Ffffshhhheeeeeuuuuuwwwww.  This is your brain on MOON DUO, the psychedelic Krautrock pairing of Ripley Johnson (guitarist from epic San Fran space-rock titans Wooden Shjips) and Sanae Yamada.  Formed in 2009 and initially inspired by John Coltrane and Rashied Ali’s late 60s collaborations – exploratory spacey free jazz with titles like ‘Interstellar Space’ and ‘Cosmic Music’, so you can see where they’re coming from – Moon Duo quickly released 12″ ‘Love On The Sea’ and EP ‘Killing Time’ and now tour their debut full-length ‘Escape’ on Woodsist.

Rolling krautrock grooves, neanderthal riffs, spacey keyboard freakouts and half-buried, whispered vocals – think Silver Apples, Suicide, Neu!, Royal Trux.  Less ‘usual suspects’, more a kitemark of doomy, heavy-lidded quality.  This will be LOUD, and it will be ace.

Nicely esoteric support choice too, with a still reasonably rare live sighting of experimental electronic operator Tom Raybould’s ZWOLF.  A restless collaborator on many a drone/improv outing at Chapter, under the Zwolf banner he brings crunchy laptop beats and fleet-footed electro goodness.

Swn presents…

MOON DUO

ZWOLF

Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff

Thursday 22nd July 8pm

£6 adv/£8 door

Tickets from http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_wales&query=detail&event=388600

“If you could surf on sound, this song would be a pretty sweet wave to catch… propelled by skygazing guitars and a menacing, hovering organ like some UFO, real or imagined” – Tinymixtapes

http://www.myspace.com/moonduo

http://www.myspace.com/zwolfzwolfzwolf