OOIOO (Boredoms) - Armonico Hewa

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5...according to our Brett on Thu 05 Nov, 2009.

A new record from the amazing ladies of OOIOO couldn't ever be anything other than a totally blazing start to the week and on Armonico Hewa they continue to outshine head amazing lady Yoshimi P-We's 'main' band, Boredoms, in terms of studio output in the years since Vision Creation Newsun. As ever they take shakin' African rhythms, studio-based dub trickery, western psychedelic influences and that all-important Japanese underground feel, mix them all up with no respect whatsoever for traditional geographic or musical boundaries and come out the other side with what sounds like an ecstatic, sun drenched soundtrack for a harmoniously multicultural world. What more could you want? Available either in a gatefold LP with download code or a rather gorgeous 'ultra-deluxe six panel old-style tip-on mini-LP style sleeve'. Look at all those hyphens, JUST LOOK AT THEM.

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• ‘Armonico Hewa’ continues the rapturous and frenetic
celebration of nature that coursed through the veins of
OOIOO’s 2006 album ‘Taiga’. Where as ‘Taiga’ meant ‘forest’
in Russian and ‘big river’ in Japanese, ‘Armonico Hewa’ is a
combination of words (‘armonico’ is Spanish and ‘hewa’ is
Swahili) that is defined by the band as “air in a harmonious
state”. Like the cross-cultural title, ‘Armonico Hewa’ is a mind-
melting combination of stylistic reference points that can only
be described as some kind of tribal psychedelia that is oddly
spiritual and alarmingly urgent.
• OOIOO leader Yoshimi began her music career in 1986
playing drums in UFO Or Die with Eye and later joined him in
the revolutionary noise-pop experimentalist Boredoms.
• While the group has featured different musicians in the past,
the same all-female four-piece who created ‘Taiga’ is once
again the driving force behind ‘Armonico Hewa’. Longtime
OOIOO guitarist Kayan, bassist Aya and drummer Ai join
Yoshimi to create one of the most enthralling, adventurous
and unique bands in modern music.
• CD version comes packaged in an ultra-deluxe six panel
old-style tip-on mini-LP style gatefold package (custom
made by the printer for this release). The LP version is
limited to 1,000 copies and comes in a gatefold jacket
with free download coupon

Sol * Uda Hah * Irorun * Konjo * Ulda * Polacca *
Kipepeo * O O I A H * Nin Na Yama * Hewa Hewa *
Agacim * Orokai * Honki Ponki