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Taigaa! is a pack of wolves living in a cave in brooklyn, ny.

And for now you can get our brand spanking newest album "Off" from SnoCap on myspace....and you can buy our first album "Taigaa!" at any of these fine stores: Brooklyn, NY SoundFix (Bedford / N. 11th), Passout Records (Grand / Berry), Cinders Gallery (Havemeyer / Hope), Marquis Records (Grand / Roebling). New York, NY Other Music, Printed Matter (10th Ave & 21st St) San Fran, CA Aquarius Records (Valencia), Ameoba Records (Haight) LA, CA Sea Level Records (Echo Park) Portland, OR In Other Words Books

"Off" Review from Wears the Trousers Magazine

It’s a rare pleasure to find a band with a sound that is both truly original and entirely unconcerned with ‘fitting in’, a band on a quest totally immune to musical plagiarism and fame-hungry, money-shot compromise. Cue Taigaa!, a Brooklyn trio featuring G Wolf on vocals, fellow ex Butterknife Krush-er K.O.K.O on violin and keyboard, and Dusty Gold of More Teeth on drums. The band took their name from the word ‘taiga’, a vast region of coniferous forests just below the Arctic tundra and the largest terrestrial biome in the world. For readers unaccustomed to geographic terminology, a biome is essentially another word for ecosystem, and this organic, living language characterises Taigaa!’s music perfectly. Off is like nothing I’ve ever heard before, in the best possible way.

While they may echo the vocals of certain someones here and nod to certain cultural touchstones there, the cohesive sound captured on Off is Taigaa!’s own. Their skill lies not only in the sheer primal strength of their music, but also the art of blending sounds and styles into staggering, soul-waking combinations. Layering natural instruments, such as bongo drums and rattles, with electric keyboard melodies, the trio create a fantastic, jarring amalgamation.

Opening track ‘Meanwhile’ teams a weeping violin with an almost acid jazz drum rhythm, while ‘In The Decay’ melds jazzy trumpets with a hip-snaking African drum beat. G Wolf’s voice pours over every song with a mournful yet fiery strength – occasionally sounding a bit like Amanda Palmer – a perfect lead for the beating tribal rhythms that map out the living landscape of the album. Her narrative on the relentless, danceable electro melody of ‘Shark & Tiger’ weaves like an eerie Aesop’s fable, while the shamanistic chanting on ‘Off Off’ is unnaturally perfect when juxtaposed with an Armenian folk-inspired string melody.

Taigaa! clearly draw on world music styles but deconstruct and reinvent them with a modern aesthetic, adding dance-based time signatures and grunge-like beat patterns. The frequent animal imagery, in both lyrical content and song titles, heightens the organic, pulsing energy of the album to a point where the music itself seems to stalk and weep and devour. Off seems to actually throb and pulse like a heart - sinister and sorrowful, yet incandescent with primal force. With this sophomore effort, Taigaa! have daubed themselves out with the tribal markings of innovators: unique, disconcerting and deliciously strange---Charlotte Richardson Andrews