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Fujiya & Miyagi

Light Bulbs [Electronic / Dance]

Nach ihrem Erfolgsalbum `Transparent Things´ aus dem letzen Jahr, legen die vier Herren aus Brighton nun ihr neues Album vor. Nach wie vor angetrieben von einer Fusion zwischen Elektro, Kraut Rock und irgendwie dem was man als Disco Punk bezeichnet.

Zur Unterstützung haben sie mit Drummer Lee Adams ein weiteres Bandmitglied an Bord geholt, um dem Ganzen noch mehr Organik und Gradlinigkeit zu verleihen. Dezente Flächen, trockene, straighte Beats und der geflüsterte monotone Gesang von David Best, sind zu dem Erkennungsmerkmale der Band mit dem schwierigen Namen geworden.

Die Kollegen in England fanden bereits Worte und Formulierungen wie:

"their gentle Italo-disco funkis a particularly welcome development and osscillating organ is reminiscent of a pop-art Radiohead.. hard to resist"
Guardian 4/5

"The Fall, The Human League and Momus rub up against each other....
at their indie-disco feyest Fujiya & Miyagi can elicit commparisons with Hot Chip, but Lightbulbs trips the dark fantastic in its own deadpan style"
Mojo

"indie-pop fertilisted with krautrock, from the driving, interstellar to tender minimalist ballad, its warm, clever stuff... a mechanised moment of joy just waiting for savvy DJs to turn it up"
NME 7/10

Nachdem sie zu ihrer letzten Platte eigentlich ausschließlich in den USA spielten (mit kleinen & kurzen Unterbrechungen), werden sie diesmal auch in Europa touren:

25.11. Koeln - Luxor
26.11. Wiesbaden - Schlachthof
27.11. Muenchen - Registratur
28.11. Berlin – Secret Location
29.11. Hamburg - Gruener Jaeger

(Quelle: Stephan Velten, Check Your Head, Aug. 2008)

Imagine that FUJIYA & MIYAGI are mask-wearing technicians dissecting music, keen to magnify particles of sound to create a pulsing antidote to the ordinary. They speak in tongues, using language as a rhythm, picking words that sound good, rhyming 'jigsaws' with 'carnivores'. Their songs are incisive snapshots of real lives that make household appliances sound threatening. They are steeped in vintage music from evocative krautrock to deep soul, with wafts of early Human League synth, Pink Floydian Englishness and the throbbing groove of Tom Tom Club, all filtered for modern times. In total, FUJIYA & MIYAGI don't really sound like anything. Instead, they sound like everything condensed into perfectly arranged three minute chunks of infectious pop music, a strange hybrid of James Brown on Valium and WIRE gone pop. Or maybe Serge Gainsbourg with a PhD in electronics backed by David Byrne's Eno-produced scratchy guitar mixed by MF DOOM. It's Darwinism gone mad. Their most recent 12-inch, "Uh", further concentrated their sound. A set of vocal ticks, a funky bass and a storyline about a relationship as prickly as two porcupines, it made small talk sound sinister over an infectious groove. It was the perfect set up for their first album proper, "Light Bulbs" - imagine 11 classic ideas clicking on above your head, now with real drums in places, courtesy of Lee Adams, and the picture is complete. FUJIYA & MIYAGI's "Light Bulbs" carves a niche of its own. This is truly contagious music, a completely unique take on modern pop music that's completely their own.

Tracklist:

01. KNICKERBOCKER GLORY
02. UH
03. PICKPOCKET
04. GOOSEBUMPS
05. ROOK TO QUEEN'S PAWN SIX
06. SORE THUMB
07. DISHWASHER
08. PTERADACTYLS
09. PUSSYFOOTING
10. LIGHT BULBS
11. HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS

(Quelle: Cargo Records, 2008)

FORMAT: CD

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Fujiya & Miyagi

Light Bulbs [Electronic / Dance]

RELEASE: 19.09.2008

LABEL: Grönland

VERTRIEB: Cargo Records GmbH