After slowly building their sound with a pair of critically acclaimed releases, canadianasian collective yamantaka sonic titan hit a magical sweet spot on their ambitious epic dirt. Their best vision to date, dirt combines a dizzying amount of influences native american mythology, buddhism, anime, psych rock, prog metal, and scifi grandeur are just the start and wraps it all around. Yamantaka sonic titan saturns return lyrics genius. Robin arrives first, in a black denim jacket with large patches of crass and. Yamantaka sonic titan hoshi neko lyrics genius lyrics. Photos from this years primavera sound festival by tom spray and morten krogh. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from yamantaka sonic titan at the discogs marketplace. Music profile for yamantaka sonic titan, formed 2007. All the time left in our world i would spend it lying here simple orchard painted black when your wings of light unfurl the first black of. A star over pureland demonstrates this similar dharmaenriched approach best for yamantaka sonic titan the band credits sleeps dopesmoker for their title, tellingly, as their strongest song. Formed in montreal, quebec and currently operating in toronto, ontario, the group was founded by ruby kato attwood and alaska b former members of the defunct montreal noise rock band lesbian fight club and now features ange loft on vocals and percussion, joanna delos reyes on vocals and guitar.
Female vocals, layers of guitar and drums, and tribal beats cross with stoner rock well. Check out seasickness pt1 by yamantaka sonic titan on amazon music. The cats name was named hoshi, which translates to star in english. Oh god, i dont wanna be alone on mercury theres life, planets have happy families now ill ask you again and again where do i go when i sleep. Yamantaka sonic titan was founded in late 2007 by performance artists alaska b and ruby kato attwood, born from the ashes of the late lesbian fight club. After collaborating with pantayo on the score for the severed video game, yamantakasonic titan returned with their third album, dirt, which arrived in 2018. Armed with mixedrace identities, mad illustration skills and a whole pile of homebrew junk electronics, alaska and ruby wrote and performed the first mini nohwave opera in april 2008. Lyrics to seasickness, part 2 by yamantaka sonic titan. It is safe to say there is no other band like yamantakasonic titan on the planet. In a world that is increasingly homogenized, a record like uzu is all the more important for demonstrating how disparate cultural perspectives can merge into something entirely.
And harry would go, yeah man, that crunchy bit was sick. Canadian nohwave collective yamantaka sonic titan have announced a new album. Always a silent girl, she had never learned to speak but daddy, where on earth, safer in the deepest sea time has sapped her strength love h. Yamantaka sonic titan is a nohwave prog collective, a blackandwhite and sometimes red theatre company, an operatic psych cult, rock band and the. Promises made long ago set fire to the earth below we watched these buildings burn ashes mixed with the bricks in the snow but our winter falters these frostbitten. Hoshi neko is simply about one of yamantaka sonic titan s members having a lost cat. Yamantaka sonic titan s third studio album, dirt, is out march 23. Birds haley heynderickx crock pot competition pujol communication jacks tavern demandite acrobatic flesh narc ollie buerger yamantakasonic titan j3s.
Yamantaka sonic titan albums, songs, and news pitchfork. Seasickness pt2 by yamantaka sonic titan on amazon. I had a winged thing kept under lock and key i let it go one day set it free to a burning building i went with wings of fire and the snow was melting set it. One lyrics verse 1 ever wonder what its like to live in america. If you dont like to take drugs, there are plenty of other options, if the numerous cruise critic boards threads on seasickness remedies are any indication. Uzu, the followup to the bands brilliant debut, 2011s ytst, finds the canadian duo.
Explore releases from yamantaka sonic titan at discogs. The best canadian metaldreampop band named after the buddhist god of death ever interviewed in full. Short of driving a bulldozer through the wall, as a preboredoms yamantaka eye once did. With one selftitled ep under their belt and a newly released single, we cant imagine ever getting sick of it. Find yamantaka sonic titan discography, albums and singles on allmusic. Serpent tight around your throat ever wonder what its like to love in america. Yamantaka sonic titan is a canadian experimental music and performance art collective. Pre order dirt on limited edition white vinyl here. The unique and highly theatrical canadian collective yamantaka sonic titan are releasing their new album dirt this friday 323 via paper bag. Yamantaka sonic titan announce new album dirt pitchfork. Theyre a nohwave prog collective, a blackandwhite and sometimes red theatre company, an operatic psych cult, and the speculative prophets of humanitys impending doom.
Find the new lps cover art and tracklist below, and listen to new. Features song lyrics for yamantaka sonic titan s uzu album. Experimental art collective yamantaka sonic titan combine musical and cultural concepts from their complex asian, first nation, and canadian. Yamantaka sonic titan seasickness pt2 video pitchfork. Theres a whole world contained within yamantaka sonic titan.
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Combining the influence of guy maddin, lotte reiniger, kenneth anger, and early atari video games, the piece ends up reflecting an aesthetic fusion consistent with yamantaka sonic titan s. Seasickness pt1 by yamantaka sonic titan on amazon. Yamantaka sonic titan explain the decision to start the album with the aggressive, guitar driven first single, one, as a way to pay tribute to the extended groups indigenous upbringing and. Season 3 episode 305 in trying to describe this show, we did a little research and are just going to have to quote weird canada on this one.
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