The Frequency: Live Music Venue, Madison, Wisconsin

YOKANIZU PROJECT w/ The Jim Pullman Band, Electric Spanking
June 2, 10:00 PM
Ages: 18+

YOKANIZU PROJECT w/ The Jim Pullman Band, Electric Spanking

The Yokanizu Project is a Roots-Rock-Raggae band that hails from our very own Madison WI. Before officially forming in 2005, this quartet worked with various other muscians in the jam scene. After implementing fusion oriented jams with funky overtones, they had finally found the sound that they were seeking. The Yokanizu Project has played numerous venues from Minneapolis to Milwaukee, always keeping their fans on their toes with their unpredictable jams, and stage antics

Jim Pullman Band - Music in its purest form makes the listener reminisce , It takes them back to a place in time. It conjures up emotions that had since been forgotten. They can relate to the lyrics, the melodies, the mood. It makes them feel. Jim Pullman’s latest work“Jackals and Wolves” does an impeccable job of this. Jackals and Wolves aims for Jim Pullman at his most essential and honest. Its a snapshot of a rockstar unresolved, meandering a lonesome landscape of hard truths and attractive wrong answers. The fruit of a year's worth of recording and even more time spent writing, Pullman once again teamed up with longtime friend and Audio Engineer: Jaime Hansen (Justin Vernon, S. Carey, Digitata), and enlisted a who’s who of Eau Claire area musicians to help flesh out the album. Final Mastering was done at Magneto Mastering in Minneapolis by Bruce Templeton (Gayngs, Atmosphere, Dillinger Four) The result is a seamless body of work, combining modern power pop with the friendly familiarity of easy '90s rock, at times reminiscent of bands like R.E.M. Made ominous by spacey guitars and mournful pedal steel, the mood of the music matches Pullman's theme of loss and returns to his songwriting roots, tapping into more personal subject matter. The album kicks off with whooshing air and guitar squeals giving way to Revolving Door, a strong rock song with a hook suggesting the best of Oasis, and rallies to an end with righteous guitar soloing punctuated by slams of grand piano. Then follows You Don’t Dump the Boys, They Just Lose Their Turn, an odd, sardonic track recalling The Turtles’ HappyTogether, were it frolicking with the gleeful madness of an anxious and hopeless bar patron. Sonically, the album lends a more lonesome tone than previous releases, although it’s the band’s the most dynamic and well-arranged. Providing the record’s most lofty and dramatic moments, Levitate opens with a flowing and majestic string quartet and takes the listener on a dream like journey. 50 Paces seems inspired by the lonely road ballads of Bob Seger, with a spacey and atmospheric pedal steel by Bronson Bergeson. And not to be outdone by other songs’ twisted-yet-tender moments, the album closer Feather Soft Heart (#7) reconsiders the other songs’ hard-bitten realism. Between soft percussion breaks and hushed piano progressions, Jim posits the question that, if we could set aside the defensive sarcasm for a couple minutes, could we build the courage to consider what we had was pretty good all along? http://www.jimpullman.com/