KANAAN (nor/jansen) • Leipzig • UT Connewitz

In the organizer's words:

"Kanaan has taken the "single" format to a new dimension: The track "Beyond" is almost 28 minutes long. Kanaan play instrumental psychedelic and space rock: rough, powerful, sometimes spacy and wafting..." (WDR / Rockpalast)

Kanaan produce so much music that the fuzz pedals hardly need to be switched off between sessions. Once again they step out of the rehearsal room, and in their luggage they have the album "Downpour".

It's not hard to hear that this is a continuation of their previous album "Earthbound", and many of the ideas for "Downpour" came about when they were recording the previous album at Athletic Sound in Halden, where this one was also recorded. The heaviest songs on the album are a continuation of the idea of "The Great Riff" and the feeling of overwhelm and ecstasy when one good riff is replaced by another. As for these parts, bands like Kyuss, MC5, Sleep and Hawkwind are still great sources of inspiration - while "Needlepoint" and "Dungen" were important for the more melodic material on the album.

The band themselves say they feel that the chemistry and songwriting on this record allows them to own the rock language they flirted with on "Earthbound" to a greater degree, and it feels like a worthy continuation of a record that was very important to the band's history. It's hard not to agree with that.

T I C K E T S is available online at tixforgigs (link below the picture).

Price information:

plus Geb.