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  • Mon Jul 28
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  • Upset The Rhythm at The Luminaire, 307-311 Kilburn High Rd, NW6 7JR
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  • By Sharon O’Connell

    Posted: Mon Jul 21

  • Although we’d like to claim that music-making transcends gender politics, we really don’t believe it. We’re not talking about the iniquities of the industry machine, but rather what seems like an update on the old educational, arts/ science divide. The appearance on Monday of this mighty female trio sets us wondering even while we applaud them: why are so few women making noisy, explorative rock in this country ?

    Tokyo’s Nisennenmondai (it’s the Japanese term for the ‘Y2K bug’, and was a buzz-word at the time) are from a country with a vast sub-culture of musical experimentation, of which women form an integral and very (pro)active part. So much so, in fact, that their gender has (rightly) become irrelevant. It’s only in contrast to our own music underground that it’s an issue. How come women here didn’t take up the reins abandoned by My Bloody Valentine? Where are the girls making music along the lines of say, Mogwai, Animal Collective, Volcano!, Lightning Bolt or Battles? Wither our Wata (lead guitarist with psychedelic noiseniks Boris)? Our female noise bands like OOIOO and Afrirampo?

    Frankly, we have no idea. We’d venture that experimenting involves taking the lead and conquering new territories and that women are encouraged to do neither, but then, Japanese women are bound by the same attitude, arguably moreso. What we do know is that Nisennenmondai rock. Their maths-like precision and relentlessly circular, rhythmic drive recall Battles and Neu!, but their love of psychedelic illbience and hissing percussion makes it clear that they imitate no one. Irrespective of their chromosome configuration.

    Further listening: www.myspace.com/nisennenmondai
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  • Upset The Rhythm atThe Luminaire,307-311 Kilburn High Rd, NW6 7JR
    , UK
    Geo: 51.543610, -0.200470
  • 020 7372 7123
  • Category: Rock, pop & dance
  • Times: 8pm
  • Price: £8
  • Tube: Kilburn

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