UPDATE FOR SUMMER 2009 - We are currently in the studio working on a new record. We'll keep you all posted on our progress. Looks like we'll post some rough mixes on our Myspace page in the coming months. Keep your ears open. Let us know if you want to be on our email list to get alerts about shows and when the new CD will be out. Send a note here and we'll add you! Stay tuned...
And now for a little history...
Formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1988, Nikki Meets the Hibachi has toured the southeast, bringing their plaintive acoustic pop to clubs, colleges, coffeehouses, and listening rooms. Fortune smiled on these folkies, and Nikki Meets the Hibachi has had the opportunity to share the stage with some of the best musicians of the past few decades: Indigo Girls, The Violent Femmes, Ferron, Widespread Panic, Dillion Fence, and more. Recently regrouped after a decade-long hiatus, Elaine Tola and John Gillespie have a crop of new songs, a percussionist (Arturo Velasquez), and a CD recorded by veteran producer and North Carolina legend, John Plymale.
"On Back Around, Tola and Gillespie lean in closer to the songs than ever before, and—when the song is right, as with the title track or "Gettysburg"—the results can be compelling. Hibachi nestles big, open chords from acoustic guitars and a dashing acoustic lead into unorthodox, world-borne meters, and Tola and Gillespie drive their subjects to glory. Indeed, as vocalists, they're as well paired as they were 15 years ago, if not more so: There's an even warmer timbre to their complex harmonies, Gillespie floating over and below Tola's closing refrain on "Come Back Around." Percussionist Arturo Velasquez, who wasn't on The Bluest Sky, works perfectly within his surrounding, accenting instead of overtaking, holding the easel as the voices paint the picture."
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hooray you found me! you guys are great. really, really enjoyed yr show. unfortunately i'll be out of town this weekend so i won't catch you at the cave on saturday, but break a leg and i'll catch you next time around! :)
Glad you liked the show this weekend! It was great seeing you there. So far, it looks like we raised over $20,000 for the CF Foundation. Woo Hoo! Thanks for your support!
Don't forget about The Pressure Boys reunion concerts this weekend at the Cat's Cradle. Friday, May 2nd is sold out but there are tickets available for the Sat. May 3rd show. All proceeds go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
