Next weeks sees Parisian neo psych duo Yeti Lane playing with former Can vocalist and genuine Krautrock legend Damo Suzuki.
The former Can singer has toured for the last few years without a regular band, instead hooking up with local musicians or bands to make each perfomance unique.
I've seen Suzuki perform a couple of times. I have to be honest to say that I found it a bit patchy at times, but given that musicians were working together for the first time and pushed to the limit of their ability in terms of improvisation skills it was a thrilling thing to see.
While it may have been the kind of thing that bands from Suzuki's era were familiar with, in these days of autotune and autocue, bands genuinely working without a safety net are quite a subversive proposition.
Yeti lane's second album, The Echo Show, the band's second. was an assured take on modern psychedelia and prog rock, resolutely modern rather than trying to re-created a genre. As much influenced by My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3 as by Pink Floyd.
Their new single Warning Sensation is released on Monday, in remixed form with versions by Warm Digits and by School of Seven Bells.
The crossover with Suzuki's Krautrock stylings could be quite something, Get along to the shows if you can.
Yeti Lane dates:
June 18 – Brighton – Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar
June 20 – Manchester – KRAAK
June 21 – London – The Shacklewell Arms (with Damo Suzuki and Andrew Weatherall)
June 22 – Norwich Arts Centre
