Afrirampo

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4...according to our Phil on Wed 15 Nov, 2006.

AFRIRAMPO then... the new CD on Very Friendly simply titled A is an odd beast. The 2 mad Japanese banshees make a right avant garde racket with things starting and stopping. Something don't even start... or at least they don't seem to. Avant garde is/are the word(s) here, along with lunacy that is. This is full of lots of inventive ideas, which I suspect will sound completely incoherent to most folks out there, but you bearded wonders will lap this up like some thirsty cat or something else that is parched. Very interesting!

The girl's career to date has been unprecedented: Since their formation as a duo in 2002, the two sisters of Osaka's Afrirampo have enjoyed something of a meteoric rise through the avant-rock underground, recording with Acid Mothers Temple and touring with Lightning Bolt and Sonic Youth. Though their national origin will surely prompt impulsive comparisons to Melt Banana or early Boredoms, there's something entirely unique going on within Afrirampo's free-form, primal garage-stomps. Afrirampo (the name translates loosely yet accurately to "naked rock") is comprised of guitarist Oni and drummer Pikachu, both of whom add wild, lustful vocals that occasionally reach pitches of near-cartoonish intensity. With this denuded instrumental attack the duo recasts the trashy, minimalist garage-rock of groups like the Oblivians or Cheater Slicks into decidedly more personalized abstract forms, using open-ended song structures and free-spirited improvisation to create a mercurial strain of fuzzed-out thunder. Very Friendly are proud to re-release Afrirampos debut “A” these are the original recordings before being re-issued & remastered on Makoto Kawabatas AMT label in Japan which they originally self financed & released themselves…

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