Poi Dog Pondering are ready for action in 2008 with a new album due April 1st and a US tour April-May. The new album, self-described as a "rock and soul record," is titled 7 as it's the band's seventh studio recording. 7 features 14 tracks of horns, strings, guitars that are "sometimes shimmery and liquid, & sometimes crunch and gristle," synths, bass, drums and beautiful harmonies and will ...
Using a wide variety of instruments, Poi Dog Pondering altered the traditional verse-chorus-bridge structure of modern popular music. In some songs, melodic interludes entirely replace choruses, featuring lengthy, intricate solos blending the tin whistle, violin, trumpet, or other instruments in the Poi Dog menagerie (e.g. "Living with the Dreaming Body", "Bury me Deep"). Some Polynesian influe...
and i do not know more that just this...but did you know that poi dog pondering got their start in Hawaii? And apparently there've been a slew of bands who went to Hawaii to find an appreciative audience? And there's even a punk rock museum on the Beautiful Island that I've sadly never been to! A very fun informative read at metafilter.Aloha!
Poi Dog Pondering are ready for action in 2008 with a new album due April 1st and a US tour April-May. The new album, self-described as a "rock and soul record," is titled 7 as it's the band's seventh studio recording. 7 features 14 tracks of horns, strings, guitars that are "sometimes shimmery and liquid, & sometimes crunch and gristle," synths, bass, drums and beautiful harmonies and will ...
Using a wide variety of instruments, Poi Dog Pondering altered the traditional verse-chorus-bridge structure of modern popular music. In some songs, melodic interludes entirely replace choruses, featuring lengthy, intricate solos blending the tin whistle, violin, trumpet, or other instruments in the Poi Dog menagerie (e.g. "Living with the Dreaming Body", "Bury me Deep"). Some Polynesian influe...