[DID NOT ATTEND: May 18, 2022] Kikagaku Moyo / Nina Ryser
I saw Kikagaku Moyo in 2019 and they were amazing. I’ve wanted to see them again, but they are from Japan, and the Pandemic kept them away.
They finally announced a new show for 2022 and I was psyched. Too bad it aligned with the Deftones show that I’d been waiting to see for a couple of years. Too bad also the Beach Bunny show that I was going to take my daughter to see fell on the same night.
Then Kikagaku Moyo announced that this was going to be their last tour–they were going to break up. So I’ll never see them again.
Alas.
Nina Ryser is one third of Palberta.
I happened to see her later on in the year opening for Tropical Fuck Storm
Nina Ryser is a member of Palberta. .. Like the rest of her Palbertans, Ryser is a prolific songwriter who is classically trained but who likes to push the boundaries of what music should do. … For this little set, she and her husband played keyboards (and all manner of gadgets). The set sounded improvised, but I’m sure it wasn’t. … Most of the songs were built around a beat and a simple chord pattern. There was a droney component to it and Nina’s vocals were kind of deapan. … My favorite parts of the show occurred between songs where Nina would mess around with looping pedals and make these interesting collages out of bits of the song she’d just played. There was definitely some improv in here and I enjoyed watching her manipulate the sounds to create something cool.
Wish I could have seen Kikagaku Moyo instead.
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