Tuesday, December 29, 2009

OOIOO

I’ve got a review of OOIOO’s last album Arminco Hewa up now at Blurt.
Fourteen years and six albums on from the day that Yoshimi P-We pulled together a fictional all-female band for a magazine article, OOIOO continues its euphoric, drum-pounding, girl-chanting adventures. Arminico Hewa enlists the same quartet of wild celebrants as 2006's Taiga: guitarist Kayan, bassist Aya and the double-drumming duo of Yoshimi and Ai. However, this latest album seems a hair more melodic and fluid than the last. In amongst tribal chants and ululations, you can pick up the occasional thread of conventional singing, sometimes even in English.

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2 comments:

cuddlefish said...

How did I miss this one? I really liked Taiga. When was this released?

Cheers!

jenniferpkelly said...

It came out on October 20 on Thrill Jockey. I think maybe Taiga is a little bet6ter, but this is good.

jenny