Tricot
Aug 25
“Chikyū-jō de mottomo ōkina torio”? (noisy-vice)
Where: Broadcast
When: 21 August 2017
Support: Benjamin Blue; Chartered Trips
Monday night + one of the small venues on Sauchiehall Street + Japanese female Math Rock trio = implausibly exciting and sweaty experience that was one of the best gigs I have experienced this year. The only downside was that I felt sorry for the music lovers of Glasgow that only about 60 of their number got to share the experience with me.
The band (who hail from the neighbouring prefectures of Kyoto and Shiga) are all impressive, technically superb musicians – Ikkyu Nakajima (voc/gui), Hiromi “Hirohiro” Sagane (bs/bvoc) and Motoko “Motifour” Kida (gui/voc). They were joined by a male drummer (they rotate drummers regularly) who anchored everything superbly. The band apparently don’t recognise the terms Math Rock or Post Rock or Alternative Rock which tend to be applied to them and whilst the terms are not entirely misleading they do not do justice to the band’s singular musical palette: Roster said they have “an unusual and distinctive sound that consists of pop harmonization and emotional vocals over complex rhythms” and that captures what we witness tonight.
What also makes an impression is that unlike many bands that indulge in similar technical complex music Tricot (pronounced toh-ri-koh, according to Wiki) do not thrust their musicianship in your face, instead the pyrotechnics are delivered without fuss, indeed the music flows naturally from them with unabated joy. Several of the songs have a strong pop current emphasised by the often beautiful, often sweetly bouncy vocals of Ikkyu (have a listen to the ‘Slow Line’ off their 2014 mini-album Bakuretsu Tricot San) – it doesn’t matter to tonight’s audience that she sings in Japanese as the emotion in her voice carries us along. Their well-developed rhythmic muscle communicates straight to your feet (even when those rhythms have a complex ‘mathy’ hue) – Hirohiro’s bass playing snaps and amazes whilst the sheer attack and focus of Motifour at times takes your breath away. Please come back soon!
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