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Format: Vinyl LP, CD, Digital
Web: www.hopestreetrecordings.com/woodenboy

It’s soul music, baby, but not as we know it. The backbeat and the handclaps are still there and the horns still sound. The bass bumps, the organ screams and the guitars still twang, but the singer has left the room. Everything is shades of blue. This is soul music for the after hours. For the solitary dancers and the lonely hearts. The soundtrack to solitary headlights on a midnight highway. What to call it? Who cares! Can you dance to it? Just try not to. No one’s telling you to throw your hands up in the air, but no one would be surprised if you did. It’s dark here, so you can do your own thing.

Wooden Boy was recorded by The Cactus Channel -- a ten piece band from Melbourne, Australia -- all born in the 90s and raised on the internet. Yet somehow, this astonishing follow up to last year's rave-reviewed debut, Haptics, sounds like it could have been recorded in the 1970s, or possibly in the distant future. A timeless, placeless cinematic odyssey, Wooden Boy could have been an alternate soundtrack to Ghost Dog -- if Lalo Schifrin and the Meters were collaborating on the RZA's score. Or maybe Wooden Boy was what happened when Lars Von Trier got invited to direct an episode of Soul Train. What any of it may actually mean is left to the listener's imagination.

Funk aficionados will hear shades of New York on this record, echoes of El Michel’s taking on Wu Tang, the influence of Budos and Menehan et al. But this is the Generation Z version; both more tempestuous and more introverted. Recorded analog in the digital era, presented faceless in the celebrity era, inexplicably ambiguous in the soundbite era, is this the album the world needs right now? Undoubtedly yes. In a world where the NSA can read the text message that dumped you, what does a person need more than sad soul music from the future? Wooden Boy, baby, Wooden Boy.

PRAISE FOR HAPTICS by THE CACTUS CHANNEL (debut 2012 album):

•	"Hot-to-trot... an embryonic version of the Meters or the Dap Kings" - THE AUSTRALIAN (four stars)
•	"Tightly raw soul, rambling deep-funk jams and organ-driven party mash-ups" - THE AGE
•	"Infectiously funky sounds... a horn-fuelled, butt-shaking affair" - TRIPLE J HOME & HOSED
•	"Old-fashioned, gritty soul music – by a bunch of white teenagers from Melbourne" - THE MONTHLY
•	"Album Of The Week" - RTR PERTH, PBS-FM, SYN-FM, 2SER + EASTSIDE RADIO, RTR PERTH

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More Not Better No

不快な君を映す
日々の意味を君と話す

鬱な君の日々のために
声を枯らす音を鳴らす

浮かべた言葉が届くといいな

もう一回もう一回何度も聴いてよ
もう一回もう一回何度でも叫ぶよ

約束

Fading Light 사라지는 빛

Encore

奇形な木の桟橋、また生き返る
また、蘇る

イメージは後ろ姿も引っ掻いて
また、引き裂いている

平行世界の赤い海の上空を
船が雄叫びをあげて飛んで行くのを
君は何もせずじっと見ている

僕らの防波堤、不法投棄、不躾な若者

けたたましい笑い声がまた散らばって
それが許せない、未だ

長音の汽笛鳴らす船の甲板一杯に
隙間無く並べられた人の1人が
僕を見て笑っている

平行世界の赤い海の上空を
船が雄叫びをあげて飛んで行くのを
君は何もせずじっと見ている

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Song&Lyric : Maseru Takeda
Arrangement : yeti let you notice
Rec&Mix&Master : Satoru Fukushima

12/01「こもりうたe.p.」リリース

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