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YEASAYER (Brooklyn, NY)
With the indie blogosphere firmly in their corner, the eclectic four-piece collectively known as Yeasayer have made quite the name for themselves, and now bring their unique and trippy live experience to the shores of New Zealand for the first time.
Vest wearing brethren Chris Keating, Anand Wilderwere, Ira Wolf Tuton and Luke Fasano make up team Yeasayer “ each one a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, and chanter in their own right. Founded by half of a barbershop quartet, Yeasayer is a tight brotherhood undisrupted by the external. Together they harmonise and take us on a dreamlike journey through time and space, producing a strange and alluring sound known as Middle Eastern-Psych-Snap-Gospel an apocalyptic vision drawn out of odd pop music, 70s soft rock, African rhythms and psychedelic soul. Pulling from every spectrum and mashing, then re-mashing, Yeasayer have bent genres until they've become utterly unrecognisable. Performing live, the band brings out the boogie, radiating heat waves and rhythms across the dance floor for all to behold.
The Yeasayer debut long player All Hour Cymbals was released late last year, and has catapulted the foursome around the globe and into the minds and ears of many a critic and music fan alike. The band have just completed a mammoth US tour with friends MGMT and Man Man, and recently provided support to Beck on his European tour.
The future may be bleak, but for now we have Yeasayer!
Tuesday 7th October 2008
San Francisco Bath House - Wellington
Wednesday 8th October 2008
4:20 - Auckland
