{"id":11946,"date":"2017-03-15T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=11946"},"modified":"2017-03-20T16:06:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:06:43","slug":"kikagaku-moyo-announce-new-ep-stone-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=11946","title":{"rendered":"Kikagaku Moyo announce new EP <em>Stone Garden<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kikagaku-Moyo-Stone-Garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11947\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kikagaku-Moyo-Stone-Garden-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kikagaku Moyo - Stone Garden\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kikagaku-Moyo-Stone-Garden-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kikagaku-Moyo-Stone-Garden-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kikagaku-Moyo-Stone-Garden.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s a new EP on the way from Tokyo\u2019s psychedelic five-piece <a href=\"http:\/\/kikagakumoyo.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kikagaku Moyo<\/a>, following last year&#8217;s album <em>House In The Tall Grass<\/em>. Entitled <em>Stone Garden<\/em>, the upcoming EP drops on April 21st through their own <a href=\"http:\/\/gurugurubrain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guruguru Brain.<\/a> Improvisation continues to be a key element of the band&#8217;s sound, who on <em>Stone Garden<\/em> adopt a more experimental approach than in their previously song-based effort, describes a press release. &#8220;This record enabled the band to experiment not only with instrumentation but also atonality and a playful approach to mixing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kikagaku Moyo are teasing the EP with the first single from it, &#8216;In A Coil&#8217;, an hypnotic and exhilarating track embracing a myriad of influences from classical Indian music and Krautrock to traditional folk and 70s Rock. Take a listen now.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/306457494&amp;color=aa2020&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To celebrate the release of <em>Stone Garden<\/em>, Kikagaku Moyo are embarking on a North American tour in May, before returning to Europe this summer for several live dates, including a show in London at Moth Club on June 20th. Head over <a href=\"http:\/\/kikagakumoyo.tumblr.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to check out all their stops and other info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new EP on the way from Tokyo\u2019s psychedelic five-piece Kikagaku Moyo, following last year&#8217;s album House In The Tall Grass. Entitled Stone Garden, the upcoming EP drops on April 21st through their own Guruguru Brain. Improvisation continues to be a key element of the band&#8217;s sound, who on Stone Garden adopt a more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1421],"class_list":["post-11946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-kikagaku-moyo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11969,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions\/11969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}