KIKAGAKU MOYO
- Share 8-minute psychedelic expedition "Dripping Sun"
- New album 'Masana Temples' out October 5th, 2018
on Guruguru Brain
- World tour includes London & Manchester shows

Pictured: 'Masana Temples' album artwork by Phannapast Taychamaythakool

Kikagaku Moyo have shared a second track from their forthcoming album ‘Masana Temples’, which is due for release on October 5th via the band’s DIY record label, Guruguru Brain.

Latest track “Dripping Sun” encapsulates the resonating sense of journeying that characterises the Kikagaku Moyo’s fourth album, meandering through differing terrains of balmy, laid-back psychedelia before building to a propulsive bass-fuelled crescendo.

"This is a day trip song," drummer and singer Go Kurosawa comments. "Get up, ride on a horse, take a walk, explore, and go back to your place and sleep. Often within the trip, you will find something that makes you feel nostalgic, something that brings back memories of the past and no matter how crazy the journey is, we always come back to where we were or where we belong and we feel calm. That was the idea of song when I wrote it."

Listen to “Dripping Sun”: https://kikagakumoyoggb.bandcamp.com/track/dripping-sun-2
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‪The shifting dimensions of ‘Masana Temples’, fourth album from psychedelic explorers Kikagaku Moyo, are informed by various experiences the band had with traveling through life together, ranging from the months spent on tour to making a pilgrimage to ‬Lisbon to record the album with jazz musician Bruno Pernadas. The band sought out Pernadas both out of admiration for his music and in an intentional move to work with a producer who came from a wildly different background. With ‘Masana Temples', the band wanted to challenge their own concepts of what psychedelic music could be. Elements of both the attentive folk and wild-eyed rocking sides of the band are still intact throughout, but they’re sharper and more defined. ‬

‪More than the literal interpretation of being on a journey, the album’s always changing sonic panorama reflects the spiritual connection of the band moving through this all together. Life for a traveling band is a series of constant metamorphoses, with languages, cultures, climates and vibes changing with each new town. The only constant for Kikagaku Moyo throughout their travels were the five band members always together moving through it all, but each of them taking everything in from very different perspectives. Inspecting the harmonies and disparities between these perspectives, the group reflects the emotional impact of their nomadic paths. The music is the product of time spent in motion and all of the bending mindsets that come with it.

'Masana Temples' is available to pre-order on Bandcamp here. Kikagaku Moyo tour Europe in November, kicking off in the UK - details below.
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'Masana Temples' track list:

1. Entrance

2. Dripping Sun (Bandcamp)

3. Nazo Nazo

4. Fluffy Kosmisch

5. Majupose

6. Nana

7. Orange Peel

8. Amayadori

9. Gatherings (Bandcamp)

10. Blanket Song

Kikagaku Moyo are:

Vocal/Guitar: Tomo Katsurada

Guitar: Daoud Popal

Sitar & Keyboard: Ryu Kurosawa

Bass: Kotsuguy

Drums/Vocal: Go Kurosawa

Kikagaku Moyo European tour dates:

Nov 07 Manchester, UK - Gorilla

Nov 08 London, UK - Scala

Nov 09 Paris, FR - Petit Bain

Nov 10 Utrecht, NI - Le Guess Who?

Nov 12 Cologne, DE - Gebäude 9

Nov 13 Berlin, DE - Lido

Nov 14 Krakow, PL - Something Must Break

Nov 15 Prague, CZ - Futurum

Nov 16 Leipzig, DE - Transcentury Update

Nov 17 Düdingen, CH - Bad Bonn

Nov 18 Ravenna, IT - Bronson Hanna Bi

Nov 19 Vienna, AT - Arena

Nov 21 Copenhagen, DK - Loppen

Nov 22 Malmö, SE - Plan B

Nov 23 Stockholm, SE - Fasching

Nov 24 Oslo, NO - Bla

Nov 25 Gothenburg, SE - Pustervik

Nov 26 Hamburg, DE - Hafenklang

Nov 27 Brussels, BE - Ab

Nov 28 Lyon, FR - Jack Jack

Nov 29 Bordeaux, FR - Iboat

Nov 30 Barcelona, ES - Upload

Dec 01 Madrid, ES - Caracol

Dec 02 Porto, PT

Dec 03 Lisbon, PT - ZDB

Dec 07 Athens, GR - Fuzzclub

Dec 08 Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso / Indiestad Night