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mmr @[email protected] · 2026-09-05 · 22:01 UTC

In This Episode You'll Learn

・Why Angine de Poitrine doesn't perform like a conventional rock band
・The difference between reproducing a song and constructing one onstage
・How Khn builds guitar and bass layers in real time

#AngineDePoitrine
#LiveLooping
#ExperimentalRock

youtu.be/1p_vWDpkxe0

Why Angine de Poitrine Sounds ...

#anginedepoitrine #livelooping #experimentalrock

GetMusic - Free Bandcamp Codes @[email protected] · 2026-09-03 · 08:10 UTC

Free download codes:

immortal ebt - in blue

"A devastatingly beautiful shoegaze album about water."

https://getmusic.fm/l/tNUFQl

#shoegaze #postrock #experimentalrock #blackgaze #music

GetMusic - Free Bandcamp Codes @[email protected] · 2026-09-03 · 08:10 UTC

Free download codes:

immortal ebt - in blue

"A devastatingly beautiful shoegaze album about water."

https://getmusic.fm/l/tNUFQl

#shoegaze #postrock #experimentalrock #blackgaze #music

GetMusic - Free Bandcamp Codes @[email protected] · 2026-09-03 · 08:10 UTC

Free download codes:

immortal ebt - in blue

"A devastatingly beautiful shoegaze album about water."

https://getmusic.fm/l/tNUFQl

#shoegaze #postrock #experimentalrock #blackgaze #music

GetMusic - Free Bandcamp Codes @[email protected] · 2026-09-03 · 08:10 UTC

Free download codes:

immortal ebt - in blue

"A devastatingly beautiful shoegaze album about water."

https://getmusic.fm/l/tNUFQl

#shoegaze #postrock #experimentalrock #blackgaze #music

mmr @[email protected] · 2026-08-31 · 09:31 UTC

In This Episode You'll Learn

・Why musical genres exist
・How genre categories help listeners navigate music
・Why genre can also limit how music is understood
・Why Angine de Poitrine resists conventional genre classification

#AngineDePoitrine
#PostGenre
#ExperimentalRock

youtu.be/Nm7Y_zRF67A

Angine de Poitrine and the Pos...

#anginedepoitrine #postgenre #experimentalrock

Professional Moron @[email protected] · 2026-08-24 · 16:00 UTC

Klek: Otherworldly Drummer for Angine de Poitrine 💛

It’s fair to say 2026 has been the year of French Canadian math rock band Angine de Poitrine. They’re all over the place online, plus all over the place at every venue around the world! They’ve even got a gig in out home city of Manchester coming up in September.

Their real names are still unknown (as they’re aliens, not human beings), so our attention is drawn now to the duo’s most excellent drummer Klek de Poitrine. He’s got the beats and he’s also got a polka dot costume.

All Hail, Drumming God Klek de Poitrine!!

The French Canadian band exploded onto the music scene, grabbing attention thanks to the absurdist papier-mâché uniforms they were. Then the catchy math rock music makes you stick around.

Their commitment to this is commendable, but from a drumming point of view Klek has a lot to deal with there:

Limited vision
Big cumbersome outfit
The heat

Drumming is bloody hard work and it’s why a lot of drummers rip their tops off, all so they can breathe a little. Klek has done the exact opposite, loading himself up in stuff. It must be hot and sweaty in that polka dot thing, so his ability to keep time with the band’s complex music is very impressive.

It gets so hot for him at some gigs the paint on his arms runs off onto his suit.

To add to the comical effect of the band, Klek’s proboscis monkey-styled nose sways all over the place whilst he’s playing. It’s a great little touch as the point is to not take it seriously, it’s just two young guys having a blast.

What is going on here then? Well, we’re drumming experts! Geniuses, in fact!! Thus, we’re taking a look at this microtonal approach to banging beats

Klek’s Kit and Playing Style

Above you can hear on Fabienk his style, this with his drums isolated away from bass and guitar. Our take on it is, by the closest approximation at any rate, is a Jaki Liebezeit style motorik beat. That means:

Repetitive, looping rhythms
Rock flourishes with tom-tom variations
Ever-evolving grooves

It’s an unusual structure, he’ll often shift around a lot, going from complex to repetitive in quick succession, all whilst his nose flies about the place. It’s funky stuff, though, and adds a real danceability factor to Angine de Poitrine.

And that’s what we like about Klek. No nonsense, just going down to the core of it with punch beats that’ll get people moving. It’s an often forgotten thing with drummers. Like in heavy metal or grunge, it’s just whacking the kit hard and heavy, there’s no desire to dance (headbanging maybe).

Here, Klek powers everything along in perfect harmony with guitarist Khn de Poitrine.

Khn’s guitar and bass playing work by looping various parts together live. It needs exceptional timekeeping from both of them to tie it all together, not least (again) as their vision is so restricted.

And the heat… boy, must it be hot for them. All those stage lights beaming down on them, you have to be fit to do that night after night.

Anyway, from our research online, Klek uses a Tama Superstar setup with a Tama piccolo snare and custom Luka snare additions. His style includes trance-like repetitive rhythms with head-muffling and unconventional dampening sounds all over his kit (a polka dot black sheet is usually spread across most of his kit).

We’ve no idea how long Angine de Poitrine will remain on our planet before returning home, but whilst Klek is on Earth I recommend drummers pay attention to him. Do so, now! Or you may upset our visitor.

#absurdist #AngineDePoitrine #Culture #drummer #Drumming #Drums #experimentalRock #Klek #KlekDePoitrine #Lifestyle #MathRock #Music #papierMâché

#absurdist #anginedepoitrine #culture #drummer #drumming #drums

Professional Moron @[email protected] · 2026-08-24 · 16:00 UTC

Klek: Otherworldly Drummer for Angine de Poitrine 💛

It’s fair to say 2026 has been the year of French math rock band Angine de Poitrine. They’re all over the place online, plus all over the place at every venue around the world! They’ve even got a gig in out home city of Manchester coming up in September.

Their real names are still unknown (as they’re aliens, not human beings), so our attention is drawn now to the duo’s most excellent drummer Klek de Poitrine. He’s got the beats and he’s also got a polka dot costume.

All Hail, Drumming God Klek de Poitrine!!

The French Canadian band exploded onto the music scene, grabbing attention thanks to the absurdist papier-mâché uniforms they were. Then the catchy math rock music makes you stick around.

Their commitment to this is commendable, but from a drumming point of view Klek has a lot to deal with there:

Limited vision
Big cumbersome outfit
The heat

Drumming is bloody hard work and it’s why a lot of drummers rip their tops off, all so they can breathe a little. Klek has done the exact opposite, loading himself up in stuff. It must be hot and sweaty in that polka dot thing, so his ability to keep time with the band’s complex music is very impressive.

It gets so hot for him at some gigs the paint on his arms runs off onto his suit.

To add to the comical effect of the band, Klek’s proboscis monkey-styled nose sways all over the place whilst he’s playing. It’s a great little touch as the point is to not take it seriously, it’s just two young guys having a blast.

What is going on here then? Well, we’re drumming experts! Geniuses, in fact!! Thus, we’re taking a look at this microtonal approach to banging beats

Klek’s Kit and Playing Style

Above you can hear on Fabienk his style, this with his drums isolated away from bass and guitar. Our take on it is, by the closest approximation at any rate, is a Jaki Liebezeit style motorik beat. That means:

Repetitive, looping rhythms
Rock flourishes with tom-tom variations
Ever-evolving grooves

It’s an unusual structure, he’ll often shift around a lot, going from complex to repetitive in quick succession, all whilst his nose flies about the place. It’s funky stuff, though, and adds a real danceability factor to Angine de Poitrine.

And that’s what we like about Klek. No nonsense, just going down to the core of it with punch beats that’ll get people moving. It’s an often forgotten thing with drummers. Like in heavy metal or grunge, it’s just whacking the kit hard and heavy, there’s no desire to dance (headbanging maybe).

Here, Klek powers everything along in perfect harmony with guitarist Khn de Poitrine.

Khn’s guitar and bass playing work by looping various parts together live. It needs exceptional timekeeping from both of them to tie it all together, not least (again) as their vision is so restricted.

And the heat… boy, must it be hot for them. All those stage lights beaming down on them, you have to be fit to do that night after night.

Anyway, from our research online, Klek uses a Tama Superstar setup with a Tama piccolo snare and custom Luka snare additions. His style includes trance-like repetitive rhythms with head-muffling and unconventional dampening sounds all over his kit (a polka dot black sheet is usually spread across most of his kit).

We’ve no idea how long Angine de Poitrine will remain on our planet before returning home, but whilst Klek is on Earth I recommend drummers pay attention to him. Do so, now! Or you may upset our visitor.

#absurdist #AngineDePoitrine #Culture #drummer #Drumming #Drums #experimentalRock #Klek #KlekDePoitrine #Lifestyle #MathRock #Music #papierMâché

#absurdist #anginedepoitrine #culture #drummer #drumming #drums

Professional Moron @[email protected] · 2026-08-24 · 16:00 UTC

Klek: Otherworldly Drummer for Angine de Poitrine 💛

It’s fair to say 2026 has been the year of French Canadian math rock band Angine de Poitrine. They’re all over the place online, plus all over the place at every venue around the world! They’ve even got a gig in out home city of Manchester coming up in September.

Their real names are still unknown (as they’re aliens, not human beings), so our attention is drawn now to the duo’s most excellent drummer Klek de Poitrine. He’s got the beats and he’s also got a polka dot costume.

All Hail, Drumming God Klek de Poitrine!!

The French Canadian band exploded onto the music scene, grabbing attention thanks to the absurdist papier-mâché uniforms they were. Then the catchy math rock music makes you stick around.

Their commitment to this is commendable, but from a drumming point of view Klek has a lot to deal with there:

Limited vision
Big cumbersome outfit
The heat

Drumming is bloody hard work and it’s why a lot of drummers rip their tops off, all so they can breathe a little. Klek has done the exact opposite, loading himself up in stuff. It must be hot and sweaty in that polka dot thing, so his ability to keep time with the band’s complex music is very impressive.

It gets so hot for him at some gigs the paint on his arms runs off onto his suit.

To add to the comical effect of the band, Klek’s proboscis monkey-styled nose sways all over the place whilst he’s playing. It’s a great little touch as the point is to not take it seriously, it’s just two young guys having a blast.

What is going on here then? Well, we’re drumming experts! Geniuses, in fact!! Thus, we’re taking a look at this microtonal approach to banging beats

Klek’s Kit and Playing Style

Above you can hear on Fabienk his style, this with his drums isolated away from bass and guitar. Our take on it is, by the closest approximation at any rate, is a Jaki Liebezeit style motorik beat. That means:

Repetitive, looping rhythms
Rock flourishes with tom-tom variations
Ever-evolving grooves

It’s an unusual structure, he’ll often shift around a lot, going from complex to repetitive in quick succession, all whilst his nose flies about the place. It’s funky stuff, though, and adds a real danceability factor to Angine de Poitrine.

And that’s what we like about Klek. No nonsense, just going down to the core of it with punch beats that’ll get people moving. It’s an often forgotten thing with drummers. Like in heavy metal or grunge, it’s just whacking the kit hard and heavy, there’s no desire to dance (headbanging maybe).

Here, Klek powers everything along in perfect harmony with guitarist Khn de Poitrine.

Khn’s guitar and bass playing work by looping various parts together live. It needs exceptional timekeeping from both of them to tie it all together, not least (again) as their vision is so restricted.

And the heat… boy, must it be hot for them. All those stage lights beaming down on them, you have to be fit to do that night after night.

Anyway, from our research online, Klek uses a Tama Superstar setup with a Tama piccolo snare and custom Luka snare additions. His style includes trance-like repetitive rhythms with head-muffling and unconventional dampening sounds all over his kit (a polka dot black sheet is usually spread across most of his kit).

We’ve no idea how long Angine de Poitrine will remain on our planet before returning home, but whilst Klek is on Earth I recommend drummers pay attention to him. Do so, now! Or you may upset our visitor.

#absurdist #AngineDePoitrine #Culture #drummer #Drumming #Drums #experimentalRock #Klek #KlekDePoitrine #Lifestyle #MathRock #Music #papierMâché

#papiermache #music #mathrock #lifestyle #klekdepoitrine #klek

Professional Moron @[email protected] · 2026-08-24 · 16:00 UTC

Klek: Otherworldly Drummer for Angine de Poitrine 💛

It’s fair to say 2026 has been the year of French math rock band Angine de Poitrine. They’re all over the place online, plus all over the place at every venue around the world! They’ve even got a gig in out home city of Manchester coming up in September.

Their real names are still unknown (as they’re aliens, not human beings), so our attention is drawn now to the duo’s most excellent drummer Klek de Poitrine. He’s got the beats and he’s also got a polka dot costume.

All Hail, Drumming God Klek de Poitrine!!

The French Canadian band exploded onto the music scene, grabbing attention thanks to the absurdist papier-mâché uniforms they were. Then the catchy math rock music makes you stick around.

Their commitment to this is commendable, but from a drumming point of view Klek has a lot to deal with there:

Limited vision
Big cumbersome outfit
The heat

Drumming is bloody hard work and it’s why a lot of drummers rip their tops off, all so they can breathe a little. Klek has done the exact opposite, loading himself up in stuff. It must be hot and sweaty in that polka dot thing, so his ability to keep time with the band’s complex music is very impressive.

It gets so hot for him at some gigs the paint on his arms runs off onto his suit.

To add to the comical effect of the band, Klek’s proboscis monkey-styled nose sways all over the place whilst he’s playing. It’s a great little touch as the point is to not take it seriously, it’s just two young guys having a blast.

What is going on here then? Well, we’re drumming experts! Geniuses, in fact!! Thus, we’re taking a look at this microtonal approach to banging beats

Klek’s Kit and Playing Style

Above you can hear on Fabienk his style, this with his drums isolated away from bass and guitar. Our take on it is, by the closest approximation at any rate, is a Jaki Liebezeit style motorik beat. That means:

Repetitive, looping rhythms
Rock flourishes with tom-tom variations
Ever-evolving grooves

It’s an unusual structure, he’ll often shift around a lot, going from complex to repetitive in quick succession, all whilst his nose flies about the place. It’s funky stuff, though, and adds a real danceability factor to Angine de Poitrine.

And that’s what we like about Klek. No nonsense, just going down to the core of it with punch beats that’ll get people moving. It’s an often forgotten thing with drummers. Like in heavy metal or grunge, it’s just whacking the kit hard and heavy, there’s no desire to dance (headbanging maybe).

Here, Klek powers everything along in perfect harmony with guitarist Khn de Poitrine.

Khn’s guitar and bass playing work by looping various parts together live. It needs exceptional timekeeping from both of them to tie it all together, not least (again) as their vision is so restricted.

And the heat… boy, must it be hot for them. All those stage lights beaming down on them, you have to be fit to do that night after night.

Anyway, from our research online, Klek uses a Tama Superstar setup with a Tama piccolo snare and custom Luka snare additions. His style includes trance-like repetitive rhythms with head-muffling and unconventional dampening sounds all over his kit (a polka dot black sheet is usually spread across most of his kit).

We’ve no idea how long Angine de Poitrine will remain on our planet before returning home, but whilst Klek is on Earth I recommend drummers pay attention to him. Do so, now! Or you may upset our visitor.

#absurdist #AngineDePoitrine #Culture #drummer #Drumming #Drums #experimentalRock #Klek #KlekDePoitrine #Lifestyle #MathRock #Music #papierMâché

#absurdist #anginedepoitrine #culture #drummer #drumming #drums

berlin.askapunk.de @[email protected] · 2026-06-30 · 14:45 UTC

Giöbia // B.L.O. Kantine Berlin (support: Icarus Burns)

B.L.O. Kantine, Monday, September 7 at 07:00 PM GMT+2

East Side Delta, Swamp Conspiracy, Lockkunst e.V. & Heavy Psych Sounds present: GIÖBIA

The neo-psychedelic acid rock band from Milan returns to Berlin with the latest LP “X-AEON”. Support by ICARUS BURNS, visual live performance by SECTOR 7G.

> Monday, 7 September, 2026
> B.L.O. Kantine (Kaskelstr 55, 10317 Berlin)
> doors 19:00, start 20:00
> presale via TixforGigs: https://www.tixforgigs.com/Event/73819?af=c0168mzw8f7n&saf=i2myc28

GIÖBIA
The history of the band starts in the mid 2000 in Milan, a path through mesmerizing neo-psychedelia, space rock and acid rock. With the 9th album “X-AEON”, released in fall 2025 via Heavy Psych Sounds records, Giöbia push their signature into uncharted territory. Echoes of the ’70s meet a bold, forward-looking vision, shaping an album that feels timeless. Each track offers a glimpse into a parallel reality, a plunge into a new era brimming with tension and mystery. The band has missed a proper club show for almost 10 years, it is time to welcome them as they deserve!

https://giobiagiobia.bandcamp.com
https://youtu.be/_F914AT9bL4
https://youtu.be/VZCTrMucz4Q

ICARUS BURNS
When the riffs hit, they burn. When the melodies soar, they sear. This is Icarus Burns.
The band's debut S/T album dropped in Feb 2025 to great reception, and with live gigs across various stages across Germany and Europe.

http://icarusburns.bandcamp.com
https://youtu.be/IvczVkHngxU

SECTOR 7G
The extra boost of the BLUES BUMPS series! By fusing cutting-edge techniques with vintage-inspired visuals, this visual collective pushes concerts way beyond the boundaries of sound.

https://youtu.be/_9DqQwewj_A
https://s7g.show

The event is aka the 2nd warmup for the Berliner Swamp Fest (10-12 Sept at Neue Zukunft): https://www.swampconspiracy.org/10-12-september-2026-berlin-swamp-fest

https://berlin.askapunk.de/event/giobia-blo-kantine-berlin-support-icarus-burns

#heavypsych #psychedelicrock #stoner #acidrock #experimentalrock #visuallightperformance

GutterPutter @[email protected] · 2026-05-29 · 22:51 UTC

Capsule Reviews (May 2026 – Bill Callahan, GEZAN, tsubi club…)

As promised from last month, here are 20 short-form reviews for this month’s Capsule Reviews!

https://gutterputter.com/2026/05/29/capsule-reviews-may-2026-bill-callahan-gezan-tsubi-club/

#artpop #artrock #electroindustrial #elita #experimentalhiphop #experimentalrock

Ether Diver @[email protected] · 2026-04-15 · 23:27 UTC

Honkey Bitch – Dances With Demons

Wild-eyed, woolly experimental rock for the real weird ones out there.

https://honkeybitch.bandcamp.com/album/dances-with-demons

@crj6551.bsky.social

https://www.etherdiver.com/2026/04/10/opm-sonic-cinematic/#HonkeyBitch

#ExperimentalRock #WeirdRock

#experimentalrock #weirdrock

GetMusic - Free Bandcamp Codes @[email protected] · 2026-04-07 · 22:10 UTC

Free download codes:

Kid Lightbulbs - RUINED CASTLE

"An experimental rock opera for the bleakest of times."

https://getmusic.fm/l/9r221H

#alternativerock #postrock #experimentalrock #artrock #experimentalpop #indietronica #alternativepop #pianorock #music

#alternativerock #postrock #experimentalrock #artrock #experimentalpop #indietronica

1001 Other Albums @[email protected] · 2026-02-11 · 07:00 UTC

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Between My Head and the Sky (2009, Japan/US)

Our next spotlight is on number 1080 on The List, submitted by avi_miller.

This album from the indomitable Yoko Ono brings back the band/collective, Plastic Ono Band, originally formed by Ono and John Lennon in the 1960s and last seen around the birth of their son, Sean Lennon. The reincarnated band on this wonderful slab of experimental/art rock is lead by Sean, and includes some of the best musicians NYC and Japan have to offer: Keigo Oyamada aka Cornelius (previously of influential Shibuya-kei group Flipper’s Guitar), Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto), Yuko Araki, Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu, Shahzad Ismaily (who pops up everywhere once you know his name), Michael Leonhart, Erik Friendlander, Daniel Carter, and Indigo Street.

The album goes a lot of wonderful places and often recalls Ono’s earliest work, but sounds so fresh that, if you didn’t notice the release date, you’d understandably have no idea that the artist was already 76 years old at this point. The Plastic Ono Band would have one last hurrah a few years later with almost the same lineup plus a long list of additional guests (including Questlove, Ad-Rock, and Mike D), Take Me to the Land of Hell released in 2013 to celebrate Ono’s 80th birthday.

I should perhaps admit I sort of tipped the scales on this one, though for good (albeit sad) reasons. Thanks to our resident artist Norn Cutson‘s love of Yoko Ono, I finally gave Ono’s work a chance last year, and quickly realized that I had written her off simply based on the biases of others, not my own opinions. Turns out, I totally dig Ono’s music, to the point where her 1973 album Approximately Infinite Universe – which Norn had done a lovely tribute piece of for their Record Collection art series – ended up on my personal 2025 AOTY list. So, in planning ahead for this month’s blog spotlights, I really wanted to feature an Ono album as a tribute to Norn, as today it’s somehow already been an entire year since they tragically left us. Since we inexplicably didn’t already have an Ono album on The List, I thought about adding Approximately myself and uploading Norn’s art since the image is still available in their Mastodon post, but I wasn’t sure that was appropriate. Also, I still have a lot of Ono to catch up on, so I wasn’t confident that Approximately would be the best album in her discography to choose. So, many thanks to Avi for stepping in and picking this one. I might’ve lost it when I heard the last track (on the digital version of the album, “I’m Going Away Smiling”), but Avi chose very well.

“The Multiversal DJ may not be playing what you want to hear, but She’s spinnin’ what you NEED to hear!”
– Norn Cutson

You are greatly missed, my friend.

#artRock #avantgarde #Cornelius #experimental #experimentalRock #KeigoOyamada #PlasticOnoBand #SeanLennon #YokoOno #YukaHonda

#artrock #avantgarde #cornelius #experimental #experimentalrock #keigooyamada

1001 Other Albums @[email protected] · 2026-02-11 · 07:00 UTC

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Between My Head and the Sky (2009, Japan/US)

Our next spotlight is on number 1080 on The List, submitted by avi_miller.

This album from the indomitable Yoko Ono brings back the band/collective, Plastic Ono Band, originally formed by Ono and John Lennon in the 1960s and last seen around the birth of their son, Sean Lennon. The reincarnated band on this wonderful slab of experimental/art rock is lead by Sean, and includes some of the best musicians NYC and Japan have to offer: Keigo Oyamada aka Cornelius (previously of influential Shibuya-kei group Flipper’s Guitar), Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto), Yuko Araki, Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu, Shahzad Ismaily (who pops up everywhere once you know his name), Michael Leonhart, Erik Friendlander, Daniel Carter, and Indigo Street.

The album goes a lot of wonderful places and often recalls Ono’s earliest work, but sounds so fresh that, if you didn’t notice the release date, you’d understandably have no idea that the artist was already 76 years old at this point. The Plastic Ono Band would have one last hurrah a few years later with almost the same lineup plus a long list of additional guests (including Questlove, Ad-Rock, and Mike D), Take Me to the Land of Hell released in 2013 to celebrate Ono’s 80th birthday.

I should perhaps admit I sort of tipped the scales on this one, though for good (albeit sad) reasons. Thanks to our resident artist Norn Cutson‘s love of Yoko Ono, I finally gave Ono’s work a chance last year, and quickly realized that I had written her off simply based on the biases of others, not my own opinions. Turns out, I totally dig Ono’s music, to the point where her 1973 album Approximately Infinite Universe – which Norn had done a lovely tribute piece of for their Record Collection art series – ended up on my personal 2025 AOTY list. So, in planning ahead for this month’s blog spotlights, I really wanted to feature an Ono album as a tribute to Norn, as today it’s somehow already been an entire year since they tragically left us. Since we inexplicably didn’t already have an Ono album on The List, I thought about adding Approximately myself and uploading Norn’s art since the image is still available in their Mastodon post, but I wasn’t sure that was appropriate. Also, I still have a lot of Ono to catch up on, so I wasn’t confident that Approximately would be the best album in her discography to choose. So, many thanks to Avi for stepping in and picking this one. I might’ve lost it when I heard the last track (on the digital version of the album, “I’m Going Away Smiling”), but Avi chose very well.

“The Multiversal DJ may not be playing what you want to hear, but She’s spinnin’ what you NEED to hear!”
– Norn Cutson

You are greatly missed, my friend.

#artRock #avantgarde #Cornelius #experimental #experimentalRock #KeigoOyamada #PlasticOnoBand #SeanLennon #YokoOno #YukaHonda

#artrock #avantgarde #cornelius #experimental #experimentalrock #keigooyamada

1001 Other Albums @[email protected] · 2026-02-11 · 07:00 UTC

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Between My Head and the Sky (2009, Japan/US)

Our next spotlight is on number 1080 on The List, submitted by avi_miller.

This album from the indomitable Yoko Ono brings back the band/collective, Plastic Ono Band, originally formed by Ono and John Lennon in the 1960s and last seen around the birth of their son, Sean Lennon. The reincarnated band on this wonderful slab of experimental/art rock is lead by Sean, and includes some of the best musicians NYC and Japan have to offer: Keigo Oyamada aka Cornelius (previously of influential Shibuya-kei group Flipper’s Guitar), Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto), Yuko Araki, Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu, Shahzad Ismaily (who pops up everywhere once you know his name), Michael Leonhart, Erik Friendlander, Daniel Carter, and Indigo Street.

The album goes a lot of wonderful places and often recalls Ono’s earliest work, but sounds so fresh that, if you didn’t notice the release date, you’d understandably have no idea that the artist was already 76 years old at this point. The Plastic Ono Band would have one last hurrah a few years later with almost the same lineup plus a long list of additional guests (including Questlove, Ad-Rock, and Mike D), Take Me to the Land of Hell released in 2013 to celebrate Ono’s 80th birthday.

I should perhaps admit I sort of tipped the scales on this one, though for good (albeit sad) reasons. Thanks to our resident artist Norn Cutson‘s love of Yoko Ono, I finally gave Ono’s work a chance last year, and quickly realized that I had written her off simply based on the biases of others, not my own opinions. Turns out, I totally dig Ono’s music, to the point where her 1973 album Approximately Infinite Universe – which Norn had done a lovely tribute piece of for their Record Collection art series – ended up on my personal 2025 AOTY list. So, in planning ahead for this month’s blog spotlights, I really wanted to feature an Ono album as a tribute to Norn, as today it’s somehow already been an entire year since they tragically left us. Since we inexplicably didn’t already have an Ono album on The List, I thought about adding Approximately myself and uploading Norn’s art since the image is still available in their Mastodon post, but I wasn’t sure that was appropriate. Also, I still have a lot of Ono to catch up on, so I wasn’t confident that Approximately would be the best album in her discography to choose. So, many thanks to Avi for stepping in and picking this one. I might’ve lost it when I heard the last track (on the digital version of the album, “I’m Going Away Smiling”), but Avi chose very well.

“The Multiversal DJ may not be playing what you want to hear, but She’s spinnin’ what you NEED to hear!”
– Norn Cutson

You are greatly missed, my friend.

#artRock #avantgarde #Cornelius #experimental #experimentalRock #KeigoOyamada #PlasticOnoBand #SeanLennon #YokoOno #YukaHonda

#artrock #avantgarde #cornelius #experimental #experimentalrock #keigooyamada

1001 Other Albums @[email protected] · 2026-02-11 · 07:00 UTC

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Between My Head and the Sky (2009, Japan/US)

Our next spotlight is on number 1080 on The List, submitted by avi_miller.

This album from the indomitable Yoko Ono brings back the band/collective, Plastic Ono Band, originally formed by Ono and John Lennon in the 1960s and last seen around the birth of their son, Sean Lennon. The reincarnated band on this wonderful slab of experimental/art rock is lead by Sean, and includes some of the best musicians NYC and Japan have to offer: Keigo Oyamada aka Cornelius (previously of influential Shibuya-kei group Flipper’s Guitar), Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto), Yuko Araki, Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu, Shahzad Ismaily (who pops up everywhere once you know his name), Michael Leonhart, Erik Friendlander, Daniel Carter, and Indigo Street.

The album goes a lot of wonderful places and often recalls Ono’s earliest work, but sounds so fresh that, if you didn’t notice the release date, you’d understandably have no idea that the artist was already 76 years old at this point. The Plastic Ono Band would have one last hurrah a few years later with almost the same lineup plus a long list of additional guests (including Questlove, Ad-Rock, and Mike D), Take Me to the Land of Hell released in 2013 to celebrate Ono’s 80th birthday.

I should perhaps admit I sort of tipped the scales on this one, though for good (albeit sad) reasons. Thanks to our resident artist Norn Cutson‘s love of Yoko Ono, I finally gave Ono’s work a chance last year, and quickly realized that I had written her off simply based on the biases of others, not my own opinions. Turns out, I totally dig Ono’s music, to the point where her 1973 album Approximately Infinite Universe – which Norn had done a lovely tribute piece of for their Record Collection art series – ended up on my personal 2025 AOTY list. So, in planning ahead for this month’s blog spotlights, I really wanted to feature an Ono album as a tribute to Norn, as today it’s somehow already been an entire year since they tragically left us. Since we inexplicably didn’t already have an Ono album on The List, I thought about adding Approximately myself and uploading Norn’s art since the image is still available in their Mastodon post, but I wasn’t sure that was appropriate. Also, I still have a lot of Ono to catch up on, so I wasn’t confident that Approximately would be the best album in her discography to choose. So, many thanks to Avi for stepping in and picking this one. I might’ve lost it when I heard the last track (on the digital version of the album, “I’m Going Away Smiling”), but Avi chose very well.

“The Multiversal DJ may not be playing what you want to hear, but She’s spinnin’ what you NEED to hear!”
– Norn Cutson

You are greatly missed, my friend.

#artRock #avantgarde #Cornelius #experimental #experimentalRock #KeigoOyamada #PlasticOnoBand #SeanLennon #YokoOno #YukaHonda

#yukahonda #yokoono #seanlennon #plasticonoband #keigooyamada #experimentalrock

1001 Other Albums @[email protected] · 2026-02-11 · 07:00 UTC

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Between My Head and the Sky (2009, Japan/US)

Our next spotlight is on number 1080 on The List, submitted by avi_miller.

This album from the indomitable Yoko Ono brings back the band/collective, Plastic Ono Band, originally formed by Ono and John Lennon in the 1960s and last seen around the birth of their son, Sean Lennon. The reincarnated band on this wonderful slab of experimental/art rock is lead by Sean, and includes some of the best musicians NYC and Japan have to offer: Keigo Oyamada aka Cornelius (previously of influential Shibuya-kei group Flipper’s Guitar), Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto), Yuko Araki, Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu, Shahzad Ismaily (who pops up everywhere once you know his name), Michael Leonhart, Erik Friendlander, Daniel Carter, and Indigo Street.

The album goes a lot of wonderful places and often recalls Ono’s earliest work, but sounds so fresh that, if you didn’t notice the release date, you’d understandably have no idea that the artist was already 76 years old at this point. The Plastic Ono Band would have one last hurrah a few years later with almost the same lineup plus a long list of additional guests (including Questlove, Ad-Rock, and Mike D), Take Me to the Land of Hell released in 2013 to celebrate Ono’s 80th birthday.

I should perhaps admit I sort of tipped the scales on this one, though for good (albeit sad) reasons. Thanks to our resident artist Norn Cutson‘s love of Yoko Ono, I finally gave Ono’s work a chance last year, and quickly realized that I had written her off simply based on the biases of others, not my own opinions. Turns out, I totally dig Ono’s music, to the point where her 1973 album Approximately Infinite Universe – which Norn had done a lovely tribute piece of for their Record Collection art series – ended up on my personal 2025 AOTY list. So, in planning ahead for this month’s blog spotlights, I really wanted to feature an Ono album as a tribute to Norn, as today it’s somehow already been an entire year since they tragically left us. Since we inexplicably didn’t already have an Ono album on The List, I thought about adding Approximately myself and uploading Norn’s art since the image is still available in their Mastodon post, but I wasn’t sure that was appropriate. Also, I still have a lot of Ono to catch up on, so I wasn’t confident that Approximately would be the best album in her discography to choose. So, many thanks to Avi for stepping in and picking this one. I might’ve lost it when I heard the last track (on the digital version of the album, “I’m Going Away Smiling”), but Avi chose very well.