Buke and Gase: Riposte โย vinyl LP + compact disc
$12.99 - $19.99
Buke and Gase: Riposte โย vinyl LP + compact disc
$12.99 - $19.99
โThey both handle all sorts of foot percussion. The sounds are then filtered and processed, etc. It's compelling watching them kick and strum...but it was Arone Dyer's wailing, uplifting, melodic voice that left the biggest impression on me. You hear Beth Ditto for a second (one who races/fixes bikes and builds her own instruments, doesn't hang out at fashion shows), Kathleen Hanna in those Bikini Kill days, Throwing Muses, something else, etc., an overall joy." โ Brandon Stosuy for Stereogum
๐๐ช๐ฌ-๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฐ โRiposteโ by Buke & Gass
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ: September 13, 2010
๐ฆ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต โRevel In Contemptโ
๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐: steampunk prog-rock for podcast listeners ~ Deerhoof fronted by Elizabeth Fraser from the Cocteau Twins
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We "discovered" Buke and Gase (then known as Buke and Gass) via Aaron and Bryce Dessnerโs sister Jess, while she was helping to book a bar-slash-venue-slash-flower-shop in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. Singer Arone Dyer played a modified baritone ukelele ("buke"), and rhythm section-and-recording engineer Aron Sanchez a guitar-bass Franken-instrument ("gass" pronounced "gace"). They played percussion with their feet. Add in a mix of amps and pedals, and the result was a kinetic, creative sound world that offered listeners new discoveries on each replay.
When Jess tipped us off to them, we were immediately blown away that two people could generate so much sound. The music was loud yet folky, polyrhythmic yet melodic. The small DIY venues, warehouses and DIY spaces the band played at the time could hardly contain them.
As it turns out, soon after we found them, the audience for their surprising and nervy music would expand exponentially. The popular podcast Radiolab featured them on a brief episode entitled "The Loudest Miniature Fuzz" which was devoted entirely to their music. The next half-decade found the Aron(e)s swept up in the same art-punk zeitgeist that nurtured peers like Animal Collective and Dirty Projectors, helping them take their music far beyond New York City, building a devoted cult fanbase which endures to this day.
