TEKE::TEKE Hagata 1/26/15 Chatwin transforms the tune almost

Chatwin transforms the tune almost beyond recognition

and their music just kept getting louder and stranger and more savage

Consisting mostly of sagely chosen cover tunes

They maintained this ethos into their first two records

and a raucous statement of purpose that's still bold and thoroughly engaging

TEKE::TEKE Hagata 1/26/15 Chatwin transforms the tune almostFrom the tender hearted Jinzou Maria to the rumbling and raucous Yurei Zanmai, the songs of Hagata bear an eerie yet somehow familiar sensation. Japanese pop tones, Serge Gainsbourg grandeur, folk whisper, and Brazilian surf rock all mix into the psychedelic stew. Blending past and present, from Canada to Japan, multiple lives lived at once, each track carries a sense of change, impact, of having been marked in an intimate way. And yet the force