So this one time, at band camp, God and his buddies smuggled vodka into their dorm rooms and got super wasted. After a late night of rompus dancing and over-sharing-dark-secrets-and-insecurities, God became rapt with hunger. After staring longingly at his empty cupboards and fridge drawers, he started getting creative. Using whatever scraps of material he could scrounge from his now completely trashed quarters, God blended together a late-night drunken treat: Little Dragon.
The band Little Dragon, formed in 2006, is a living, breathing, singing, juxtaposition of things that don't go together. Little Dragon's lead singer is Japanese, the band is based in Sweden, they sing alternative R&B/Soul and their album art looks like Terry Gilliam's work from Monty Python . Besides the Muslim Midget Mandolin Machine, they are no doubt one of the most interestingly diverse bands currently recording. The off-beat nature of their allure definitely adds to their mystique, but on their own merits they are simply an original, progressive, musically sound band in every way.
Here is the track, "Twice" off of their 2007 self-titled album "Little Dragon"
(The video is also stunning)
And here is the track, "Blinking Pigs" off of their second album, "Machine Dreams"
So far all you Japanese Swedish girls looking to land a role in "Dream Girls," thank me for introducing you to your hero later.
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The first song is pretty cool...where did you find out about these folks? And I googled Muslim Midget Mandolin Machine only to be dismayed to find you had made it up....I was looking forward to some tiny Islamic jam band electronic adventures
ReplyDeleteFriend of mine in Journalism one day showed me their song "Feather" and I just went from there. He had challenged himself to find a band that I liked but also hadn't heard of, and he totally got me.
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