Taken from their second album This Is The Second Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank (well.. what else did you think it was going to be called?), ‘International Dreambeat’ is the sound of rainbows played on guitars. It’s the theme tune to the inside of Lar, Mick and Vinny’s brain and it kicks off the album in perfect fashion. You can just see the confetti, the parades and crazy Japanese manga characters. Something like this?
The 40-minute album certainly is steeped in Japanese influence from the band’s three tours there. It’s a dizzying album of mostly instrumental music, not really a rock album as such, as the first album was. It’s more varied and sounds like nothing anybody else is doing anywhere. Vocoders, synths, marimbas, guitar riffs that would be comfortable soundtracking a level on a vintage platform game, big drums and even some ’80s basslines. Guests include Conor O’ Brien from Villagers who provides vocals on ‘Europa’ and Jape plays synths on the last track ‘Century City’. The album is released August 20th on The Richter Collective in Ireland, BSM Records in UK and in October on Parabolica Records in Japan. The band have tour dates starting this weekend, listed after the jump.
Adebisi Shank – ‘International Dreambeat’
30 Jul – Stiff Kitten – Belfast
31 Jul – Castlepalooza Festival – Tullamore, Offaly
1st August -Indiependence Festival – Mitchelstown, Cork
5th August – Roisin Dubh – Galway
6th August – Forfey Festival
20th August – Album Launch – Dublin, Whelans
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Anyone know where the album was recorded?
“The album was recorded and produced by the band in various locations around Ireland and mixed and mastered by TJ Lipple in Washington DC.”
The album was produced by the band and Stephen J. Caffrey and recorded in different locations around Ireland it was Mixed and Mastered by TJ Lipple in his home in Washington.
The artwork looks great. The song appears to be unavailable. I think we can imagine… Frantic drums bass and guitars. No real soul but a bit of crack for the drunken masses. They sound perfectly Richter Collective.
It’s working fine now. Just a Soundcloud kink for the first few minutes while it was generating the waveform.
Good call. Are they parodying themselves? I don’t like this one bit.
Never really liked their older stuff. I know people who adore what they do, but sadly, it does nothing for me.
😀 That’s just awesome. Love the cover, psychedelic Tron zebras.
Thanks for info Nialler.
I don’t know. I hate to use the words ‘chiptune’ and ‘Muse’ but I’m at a bit of a loss to be honest.
I think it’s great. Totally optimistic, like a futuristic Jetson Japanese circus intro.
Excellent tune. Looking forward to hearing its eastern craziness live!
reminds me of that battles track where they used chipmunk vocals.
Not so good.
plenty of soul… fun formulaic frantic 64-bit soul
Starts off a bit dodge I think but overall it’s very good. Really surprised by the direction though.
Unreal.
Thought their first album was really repetitive to listen through. Now this sounds like a bad Battles homage. Vinny should just focus on his Club.
The direction is progression..awesome & brave
I want to plunge my sax into this tune. ALMIGHTY.
Loved the first album and EP, thought it was all really catchy and in a word, bopping. Glad to see the guys throwing us a follow-up fairly promptly.
The track caught me a bit off guard. The song structure is a bit more formulaic than I’d expected and the mad new sounds were a surprise, but that’s cool. It’s new material, and I like the band so I’ll give it a few listens and I’m sure it’ll grow on me. They still have the great other recordings so I’ll still be listening to them for a while yet.
Fantastic, just abso-bloody-fantastic
Whopper!
I remember this from the gig in Twistey. Funkin AWESOME!
Album launch 20th August???
NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Nice! Totally going to pirate this when it gets released.
spank my shank, that was fucking bonza!
Sounds great
I’d love the tune if it wasn’t Shank.. if that makes any sense?!
I feel that it’s a bit.. linear..
Great effort all the same. Love the tones.
Looking forward to the album.
Serious ripper.
think this is trying too hard, 80s tron graphic and hipsters zebra tee shirt image. like the track though, brave. better that their usual.
Been dying to get home all day to listen to this.
Worth the wait, nice work fellas!!!
Nice. Wasn’t sure when it started but by the end I was loving it. Can’t wait for the album.
Cool song, nice to see the lads are working hard to drive in a new direction.
Fair play to the ‘Shank!
Smiled the whole way through this. Reserving judgment till the album though…
Wow, sounds like a bit of Paul Lansky’s Idle Chatter in it there, I like it..
It’s a grower for sure and is slowly becoming the theme tune to the inside of MY brain as well. Jolly good work lads!
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