TEKE::TEKE – Hagata (CD)
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Montreal's TEKE::TEKE built their sound around the kayo kyoku and Group Sounds records of 1960s and 70s Japan, filtering that vintage Japanese rock and pop lineage through a genuinely multicultural band that spans Canadian, Japanese, and global influences. Hagata, their second full-length for Kill Rock Stars, finds them pushing deeper into that restless, shape-shifting territory, where melody and dissonance chase each other through arrangements that never quite settle.
From the tender-hearted “Jinzou Maria” to the rumbling and raucous “Yurei Zanmai”, the songs of Hagata bear an eerie yet somehow familiar sensation. Japanese pop tones, Serge Gainsbourg grandeur, folk whisper, and Brazilian surf rock all mix into the psychedelic stew. Blending past and present, from Canada to Japan, multiple lives lived at once, each track carries a sense of change, impact, of having been marked in an intimate way. And yet the force behind that marking is always just out of grasp, a wisp, a ghost, an energy, a spirit that compels you to keep reaching.
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UPC: 759656074629
Label: Kill Rock Stars
Release Date: 6.9.23
Format: CD