Today the Montreal-based band TEKE::TEKE dropped their anticipated second album called Hagata via Kill Rocks Star.
Blend of nostalgic classic Japanese tradition music that is surely miss and current experimental psych-surf rock.
Hagata is so different and you wouldn’t know that it was recorded in North America.
About the album:
Hagata sees the band more eclectic than ever, while still preserving their ferocious and playful spirit.
Looking up at the sky one afternoon, Maya Kuroki spotted a cloud that looked like it had a bite taken out of it.
One word immediately sprung to mind for the vocalist of TEKE::TEKE.
“‘Hagata’ is a very deep word, something present but also something leftover from someone or something no longer there.
It’s like waking up from a dream, or being connected to the other side of something.”
TEKE::TEKE are intimately familiar with that duality, of splitting reality between past and present, complex melodies and hushed interludes, intense action and lingering response.
After building their sound on Shirushi through careful assembly of countless splinters of Japanese folk, psychedelia, Brazilian surf rock, and other far-flung touchstones, the seven-piece indulged in and learned from stretching out in free-floating experimentation both on the road and with Hagata’s producer Daniel Schlett and his assistant, Daniel Fox, recorded in a scenic studio in Mountain Dale, New York, the album having been mastered at Sterling Sound.
Hagata gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
TEKE::TEKE – Hagata [Streaming]
