Headfirst Editor's Pick
"Sell out warning! Japrocksampler meets Krautrocksampler via deliciously acid-fried heavy space rock oozing with doom-laden fuzz solos and psych-out electronics. Dhidalah are ripping this genre a new one from the Far East alongside Guruguru Brain label mates Kikagaku Moyo and Minami Deutsch."
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A gig held at The Louisiana on Monday 6th May. The event starts at 19:30.
DHIDALAH • www.dhidalahggb.bandcamp.com
DIRTY NIPS • www.instagram.com/dirtynipsmusic
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Since 2013, Dhidalah has hailed from the Tokyo underground as a space rock power trio. The band name derives from theJapanese legend of the Giant Gods — known as the creaters of mountains, lakes and islands. Dhidalah plays improvisational music performances inspired by various genres from stoner/doom to kraut rock.
"Where is space? Is it in our brain? Or is it outside the planet Earth?”
Dhidalah poetically answers these questions with their newest album Sensoria.
(Soma, Black Shrine) Two songs are made from their weekly jam session in Tokyo. The band leader, Gotoh usually records the session and shares it with (Masahito aka Bin and Ikuma) the other two members. After listening to the jam recording, they each get inspired by the flow of sounds and find a connection to the outside world. In the following week and with their own understanding, they try to recreate the (essence of the) jam.
(Invader Summer, Dead) Track 2 and 3 are written by Ikuma, who is known to be a natural space head guitar monster with his own interpretation of space.
The last 20-minute long Black Shrine was inspired by the Japanese folklore Yokai, the spiritual and sometimes shapeshifting creatures living in the dark mountains of Japan.
The band comments “Space is free space, Sensoria is a thoughtful, supernatural example of a Japanese trio space. How is your space like? Deep in the middle of the night, or in bright daylight, in the smallest of rooms, to the vastness of the forest, listening to Sensoria will open you up to a new sense/kind of space."
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16+ event, under 18’s must be accompanied by an adult.
Presented by Gravy Train.
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GT events • www.gravytrainbristol.co.uk
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
DIRTY NIPS • www.instagram.com/dirtynipsmusic
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Since 2013, Dhidalah has hailed from the Tokyo underground as a space rock power trio. The band name derives from theJapanese legend of the Giant Gods — known as the creaters of mountains, lakes and islands. Dhidalah plays improvisational music performances inspired by various genres from stoner/doom to kraut rock.
"Where is space? Is it in our brain? Or is it outside the planet Earth?”
Dhidalah poetically answers these questions with their newest album Sensoria.
(Soma, Black Shrine) Two songs are made from their weekly jam session in Tokyo. The band leader, Gotoh usually records the session and shares it with (Masahito aka Bin and Ikuma) the other two members. After listening to the jam recording, they each get inspired by the flow of sounds and find a connection to the outside world. In the following week and with their own understanding, they try to recreate the (essence of the) jam.
(Invader Summer, Dead) Track 2 and 3 are written by Ikuma, who is known to be a natural space head guitar monster with his own interpretation of space.
The last 20-minute long Black Shrine was inspired by the Japanese folklore Yokai, the spiritual and sometimes shapeshifting creatures living in the dark mountains of Japan.
The band comments “Space is free space, Sensoria is a thoughtful, supernatural example of a Japanese trio space. How is your space like? Deep in the middle of the night, or in bright daylight, in the smallest of rooms, to the vastness of the forest, listening to Sensoria will open you up to a new sense/kind of space."
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16+ event, under 18’s must be accompanied by an adult.
Presented by Gravy Train.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
GT events • www.gravytrainbristol.co.uk
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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