show in a bittersweet drunken stupor. But I'll continue with my story: Shibayama, the male vocalist guitar god in Nagisa ni Te, is just that--he's fucking incredible. You can catch hints of the raging psychedellia couped up within this man on their records, but the live setting really showcases the great range of guitar delay/distortion/noise freakouts juxtaposed with delicate vocal arrangements.
I should also note that Shibayama does a great job at playing the tortured artist, but in a particularly Japanese way. He's this aging musician, probably in his mid-40s but he's got this perfect look on his face, like an older guy reflecting on how bittersweet and lonely his life has been. It felt like this emotion carried him away so much that he had trouble playing the songs at times. Like he definitely just fucked one song up and stopped playing, panting and out of breath and said "gomennasai" like five times while staring at the ground with this timeless eye-glimmer half-smile half-suicidal break down. It was absolutely beautiful.



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So Nagisa ni Te is playing at Namba Bears (a live house run by ex-boredoms) on November 7. I'm going to go to that. Maybe girlfriend/drummer Takeda will be there. God I hope so.






Other music I saw last night... let's see:
三輪二郎といまから山のぼり/ぱぱぼっくす/
前野健太とDAVIDBOWIEたち/OA~さんましめそば

ぱぱぼっくす: Girl and guy
前野健太とDAVIDBOWIEたち: This guy sang a great song about "anata ga koibito ni naritai" (i want you to be my lover) but it had enough soul to it so i got him to give me a free CD sampler with that song on it.

Labels: Live, LIVE HOUSE, Musica Japonica, Nagisa Ni Te, OA~さんましめそば, Osaka, ぱぱぼっくす, 三輪二郎といまから山のぼり, 前野健太とDAVIDBOWIEたち

This Sunday I went over to Club Quattro in Shinsaibashi in Osaka and saw Sparta Locals, all by my lonesome self. Nonetheless, the concert was amazing, the whiskey was enjoyable and the general crowd/band dynamic was admirable. There is a certain sense of organization and regimentation that the Japanese appreciate much more than we do in America. Concerts generally start at 6 or 7 PM and lateness is not tolerated. The crowd cheers when appropriate and shuts up when appropriate also. This is in stark contrast to any concert I've seen in America, where drunken yells of "LOUDER!" often ruin the most beautiful moments of songs.
Here's my concert schedule for the upcoming few months. Additions are being made every few days, so it's still a tad incomplete.
October 3 OGRE YOU ASSHOLE at Shangri La
October 11 NAGISA NI TE at Musica Japonica
November 1 AFURIRANPO AND SQUIAMOTO, along with a member of Bufallo Daughter at Sound Channel
November 27 POLYSICS at Namba Hatch
December 12 ZAZEN BOYS at Namba Hatch
December 14 BORIS in Tokyo (doubt I'll make it to this one)

That's my must see list. I also have some other random plans here and there to go to whatever livehouses (clubs) whenever I'm bored. Probably go to Musica Japonica this weekend. A few bands are playing. Could be fun.

Labels: Afuriranpo, Boris, LIVE HOUSE, Nagisa Ni Te, Ogre You Asshole, Polysics, Sparta Locals, Squiamoto, Zazen Boys