In the realm of longer songs, there can be a lot of repetition and scattered sound, or there are those which take you on a journey like “Marquee Moon” by Television and “Youth of America” by Wipers. Now there’s Barbican Estate’s recently released “White Jazz,” a wonderfully structured jammer that smoothly brings an ethereal sound all the way through. To play that way for that long takes strong musicianship and these 3 artists effortlessly execute 8 minutes of psychedelic post punk noise. Japan has always been home to some of the greatest musical acts and artists, and Barbican Estate is one that can carry on the legacy. They’ve only been releasing music for a short while, and this is a tremendous start to hopefully a long time making music. We can’t wait to hear what’s next. If they had a 20 minute track, I’d be excited to listen. See what I mean and tune into “White Jazz”.
Barbican Estate are Kazuki Toneri (Guitar, Sitar), Miri (Bass, Vox) and Koh Hamada (Drums, Percussion).
-Alyssa Holland
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Three-piece band formed in 2019 by Kazuki Toneri (Gt, Sitar), Miri (Ba, Vo) and Koh Hamada (Dr, Percussion).
All members having a strong interest for various music, movies and all sort of arts, their musical world is based not only on movements such as psychedelic rock, experimental or noise music, but also greatly influenced by diverse historical artistic contexts like Allen Ginsberg's Beat Generation literature, Romantic writers such as William Blake, Greek mythology and oriental philosophy.
Often performing at venues around Tokyo, they were also selected to support the Japanese tour of the Melbourne-based post-punk band No Sister in November 2019.
In March 2020, they dropped their 1st EP "Rhyming Slang", which was released on cassette tape as a limited edition and sold at record stores around Japan.The same month, they sold out their first event "TIDE" at the venue MANDALA in Tokyo.
Coupled with a bleak, gloomy universe, their music interweaves elements of solidity and destruction, leading them to be described as "dark psychedelic".
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