AKASAKA and the romantic artful raging drama of "Beat Of The Sun"

 

"I'll listen if you want me to / But what I hear is a fear that I outgrew / You go, I'll be right through / Taking a moment to enjoy the view..."

The artful raging drama of "Beat Of The Sun" by AKASAKA, a project started in Brooklyn, New York this year (2024) by Pasquin Mariani reminds me of the fertile DIY garage rock community in Southern California circa 2000's (maybe more specifically 2012). The times, places might feel different for you but the emotional urgency, the unfettered raw nature, subversion and romance holding hands is what I am hearing, feeling listening to this. The odd, or maybe not so odd thing is that I also feel a 90's post grunge thing here and even an early 80's indie rock atmosphere and like a cross generational amalgam of Dinosaur Jr, Pearl Jam, The Plimsouls and 90's American college radio aesthetics, muscular, pained, sweaty and poetically bruised but always looking for hope, for people being better in a future landscape. 

I dig it. 

"And we go to the beat of the sun
Slowly take a step and watch you run
You'll be out on your feet and alone someday
With nothing left to say"

[AKASAKA is a project started in Brooklyn, New York in 2024 by Pasquin Mariani. It's influenced by bands of the 90's and 2000's, like Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, REM, Wipers.]

-Robb Donker Curtius 

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://soundcloud.com/akasakaplaza/beat-of-the-sun/s-FNe8zgdXfk2

https://akasaka.bandcamp.com/track/beat-of-the-sun

https://open.spotify.com/track/3Xmxl7XBgttjvOiPIM1fhE


AKASAKA is a project started in Brooklyn, New York in 2024 by Pasquin Mariani. It's influenced by bands of the 90's and 2000's, like Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, REM, Wipers.

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