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Returning with news of third studio album Planet Odyssey 64 - due 30th October via Siluh Records (The Homesick, Tramhaus, Topsy Turvy) - cult Viennese psych outfit Takeshi’s Cashew share synth-fuelled krautrock cut ‘Operator’. Honing in on their longheld fondness for medieval folk melodies and classic loop-based videogame soundtracks for the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Advance, the band channel their expansive pan-european cosmo-funk instrumentals into more focused yet fantastical realms on Planet Odyssey 64 and call it “psych medieval Nintendo Core”. Streamlining the diverse instrumentation of their previous works into a deliberately minimalist 8-bit amalgam of drum machines, Roland SH-101 electric bass, chiptune synths, and singular guitar sounds - Floran Feit’s distinctive flute is still a flamboyant presence throughout - the band confront the challenge of a third album head-on, and tickle that burning, creative itch to mix things up and make a ‘concept’ album. “We had dipped our toes into a pool of diverse genres.”, explains bassist and guitarist Jassin Bshary. “Instead of the previous opulence with fifty different instruments, this time we wanted to create something cohesive.” Recorded at drummer’s Tobias Blessing’s studio at the premises of the Kollektiv Kaorle - the venue where new label Siluh Records regularly hosts gigs - Planet Odyssey 64 presents a friendly adventure playground that unfolds like a space capsule, teleporting you through its trials of chairlifts and ice palaces and deserts, of fire, earth, water and air, before returning back to yourself in joyful transformation.
