aka "0+1=everything," but the wwworld has an issue with experimental mathematics.

  

Lokua is a Chicago based producer and live p/a artist currently focused on minimal, acid-laden, flooriented, swung and polymetric techno. His tools of choice include anything and everything from a laptop and MIDI controllers, to 100s of HP of Eurorack, samplers, drum machines, and polysynths. He brings with him over 25+ years of songwriting experience. 
 
Lokua began his life as a musician making beats in his mother's basement and selling cassette tapes in high school primarily to aid freestyle cyphers. Increasingly inspired by groundbreaking artists like DJ Premier, Aphex Twin, Larry Heard, and Brian Eno, as well as Chicago's underground legends The Opus (of Rubberroom), Lokua immersed himself in the art of live p/a. This eventually led to co-founding the Moment Sound collective and label with fellow artists Slava and Garo, who together held down residencies focused on live electronic music and motion graphics at Subterranean, Darkroom, Rodan, Morseland, and other venues across Chicago. Lokua has released tracks on Moment Sound, Don't Trust Humans, Smooth Agent, Diane's Hunting Club, CPKAY, in addition to self releases. He has opened for artists such as Luke Slater, Claude Young, and Daedalus. He is currently a member of The Listening Club and Podval crews.

you can't see the light at the end, if you don't put yourself in a dark tunnel first.

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sibilant is getting familiar with an old electribe and ableton live.
if you are interested in collaboration, send a message! I am most interested in strange sounds too disturbing to truly be "ambient", and expression of complex thoughts and emotions-things that can't be put into words and demand art.


Fuzzy grooves and slippery psychedelia.

S. Shah スティーブン: guitar/ vocal/ electronics
Yoshihiro Yasui 安井義博: bass guitar
Chihiro ちひろ: drums/ percussion

2024: 
・Support act for the Brant Bjork Trio, 10/25, Tokuzo, Nagoya, Japan
・Release "Mojave Green" album on LP, CD, Cassette, Digital
・North American debut performance in Los Angeles
2023: 
・Support act for Earthless, 10/5, Huck Finn, Nagoya, Japan
・2nd LP, Of Wild Hazel released in North America by Glory or Death Records, California
2022: 
・Gek'kyoü single released in Japan on mono 7" 45rpm Japanese vinyl, and distributed by Clear Spot/Shiny Beast in the E.U., and by Glory or Death Records, California. 
・Of Wild Hazel full album released in Japan on 8-track Tape, CD, and LP by Low&Slow.Disk. CD and LP Distributed by Clear Spot/Shiny Beast in Europe. 8-track Tape released by Glory or Death Records, California.  
・Blasting Rod III reissued on LP by Glory or Death Records, California.
2021: First LP, Blasting Rod III, released with Glory or Death Records, California, and distributed by Clear Spot/Shiny Beast in Europe.
2019: Ltd. Ed. (100) Live in Japan "Official Bootleg" CD available only at concert venues.
2018: Yoshihiro Yasui replaces Shunji Miyoshi in mid-October.
2016: Self-titled BSR-012 EP CD released.
2015: 
・The first ever Blasting Rod rehearsals take place
・Shunji Miyoshi rejoins the band mid-year.
2014: 
・Yoshihiro Yamaguchi replaces Shunji Miyoshi in the fall.
・Chihiro fills in for Juüzoü on a spring date and stays in the drum seat.
・Shunji Miyoshi joins on electric bass after the act has a brief hiatus.
2009-2012: 
Shah collaborates with Contrabassist, Daïgo Ichi'no'se and drummer Juüzo Murata as core members of a flexible improvisation collective under the name Blasting Rod. For three years an identical lineup never appears twice. The group never uses a rehearsal studio.
2006: 
S. Shah gives three experimental solo performances as Blasting Rod.

"Adding an ethnic mood to American roots" -- Shin'ichi Isohata
「アメリカの文化にエスニックなムードが加味され」磯端伸一

"Heavy Psychedelic Guitar Shaman" --Ian Martin
「ヘビーサイケのギター呪術師」イアン・マーティン

"Gorgeous Van Halen"
「コージャスなヴァンヘーレン」 -Rock Bar UK

"Highly improvisational Doom Rock"
「インプロビゼーション性高しのドゥームロック」
- Isamu "Kotobazooka" Suzumura

"Within the roar there's a loose feel that's cool"
「爆音の中でたゆたう感じがよかった。」
- #nanyapuyo - あるじのタワゴト Aruji No Tawagoto

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