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Kumiko Kimoto’s percussion setup – gongs, cymbal, cowbell, tambourine, Roto-tom tunable drum, electronic sound generator and a hubcap – just about summed up the music of Bosho. Bosho shares members with other downtown rock groups. Samm Bennett, its percussionist, is in semantics; Hahn Rowe, on guitar and violin, is in Hugo Largo; Davey Williams, on guitar, is in Curlew; Ms. Kimoto and Luli Shioi, on bass, are with Toh Ban Djan. Yuval Gabay, on drums, also has downtown experience. Like some of its associated bands as well as its fellow downtown bands No Safety and the President, Bosho is rediscovering the power of the riff. Its songs pile up short, punchy, interlocking phrases -crunching, clattering percussion in tandem with sustained chords or bluesy twangs and slides from the guitars – and then top them with melodies or noise. There are echoes of Little Feat and James Brown and more distant evocations of Oriental theater music. Chop Socky was released on vinyl by Dossier (ST 7531) in 1987.

Tracks:

1. The Box
2. Last Wishes
3. Relay
4. Chop Socky
5. Mai Ali Of Bornu
6. Rail
7. Collapso
8. Ain’t Got No Think
9. Unsunk
10. The Pan
11. Boy Yaca

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