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Masana Temples
Kikagaku Moyo →153,075 listeners2,000,730 plays
2018psychedelic rockpsychedelic folkjapanwsum 91.7 fm madison
about this album
The shifting dimensions of Masana Temples, fourth album from psychedelic explorers Kikagaku Moyo,are informed by various experiences the band had with traveling through life together, ranging from the months spent on tour to making a pilgrimage to Lisbon to record the album with jazz musician Bruno Pernadas. The band sought out Pernadas both out of admiration for his music and in an intentional move to work with a producer who came from a wildly different background. With Masana Temples, the band wanted to challenge their own concepts of what psychedelic music could be. Elements of both the attentive folk and wild-eyed rocking sides of the band are still intact throughout, but they’re sharper and more defined. More than the literal interpretation of being on a journey, the album’s always changing sonic panorama reflects the spiritual connection of the band moving through this all together. Life for a traveling band is a series of constant metamorphoses, with languages, cultures, climates and vibes changing with each new town. The only constant for Kikagaku Moyo throughout their travels were the five band members always together moving through it all, but each of them taking everything in from very different perspectives. Inspecting the harmonies and disparities between these perspectives, the group reflects the emotional impact of their nomadic paths. The music is the product of time spent in motion and all of the bending mindsets that come with it. User-contributed text i
why this is interesting
# Masana Temples This album rewards close attention for how it interrogates psychedelia itself. Rather than retreating into familiar sonic territory, Kikagaku Moyo deliberately collaborated with Bruno Pernadas, a jazz musician whose artistic DNA differs fundamentally from their own, to push against the boundaries of what their genre permits. The resulting work—shaped by years of touring and a purposeful pilgrimage to Lisbon—suggests that genuine artistic growth requires discomfort. What emerges is not a simple fusion but something more intellectually restless: a band asking themselves serious questions about their medium's possibilities, and letting those questions reshape their music rather than answering them prematurely.
