I picked HoHoKus on a whim from a record store earlier today PURELY based on it’s beautiful/mysterious packaging and I can tell you that I have not stopped listening to this beauty since.
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Clear disc!!! So awesome.
If you can imagine Gang Gang Dance being slain by a savage neon tribe in the heart of a Romanian village while reciting spoken word in an almost Prinzhorn-School-of-Dance-manner, then you just might be chipping at the iceberg of mystery that is Amolvacy’s HoHoKus.
HoHoKus comes at you from all directions and pummels you with crashing symbols, handclaps and ritualistic matter-of-fact spoken word/chanting/shrieking/rambling.
I’m not really sure how I’ve never heard of these guys – they’re what the “noise scene” is all about today, yet they’ve not popped up anywhere I’ve looked – until now.
Track listing I think is as follows:
1. They All Played In Amusement Fields
2. Exorcism of Pity
3. The Nobleman’s Fever
4. Thus Spoken on the Cold Night of Thieves
5. Move Along The Concrete Is Warm
6. Fools Dream When They Should Dance
7. Lover Go From Hence
8. Yow Chi Cha Cha
9. Gargantu Pantagruel
Overall, 8/10.
TL:DR, you can experience Amolvacy’s HoHoKus here.
