Xinxin
Xinxin is going on tour with Lionmilk and will be in Portland and appearing at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR 97214) on MARCH 24th, doors at 8.
Here’s the lowdown from the Etix.com ticket page:
The new quickly, quickly EP finds Portland, Oregon’s Graham Jonson back in his home studio, engrossed in ‘60s psychedelic soul music, imagining some bygone era where it was all about the drum sounds and tape decay. He calls it Easy Listening; the songs are short and inviting, modest yet loaded with ideas. Each started with the drum part, a loose grid for Jonson to paint his idiosyncratic psych-pop across, again playing nearly every instrument. The set follows his 2021 LP, The Long And The Short of It, the 22-year-old musician’s debut on Ghostly International, a coming-of-age jump from the chill beats-oriented corners of the internet to a full-fledged songwriting project with hi-fi sophistication. The moment culminated with Pitchfork’s Rising profile, “quickly, quickly’s Technicolor Pop Bursts Beyond the Algorithm,” and kickstarted the formation of his 6-piece live band for a run of exploratory shows along the west coast. But as the tangible demands for his music pulled him outward and some growing pains in his personal life ensued, Jonson focused his energy back inside; to the comforts of home recording, filling his space with more gear and sessions with friends. Maybe a bit of a droll title for a hard time, Easy Listening briefly pauses for air, offering five of his breeziest basement jams for public enjoyment.
Lionmilk is Mokichi Kawaguchi: pianist, composer and producer. Born in LA, he grew up listening to his mother’s classical radio in the morning, his brother’s hip hop CDs during the day and his father’s jazz records in the evening. From the thriving underground electronic music scene to the expansive local jazz community, his work reflects his life path and the city’s ever changing tendencies.
XINXIN, pronounced “chin-chin”, is a genre-bending quartet from the suburbs of LA and the Inland Empire. Janize Ablaza (Vocals, guitar), Stephen Reed (drums), Carlos Elias (bass), and Jonah Huang (Keyboards), interplay expressively in efforts to channel the energy and honesty of the universal “child within”. As playful as it is spiritual, Xinxin strives to convey the range of the human experience in their music in which insecurity, humility, trauma, and peace coexist. This philosophy is paralleled by their eclectic influences which include grunge, jazz, metal, RnB, and electronic music. The four-piece debuted their first full-length album ‘Xinxin’ with Preference Records in November of 2020 that included their singles ‘Trust’ and ‘Control’ which received heavy rotation on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. You can experience their latest releases ‘In Perfect Time’ and ‘Clarity’ – perhaps in your car, on your way home from a long a** day of work – available now on all streaming platforms!
