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April 25, 2005
Mas / Asana / Hood
Last night’s show was fucking great. Mas was in full effect and better than ever. Honestly I haven’t seen another live band like them. Live drums, live sax, live chinese violin, live bass, and laptop textures pulling it all together: With five excellent musicans at all of those positions it’s a recipe for success.
I had never heard of Asana before, but their show was right on par as well. Off the top of my head I’d call it a kind of folk-post-rock. Their setup consited of 1 or 2 guitars and sometiems a ukelele, live drummer, keyboardist, xylophonist, and there was probably a bassist in there. Anyhow there wasn’t a flaw in their performance of beautiful crescendos and soothing textures. Highly recommended. I ran out of money and didn’t buy their cd, but if the live is any indication I’m sure its good. Here is their website, and there are song samples in the discography section.
Hood sounded good but to be honest I was up in the bar and didn’t really catch their performance.
Here’s a shitty Asana live photo (actually it’s a screenshot from a 320X240 movie):
I had forgotten there was a flute in their instrumentation as well. I’ve got their album Kupu Kupu and I’m listening now. The title track is sounding particularly nice on this warm spring day where I should be chilling in a park, but am instead working in a basement.
Posted by shane at April 25, 2005 11:24 PM