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ELECTROPUTAS “THE ELECTROPUTAS’ 3 LP continues their strategy of investigating Can Groove Land, then blasting it with all kindsa crude noise hand grenades. I mean, just when you’re about ready to settle back into a ‘Turtles Have Short Legs” mood, the forest starts to melt around you. Pretty cool, and then some.” – Byron Coley/Thurston moore,| Arthur Magazine Electroputas are the perfect example of how a group can constantly be evolving without ever losing the essence of what made them a band to begin with. This three piece has been through transitions since they got together in the late 90s, but without question anybody who has seen them over this time knows that they have maintained an organic integrity that has them honing their sonic attack to a razor sharp point. This band is also a sign of how a love for obscure music
can bring people together from all over the world. Joe Frivaldi is Hungarian,
Jaiko Suzuki and Akio Mokuno are from Japan. They formed the trio in their
adopted home of New York City. It is here in the incubator of the under
the radar music scene in the Big Apple that the Electroputas was birthed.
They played at spaces and clubs ignored by the mainstream usually at the
end of an evening due to their work schedules. The Putas used their diverse
taste to make exigent, aggressive, and can’t get that that groove
out of my head sets that made it worth the wait. But what would one expect from a band who has played with Black Dice, Secret Machines, William Parker, Pan Sonic, Arto Lindsay, No Neck Blues Band, Caroliner Rainbow, and James Chance to name a few? Unfortunately if you have not seen them live it has been almost impossible to hear them. They have one CD that was released in 1999, 6 or 7 special operations that was recorded in their early formative days. Another album was recorded with Jim Sclavunos (Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, 8 Eyed Spy, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) that has been in limbo for a few years. Only their Piano Bloom EP, a part of The Social Registry’s 12” series has had wide distribution. But that is all about to change. After releasing Piano Blooms the band began working on material for a full length. In October of 2003 the band set up shop for a long weekend at Junkyard Studios with Sean Maffucci of Icewater Scandal running everything into the tape machine. What was supposed to be a handful of days turned into a nights and weekend affair, spanning 6 months: deconstructing all the material and rebuilding it. As they went along the band’s ideas flowed & expanded, the resulting work is a cohesive set of material culled from over five hours of final mixes. Brining in a range of guests including Josh Diamond (of Gang Gang Dance), Zulemma Castillo & Abdel Kader Ouedraogo (not to mention some multi-instrumentalism by Sean Maffucci) Electroputas took their hit-you-in-the-kidneys-Can inspired philosophy and reoriented themselves. Using 3 to start a new direction for the band. This trio will always be experimenting, like a shark always moving. |
Catalog Number: TSR013 Tracklisting: All Tracks Listed In Blue Are Linked To A Downloadable MP3 |