Album Review

Onna – “Onna” – [Holy Mountain]

mickeyslim 1/21/2015 A Library, CD

Sweet, sweet psych! Slow stoner riffage, wailing guitar noise jams, shoegaze-y pop interludes, and seagulls!

Japanese underground “cartoonist” Keizo Miyanishi (his art is hardly cartoonish) brings his words and music out of the crypt. Tracks 1-3 are tracks and outtakes from a 7″ single from 1983. Tracks 6-9 are a live recording from ’83 and feature a pre-Ghost/Boris Michio Kurihara on arrangements and guitar. Tracks 4, 5, and 10 are outtakes from a 2007 album ‘Katawa.’

Awesome guitar noise-psych on top of pulsing and thudding electronic beats. Take a hike up the holy mountain!

As recently heard on KFJC:

6 years ago, Naysayer played Le Chat Noir
7 years ago, Naysayer played Balsam and Ether (From Novalis' Hymn an Die Nacht) (live1983
9 years ago, Pete Dixon played La Chanson
10 years ago, Honey Bear played Esther's Make Up (live 1983)
10 years ago, Dangerous Dan played Esther's Make Up (live 1983)

Album Review

Onna – “Onna” – [Holy Mountain]

As recently heard on KFJC:

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