Prince, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, The Cure, Lee Perry, Horace Andy, King Tubby, Scientist, Mad Professor, CAN, Kraftwerk, Steely Dan, Depeche Mode, DAF, Divine, Sisters of Mercy, Quasimoto, MF Doom, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Throbbing Gristle, Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band, The Smiths, XTC, Booker Little, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Elvis Costello, Bill Hicks, Peter Cook, Serge Gainsbourg, Devo, R.E.M., Wilco, Death Cab For Cutie, Nirvana, Yes, King Crimson, Camberwell Now, Guernica, Giorgio Moroder, Patrick Cowley, John Oswald, Residents, Arthur Russell, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Faust, Max Roach, Bobby Hutcherson, Magazine, UB40, The Specials, Madness, Material, Stereolab, Massive Attack, Portishead, Tindersticks, pumping Italo, dusty European folk records, early house, funk and the need to dance...
Sounds Like
At the moment, mutant electro-blues, melancholy psychedelic disco, pumping gothic exercise music, ambient jazz nightmares. Subject to change at any time.
Abikyokan formed around the core trio of Jacob Arntson (Seattle, USA), Grant McGaheran (Sheffield, UK) and Tatsumi Ochiai (Chiba, Japan) in Tokyo in 2004.
The band pool a wide variety of influences to create a new avant-pop sound. Live, the band see no song as ever finished, and improvise on their music without boundaries.
The band has no leader, each member plays a variety of instruments and guest musicians often join the band onstage. Together with DJing, producing and remixing, the members of Abikyokan see the band as an outlet for musical energy and a chance to shake up a music scene they feel is intensely dull and cliched.
2006's Zuper album saw the band fusing free jazz and blues influences with a love of Italo disco and machine funk. Novaya Zemyla, the band's latest, takes hip hop, African pop and Japanese enka into the mix.
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