Shirushi + Hagata - BUNDLE

SHIRUSHI On their debut album Shirushi, TEKE::TEKE blend classic Japanese balladry, surf rock, psychedelia, and more to produce a set of songs that play like soundtracks to a wildly eccentric epic film saga. From the spiritual tale of “Yoru Ni” to the stomping adventure ride of “Kala Kala” and the doomed romance of “Dobugawa”, the Montreal-based seven-piece find a mystic cohesion. By tearing apart roaring punk guitar riffs, folk instrumentation, poetic Japanese lyrics, and big band energy, Shirushi builds a dazzling mosaic of styles and eras. 1. Kala Kala 2. Yoru Ni 3. Dobugawa 4. Barbara 5. Kizashi 6. Kaminari 7. Sarabande 8. Meikyu 9. Tekagami Cat. No. KRS688 Release date: May 7, 2021 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +  HAGATA From the tender-hearted “Jinzou Maria” to the rumbling and raucous “Yurei Zanmai”, the songs of Hagata bear an eerie yet somehow familiar sensation. Japanese pop tones, Serge Gainsbourg grandeur, folk whisper, and Brazilian surf rock all mix into the psychedelic stew. Blending past and present, from Canada to Japan, multiple lives lived at once, each track carries a sense of change, impact, of having been marked in an intimate way. And yet the force behind that marking is always just out of grasp, a wisp, a ghost, an energy, a spirit that compels you to keep reaching. And at the end of the day, the concrete answer of how that bite happened is far less thrilling than the bite itself. On Hagata, TEKE::TEKE move beyond the idea of walking across multiple paths, instead existing so fully in the space between that the usual constraints of creativity no longer apply.  1. Garakuta 2. Gotoku Lemon 3. Hoppe 4. Onaji Heya 5. Me No Haya 6. Doppelganger 7. Setagaya Koya 8. Kakijyu 9. Yurei Zanmai 10. Jinzou Maria Cat. No. KRS746 Release date: June 9, 2023