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anyone seen them on their tour?

anyone going to see them on their tour?

don't even like 'em mate?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link

do you have the dates?

― login name (fandango), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

The one mp3 I have, sounded a lot better than I expected it to when I found it/heard it again a month later. Like The Shaggs-gone-hardcore (and probably a ton of other reference points I'm not clued up to, early Boredoms is what I keep reading).

― login name (fandango), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link

www.google.co.uk

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

:-P

(and thanks)

― login name (fandango), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

saw them a while back in new york. lots of fun, definitely worth seeing. the new record on tzadik isn't quite what i hoped it would be, however.

― michael crumsho (clikatowi), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I agree w/ Michael - I was expecting to love the new album and in the end I only like it. Something else has been going on every time they've come to town, but I get the impression they'd be great live. I'd say, see if 'em if you can, I plan to next time.

― TRG (TRG), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

im going to see them on fri in london

the tzadik alb is great, whatcha talkin bout

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

the tzadik album isn't nearly as good as the guyunne cassette stuff. it has it's moments, i guess, but this band is better in short bursts or live.

― michael crumsho (clikatowi), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Everything I've read / heard indicates that Afrirampo are brain-crushing and bottomless theater-of-mayhem live, but their records are so-so. I've got a bootleg of a Tokyo show and heard their WFMU live broadcast, and both pissed all over the studio stuff big time.

They opened for Lightning Bolt on their last US swing, I'm still kicking myself for missing that one. So if they play yr town it's probably best to hop on the jitney and get there. It might be the difference between seeing a Suckdog & Costes show and listening to a Suckdog & Costes record. Ah, probably not. Does anybody around here even remember Suckdog & Costes?

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Costes performed in my town a couple of years ago. I've never smelled anything else quite like it.
Afrirampo have great vocals.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Nice.

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

saw them opening for sonic youth in amsterdam last year. totally blew me away & i immediately bought the cdr they were offering at the merchandice stand. listening to that at home was far less exciting. so yes: go see them live!

― willem (willem), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link

they're totally rad live--for sure check them out. i've seen them in japan a bunch of times. and the tzadik record is nothing compared to their earlier stuff like 'urusa in japan'.

― cakeplate, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

I JUST GOT BACK FROM SEEING THEM LIVE!!!!! BEST SHOW I'VE EVER SEEN!!!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 11 March 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

They were magnificent when I saw them, with Ward Fowler, some months ago - we plan to go again when they are back in London next month.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 11 March 2006 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Afrirampo were the first actual 'date' I ever had with my current girlfriend. They're super cool. I want to marry both of them.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 11 March 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

they opened their san francisco set with "I want...to eat....best.....burrito! I WANT TO EAT......BEST BURRITO!!!!"
I almost wept with happiness.

― goodbyesoberday (goodbyesoberday), Saturday, 11 March 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

they were at the smell yesterday and i forgot all about it

― charlie bucket (charlie bucket), Saturday, 11 March 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

That's exactly where I saw them!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 11 March 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

how was it?

dmbq will be at the smell tomorrow i might go.

― charlie bucket (charlie bucket), Saturday, 11 March 2006 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Goddammit, where can I find their dates?

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 12 March 2006 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link

http://onipika.versus.jp/index_2.html

― charlie bucket (charlie bucket), Sunday, 12 March 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I know it's taken me a long time for me to respond but, I have some very greedy appliance hogs in my family. Well like I said above, it was the best show I've seen, but that might not be saying much coming from me. I actually really want to see dmbq tomorrow, but I don't know if I'll be able to make it. That show last night was pretty freaking awesome though!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Sunday, 12 March 2006 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Seek out Urusa CD on Gyunne label if you can, my fave record -- and comes with DVD of 2 fantastic videos.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Sunday, 12 March 2006 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Sure will!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Sunday, 12 March 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

......or better yet,ysi?? .....please???

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Sunday, 12 March 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Did you catch dmbq charlie??

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link

i haven't seen afrirampo and i can believe that they're best experienced live (a friend who just caught them at sxsw called them "the future of rock 'n' roll"). but i like the album a lot on its own. i like the way they scatter recognizable rock and punk moves around, so that they'll kind of lurch into a bo diddley beat or some zep boogie riff, like these are all just toys in a playroom and they throw them around until something breaks and then move on to the next one.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 19 March 2006 06:36 (eighteen years ago) link

"Did you catch dmbq charlie??"

i didnt i flaked but part of the reason was i have a ticket to dmbq's show at knitting factory on this tuesday the 21st. did you go? will you be at the knitting factory show?

i'm still kicking myself for missing afrirampo after hearing all this praise

― charlie bucket (charlie bucket), Sunday, 19 March 2006 06:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I saw them. They had a good climax at the end of the set, with the singer bringing out his gasmask/microphone thing, and then taking as many jackets he could from various audience members and then attempting to wear them all. The drummer was hillarious! He was wearing a thong and his shirt was tied up all gay like, totally flamboyant. I wonder if this is his way of filling the shoes of their former female drummer. At the very end of the set, after the mask thing, I thought the singer was going to strip totally naked, thank god he didn't, he just unbuttoned his jeans after taking off his shirt. But he did manage to yank down the drummer's thong, revealing a good portion of pubes and the top half of his dick. They were totally destructive too, especially with the drums! It was a great show, but still, not to make you kick yourself more or anything, I thought Afrirampo was tops!
I wasn't aware that they were playing at the knitting factory. Shoot, I don't think I'll make it because I have a really late class that day. Oh well I saw them once this month, I shouldn't get spoiled! : )But as for Afrirampo I have now made a decision to never miss them when they are in town.The funy thing is that I too felt compelled to call them the "future of rock n roll". I'll never forget that show. Especially because Oni and Pika were there just like any other concert goers before they played. Checking out the bands and such. They were there when DMBQ played too! I remember when DMBQ were about to start playing, Oni walked up right next to me, as if she was going to view the show from that spot! I wanted to try and say hi or something, but by the time I could get the nerve, she had already decided there was a better spot somewhere else.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 20 March 2006 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Brian, you said to seek out "Urusa in Japan", well I got it recently but it's not on the Gyunne label, it's on Ki/oon records. Is there a difference between the two? Also it doesn't have the DVD, so that could be the difference, but I just wanted to check just in case.
Every time that I put an answer on this thread it seems to die for a while, so hopefully I'll get a response. Thanks.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

They were pretty astonishing at Mono in Glasgow on Tuesday. Anyone else there? Actually quite garagey, and although they're wild performers, it certainly isn't just chaos.

Haven't got around to listening to the disc yet.

― Soukesian, Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyone listen to Acid Mothers Afrirampo disc?

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

my friend sez it's good but he has not yet made me a copy, boo.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

yeah, I was at Mono. It was the fifth time I've seen them, and the worst, although it was still fantastic. The new songs are very different but still great, although the performance this time didn't quite reach the on-the-edge-of-collapse insanity I've come to expect.

The AMA album appears from my first few listens to be good, sounding both like both bands at their most abstract and like something completely different.

― Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux (Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Re: that Gyunne URUSA, yes it has 2 discs, one of which is the DVD, so it must be reissued on another label without the DVD.

But fear not cuz that video is up on You Tube, for the song "afrirampo", it's wonderful. It's like a DJ Jazzy Jeff video gone all Boredoms. Looks like the had a heck of a fun time making it:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VT6d2cxRhQw&search=afrirampo

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I was wondering if that was the video included with the disc. Did you say there were two videos though? If so what's the other video?

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 14 April 2006 05:49 (eighteen years ago) link

i was at mono too. the introduction was beyond awesome but i thought they kind of coasted a little bit after that.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 14 April 2006 06:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh the second is a kind of montage of them playing live in different locations, for a few minutes.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I saw something like that on youtube. Is it the same thing?

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link

six months pass...

Afrirampo have a new album out (Baka Ga Kita), since July. But no mention yet, so any good?

― lrsn (larssen), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

the baka album is a recording of them playing with pygmies in cameroon. ethnic folkways gone to symbolic trigger communication class. totally great.

― simon gabriel (one off), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

It is awesome, really cool.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

wow, somehow managing to find this thread is one of my proudest moments.

There's a new song from their upcoming (September, Japan) album on their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/afrirampo. Pretty different from what they've released, and really great. Can also be heard and seen as recorded by my girlfriend at the aforementioned Mono concert in the second half of this]/url] video!

There's also a recent video of Oni + acoustic guitar on youtube: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YeprNGKcb0&mode=related&search=. Really different and really great.

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

oops. well, something like that.

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

and no one's posted [Removed Illegal Link] video yet?!? it's the best music video ever!

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

AW JEEZ. i'm not very good at this. [url=[Removed Illegal Link]

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPX33Paq-KM

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

That new song sounds soo good.

― xox, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Last time I saw them live, they opened with a tea ceremony that their mothers put together and ended by dragging drums into the crowd and starting singalongs. I still want to marry both of them.

― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I played sxsw with them last year. they were great.

anyone know what size venues they play in japan or europe?

― UncleTomfly, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link

They aren't a big draw in the UK. Mono is pretty small - couple of hundred maybe? Has to be the cleanest and most civilized UK venue I've ever been in though.

― Soukesian, Saturday, 7 April 2007 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anybody know what's up with them right now. They canceled pretty much all of their dates. I think one of them is pregnant.

― Jack Burton, Saturday, 7 April 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Oops. There was supposed to be a question mark in there.

― Jack Burton, Saturday, 7 April 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

ill find out for ya the next time i talk to my agent.

― UncleTomfly, Saturday, 7 April 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Alright, I'll ask: who do ya play for, UncleTomfly?

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 8 April 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, good question. I almost took that answer as sarcasm, but then realized the sxsw connection.

― Jack Burton, Sunday, 8 April 2007 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Blowfly, forks.

jack, we share the same us agent as afriampo, michelle cable @ panache booking.

back to back at that sxsw show it was afrirampo,dmbq, Blowfly and bad wizard. good times.

― UncleTomfly, Sunday, 8 April 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

ah, respect due to ya!
A blowfly/afrirampo double feature sounds like good times indeed!

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 8 April 2007 06:39 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks forks
where are you located? were about to hit ye olde road in june.

at sxsw afrirampo jumped onstage and danced while we played "shake your ass" - good times it was.

― UncleTomfly, Sunday, 8 April 2007 06:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Awesome.

― Jack Burton, Sunday, 8 April 2007 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

NYC. Lemme know when yer in town.

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 8 April 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

The same goes for Los Angeles. :)

― Jack Burton, Monday, 9 April 2007 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

forks,
we're doing a clarence reid soul gig on saturday, june 16th @ southpaw. may do blowfly late night somewhere else that night or the next day.

jack, we just did long beach in feb en route to australia, and played knitting factory last september. LA is great for us, as we have dedicated dancers who like to get freaky with each other onstage. probably will be back in late fall/winter.

― UncleTomfly, Monday, 9 April 2007 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Cool, Southpaws fun! Remind!

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

seven months pass...

Anybody hear the new album??

― Jack Burton, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 06:59 (sixteen years ago) link

I just got it today. It all flows together and the last 10 minutes are great, some of their best material. Need to hear the rest more. Plenty of repetition, the average song length is about 6 minutes. I like the colorful artwork! One major complaint is that there are some really gorgeous parts (like, most of the final two songs) interrupted by static-y compression noise.

― xox, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 07:18 (sixteen years ago) link

just the snippet of the title track on their myspace, which sounds good. not released in the u.s., right?

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Title?

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 08:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Suuto Breakor

― xox, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link

I've been trying to get a hold of it! Where did you get it??

― Jack Burton, Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

suuto breakor is a really cool album. never really gets too raucous and has some great guitar lines

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 10 April 2009 08:32 (fifteen years ago) link

wish they would tour US again

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 10 April 2009 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link

love the last minute or so of track six from suuto breakor. comes out of nowhere and rocks hard

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 16 April 2009 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMNBVnlUkt8

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 11 June 2009 05:11 (fourteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

drummer is touring folk solo as moon mamma

March 12th friday @ Bruar falls
HEARTFAST presents:
All Girls, Brooklyn v.s. Osaka Night !

Talk Normal (Brooklyn)
Moon♀mama (Pikacyu from Afrirampo folk solo) (Osaka)
Hard Nips (Brooklyn)
Waterfai (Osaka)
Olivia MORI (Brooklyn)

Bruar falls
http://www.bruarfalls.com/
245 grand st (bet driggs ave+ Roebling st)
brooklyn, NY 11211

Sunday March 14th＠Hillarious Attic
Providence RI USA

9pm

Moon♀Mama
Waterfai
MIKKO　（水内義人）
Nautical Almanac
Weyes Bluhd
Black Pus

March 16th Tuesday @ Pianos, New york
Not All Girls, New York v.s. Osaka Night !
PIKA☆YUKA (Pika from afrirampo+ Yuka Honda ex-Cibo Matto) (Osaka+New York)
Preacher and the knife (New York)
Waterfai (Osaka)
Hard Nips (Brooklyn)
Moon♀mama (Osaka)

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 05:45 (fourteen years ago) link

brian chippendale's flyer for the moon mama PVD show... just cuz I think it's pretty

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll45/plackbus/MMAMAshow.jpg

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Hard Nips (Brooklyn)

so much better than anything afrirampo imo!!!!

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 March 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link

five years pass...

Reuniting for a few shows http://natalie.mu/music/news/172348

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link

yeay!

― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 January 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...

Footage from one of the reunion shows, still awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFc1qmLafAY

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:43 (seven years ago) link

They were pretty astonishing at Mono in Glasgow on Tuesday. Anyone else there? Actually quite garagey, and although they're wild performers, it certainly isn't just chaos.
Haven't got around to listening to the disc yet.

― Soukesian, Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:50 (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

little late on this but i was at this gig!

― How To: Make the perfect summer jorts (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:52 (seven years ago) link

three years pass...

Hope people are still paying attention to Afrirampo.

They were performing on and off 2016-2019. I hope they start again post-virus.

They play lots from newest album (Afriverse) but also old favourites too. Many
concerts open with 'Miracle Lucky Girls'.

Just as talented, just as attractive, just as awe-inspiring as before.

― markjw, Saturday, 11 April 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link

They are or at least were great. I don’t think I e seen them in a decade.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 11 April 2020 01:31 (four years ago) link

ulysses, have you actually seen them live? What was the experience like? Please tell details if you actually were at an Afrirampo concert.

― markjw, Sunday, 12 April 2020 00:47 (four years ago) link

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