NEW JAPANCAKES VIDEO OUT TODAY!! CHECK IT OUT HERE:
http://stereogum.com/archives/video/new-japancakes-feat-orenda-fink-video---behind-the_078232.html
Japancakes formed in Athens, Georgia in 1996, and since then have garnered national and international attention for their unique and woozy brand of spaced-out instrumental music. The band has never been one to shy away from plumbing the depths nor scaling the upper ethers of melody and beauty. The creation of their singular soundscapes encompasses widely varied approaches. Japancakes are intent on emerging from their musical space cloaked in pure sound. The music is direct. Whereas the listener might suspect that the absence of vocals would leave some sort of void, Japancakes deftly negate that suspicion by turning that same so-called absence into an unlimited mesh of listener interface; every moment of a Japancakes song is an opportunity for true listener interactivity.
Japancakes have a recorded output comprised of 7 releases. Engineering on all titles was handled by Athens’ own Andy Baker, and recorded at Athens’ Chase Park Transduction or at Andy Baker’s Bakery studio. The band’s first three efforts were released via the Kindercore imprint: “If I Could See Dallas”(1999), the “Down the Elements” EP(2000), and “The Sleepy Strange” (2001). An “extended EP”, “Belmondo,” was released on the band’s current label, Darla Records, in 2002. 2004 saw the release of “Waking Hours” on the Athens-based WARM Recordings label. Japancakes would realign themselves with Darla Records in 2007 for that year’s back-to-back full-lengths, “Giving Machines”, and a song-by-song interpretation/re-interpretation of My Bloody Valentine’s “Loveless.” The band’s highly acclaimed first three records, long out of print, were reissued on Darla in February 2008. Thanks for listening and keeping in touch....................
Later,
Japancakes
I'm pleased to tell you that the video for your CELESTIAL "Behind The Mountains" will be featured, during these days, in COCTEAULAB - Lima Videosónica.
On a constant quest for good music to play for my students ( I teach hatha yoga ) -- I had the good fortune to stumble across a thread which mentioned your music~ I hopped on itunes right away and just love it... So from me and my little yoga kula~ Thank You...Shanti, Om!
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