MAKAZORUKI
– analogue breakfast
(CD,
narrominded)
Some weeks ago, actually some days after new year’s
eve I made up the intention to feature more traditional or rock bands on
this website. The main factors should be that they are good, ie. I find them
interesting, and that they rock. I feel there has been to little rocking on
this webzine going on in the last months, and somewhere between all the free
impro noise and electroacoustic experiments, a man needs to shake his booty
or bang his had just as well. See, what have come off my intention: There
are two releases, three maximum depending on how you count, that stand up to
the definition. I mean, Don’t
mess with Texas don’t really rock out, nor does The Roland Schneider
Experience, and Time to Burn is closer to metal than to rock. So
there. Makazoruki
does not count as a new rock band either because we already did a praising
piece on their self-titled debut album about one and four thirds of a year
ago. But they rock enough to make me mention their new four song CD-EP in
here, so there.
I had Makazoruki pegged as one of those bands that live
and breathe in an underground network of likeminded people and that work up
a steady and constant basis of fans and friends that will keep them going
forever, but unfortunately too little to really live and thrive on, not to
speak of stardom at all. Bands like Gone Bald (also currently on narrominded) or Valina, to mention
just two who are actually too good to remain “small”. With time these
bands usually become really good, tight ensembles of three or four that,
because they have spent trillions of hours in rehearsal rooms, vans and
stages together, are the best bands you could ever think of live. I have
never seen them live, but these four songs give me a good impression that
the show, if it is a good evening, must be a blast.
Nevertheless, Makazoruki don’t do anything profoundly
new. The four songs on “analogue breakfast” offer grooving riffs and a
good dynamic between the rolling bas/drum-verses and the full blast
chorusses. Most interestingly, the singer reminds me of some of the singers
in new wave bands from the Eighties, and I mean the more rocking ensembles
like Oingo Boingo or X: But maybe that is just because there is a little
distortion and a litte echo on the voice in the mix, but that adds a certain
distancing to the arrangements that is welcome in the current wave of Joy
Division / Gang of Four-sound alike bands. I am actually more reminded of
New Model Army, but at a complete lack as how to explain that. Maybe it is
also just because one of the songs is sung in a language I know as
not-english. (oh my, what a bad joke…)
