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Akatombo

Interview: Akatombo

Interview: Akatombo

Pollution takes so many forms, and the music of Hiroshima’s Akatombo (aka Paul Thomsen Kirk) is like a filthy assemblage of all of them. I’m not just talking about cityscape smog (of which there is plenty here, albeit translated into white noise and the echoes of concrete spaces)

Review: Akatombo - Sometime, Never

I sink into the sewer networks that exist beneath my feet, far below the concrete. The eternal lack of light lays waste to all perception of time passing, leaving the rhythms of techno and industry to repeat indefinitely, obliviously. The air vibrates with the low hum of nearby electrical cables,

Review: Akatombo - False Positives

Rhythm is the harness in False Positives; the one grounding element that prevents the listener from becoming lost and overwhelmed by Akatombo’s eclectic mix of texture plucked from all sorts of genre extremities. Sound rises up in waves, taking fleeting spells in the foreground before fading within the fresh