In 2015 the band toured extensively through Europe with appearances at Eindhoven Psych Lab and Duna Jam. The band continued to tour throughout 2014 and made their first appearance in the UK that October selling out several shows in London. "Mammatus Clouds" was pressed onto 12" LP by both Cardinal Fuzz Records (UK) and Captcha Records (US) in June 2014. in April 2014 in support of the record with appearances at Desert Daze Austin Psych Fest Due to high demand their S/T record was reissued on Cassette tape by Burger Records and a new tape by the name of "Mammatus Clouds" was released on the eclectic Sky Lantern Records in Tucson, Arizona. Their second LP "Forest of Lost Children" was released on by Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records based in Brooklyn, New York. This inspired the group to go abroad: their first tour took place in America where they played the Levitation festival in 2014. Furthermore, the crowds were mostly made up of foreigners. In an interview, Go says “ most people don’t like this kind of thing, they like following the rules”. The band did however not gain any major progress either way. The group also made an attempt to set up psyche festivals around Tokyo, charging about five dollars for entry, with the aim of providing a cheap and accessible music scene. Therefore, the band started busking on Tokyo streets, outside of busy train stations. According to Go Kurosawa in an interview, bands have to pay around 300$ for a 30-35 minute show. Kikagaku Moyo did not find any great success in Japan, one reason for that being the expensive live shows, since Japanese music venues have a system of charging bands instead of paying them for live shows. This style is especially present on their self-titled debut album. Since most of the members weren’t technically proficient, they decided to adopt a psychedelic, meditative style, as an utilitarian approach to play music together. So only after we started playing, after one year, we started sharing.”. In an interview, Go says “We tried to talk, “What have you been listening to?” We could never share anything. Go had a mixed music taste and was the only one listening to psychedelic rock while Tomo preferred power pop, Kotsoguy black metal and Daoud hip-hop. The members didn’t have much in common when it comes to musical taste. Around the same time, the band’s sitarist Ryu Kurosawa, who is Go's brother, joined the band after coming back from India. Tomo met their second guitarist Daoud Popal in a smoking area at the college Go and Tomo were attending. They eventually met their bassist Kotsoguy who was recording sounds from a vending machine on the street for a drone project. They started with putting up signs and handing out posters at their college. They specifically sought people who didn’t have much experience like Go and Tomo themselves, but wanted to play music together. ĭissatisfied with their sound, Go and Tomo soon went out to search for more people to join the band. Initially, the two often played together in an old studio where their friend worked, from midnight to morning, the reason for that being the high price of playing in the studio during the day. Though Go had played piano and Tomo knew the cello, both of them had little to no prior experience in the instruments they wanted to play in the band. Having similar interests in music, fashion and movies, they decided to start playing music together. In the summer of 2012 in Tokyo, Go Kurosawa - who came to be the drummer in what would become Kikagaku Moyo - met Tomo Katsurada - the future guitarist - who had come back from studying film in the US. Tomo and I both wanted to have a Japanese name with Kanji characters, so it was decided pretty quickly.”. I was totally in the “zone”, half awake and half asleep, but my hands were tapping the drums involuntarily. In a 2014 interview with the It’s Psychedelic Baby! magazine, Go recalls the moment at which he came up with the name: “It means geometric patterns, which I saw on the back of my eyelids after jamming all night long. Kikagaku Moyo (in Japanese Kanji 幾何学模様, transliterated Kikagaku Moyō) translates to “geometric patterns”, which the drummer Go Kurosawa suggested as a band name after getting visuals caused by sleep deprivation during a long jam session at night.
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