Afrirampo split, live webcast 6/26 over UStream

Pica and Oni, the Japanese duo Afrirampo, have decided to call it a day after eight years, and are performing what's promised to be a three to four hour blowout farewell over UStream TV Saturday, June 26th at 7PM Japan-time. I had the pleasure of hosting Afrirampo live on two programs here at WFMU (both sessions for download below via the Free Music Archive) during their span, and each time it has blown the collective minds of myself and many listeners. Not just a guitar/drum duo, these sisters harness an entire universe of sound from every recess of their brains and bods and splatter it against the walls at their leisure, alternating from dense, prog-like barrages that constitute what could be a de-testosteroned Lightning Bolt (whom they toured with in 2005 here), to reverb-drenched spaced out excursions though a jungle that evokes the Creatures or Bjork (if Bjork had been raised by actual wild animals), but wilder and more free than any of those above bands while still incorporating structure to their songs. The band calls themselves "naked soul rock", and it doesn't get any more naked the Baka Ga Kita, 2004 recordings of the ladies cohabitating for a month in Cameroon with an actual tribe of Baka Pygmies. Just one side of a diverse, fascinating discography where the band never quite established any particular genre leaning, instead focusing on the joy of sound. We'll miss ya, Afrirampo!

Comments

[Jason]

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_JP.aspx <-- looks like that's 5am NY/NJ time

[Lee]

Thank you so frickin much. I might have missed it. I had tears in my punk rock eyes at the end. Unspeakable beauty.
arigato wfmu. I promise to never go to reddit again. WFMU!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How can anything as wonderful as you folks exist within humanity?
You are loved.

[fred]

Thanks Brian. That show was awesome. I wish I had been there, but that broadcast was the next best thing. I'm sad I won't see them play again, but that was a great way to say goodbye. Thanks for the music and the memories, Pica and Oni, and best of luck in whatever you do next.

[Tor H Tor]

An Off-Topic question for FMUers.

There 'twere a late night music video televison show with a opening theme song that went something like this...
"Best time to be in the house, Friday night don’t get no better. We got hiphop, bebop and R & B, it’s the best radio on your TV."

Would/could anyone tell moi the show's title?

Methinks FMUers WILL know this sooooo, orrrrrr just about anything musical,
Thank You.

Stay on groovin' safari,
Tor