I haven’t really been inundated with the rawness of a new spiritual act in a rock band band since the mid-aughts it seems. Surely there is improvisational music and jam band fiascos, roots rock, fiddles and banjoes pouring out of every pore. Not since My Morning Jacket graced the summer stage outside the Stone Pony at Asbury Park (‘03) or Phish at Bonnaroo did I first really get a spiritual component to a live band. Wilco and plenty of acts get to that point. I guess I haven’t been patched into the Avant Ghetto and WFMU psyche thus far. Garcia Peoples, Chris Forsyth, Ryley Walker, William Tyler and now after a few flops in neu psychedelic rock, I was turned onto Kikagaku Moyo. A Japanese quartet that brings an electric sitar on stage as if it were a pedal steel guitar for any of those afore mentioned 00’s acts, Kikagaku Moyo is a nexus that brings ho-hum folkies and jam band rockers with ambient drone electronic heads to one plateau. It’s Devendra Banhart’s psychish folk dream acoustic and it’s Kraftwerk and Buffalo Springfield tripping with Garcia shredding reverb drenched guitars.
Minami Deutsch 
Kikagaku Moyo 
Michael Schoeck 