Clavius Productions presents a night of insane Japanese music and a Spin-approved set of pyrotechnics from Sequence Chair (no joke, check this month's issue):
Sunday, April 1
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com $8, 21+
doors at 9, show at 9:30
Green Milk From the Planet Orange (Japanese psych/prog/space-rock, Beta-Lactam Ring)
Sequence Chair (DC improv tapes/electronics/organ/percussion ensemble, mem. of Kohoutek/Sounds of Kaleidoscope)
Kiiiii (Japanese bizarro femme duo)
The Mantras (DC rawk)
Green Milk From the Planet Orange http://www.green-milk.com The strangely named Green Milk From The Planet Orange is a young Japanese band that perhaps figured they have what it takes to become the next Acid Mothers Temple or Ghost, and they could well be right! This is an impressive domestic debut from GMFTPO (who had a couple of other Japan-only, now out-of-print cd-r releases, a few tracks from which appear here in re-recorded form) and should definitely appeal to the whole Japanese psych lovin' crowd and maybe to yr average indie/post-rockers as well, if they're open to a dose of '70s inspired experimentation: long proggy songs that are plenty weird and varied, both druggily spaced-out and/or noisy and heavy. Yeah, it's a spookily baroque trip, these guys stirring everything into their prog-pot from doleful trumpet to jazzy walking bass to wild psych-guitar soloing and pinging electronic effects. Equally capable of grandiose epic bombast and gentle, slow-paced vocal balladry, GMFTPO glory in proggy changes and this album should certainly be investigated by fans of Ghost's recent opus
Hypnotic Underworld. Of course, the bands that GMFTPO would want to be compared with are undoubtedly their '70s prog-psych, and specifically krautrock, influences: Can, Faust, Agitation Free, Nektar...You can also hear a bunch of '60s west coast psych in there as well (I bet they probably own that Kak album for instance). Yet despite all the "retro" elements, Green Milk still sound young, even a little punk -- which they are, some of 'em being former members of stoner rock/grindcore outfit No Rest For The Dead. Though with GMFTPO they've set aside their metal/punk past, they still draw on it in sorta the same way as Guapo does. Kudos to Beta-Lactam Ring for bringing this our way...and also, after complaining about past Beta-Lactam Ring art/design, we have to give 'em some credit here, they did a nice job with this one. The disc comes housed in a beautiful digipak, with "distressed" graphics giving it the old '70s LP vibe. Real nice all around. (Aquarius Records)
Kiiiii http://kiiiiiii.com/ http://www.myspace.com/kiiiiiiiwillrockyou http://www.shanelester.com/blog/archives/2006/01/kiiiii_live_mov_1.html (MUST SEE VIDEO!)
ut loves.....MICHAEL JACKSON! RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, NEU!, tama, Miho nakayama.....SPAGHETTI, macaron, pho, Cosmetics (Paul & Joe, anna sui...etc) and her dog (named "STOMP")! ut is an actress in TETSUWARI ALBATROSKET.
lakin' the Kiiiiiii loves....Queen! PERRY&KINGSLEY, Jackson 5, Ramones, mute beat, KRAFTWERK, C-C-B, Yoko minamino....Ra-men, TV programs for Children(like SESAME STREET), Stickers and her cat(named "NYAN")! Lakin' is a illustrater, a designer and lyric & songwriter in Kiiiiii.
When we met each other for the first time, we were 12 years old. Since then, we have been special friends like DJ & KIMMY in "FULL HOUSE"!
We are Japanese. We live in TOKYO, Japan. We have no CD. Sorry! We've only 7 inch.
We play songs by......The Wiggles, Chipmunks, Roco's modern life by NIKELODEON, Hooley dooleys, Michael Jackson, and kiiiiiii (Almost all songs are written by Lakin' except for cover songs)!
