Announcing a Feb-March 2008 European tour for two experimental
psych-rock combos: Japan's Up-Tight <http://www.myspace.com/
uptight001>, and Primordial Undermind <http://www.myspace.com/
primordialundermind>, from Vienna by way of Texas. The bands are
touring together around an appearance at the incredible KRAAK Festival
in Brussels on March 1st.

tue Feb 26 Molodoi Strasbourg, F
wed Feb 27 Paradox Tilburg, NL
thu Feb 28 Helbaard den Haag, NL
fri Feb 29 Ateliers Mommen Brussels, B (Primordial Undermind only)
sat Mar 1 Kraak Fest Brussels, B (Up-Tight only)
sun Mar 2 De Bogaard Geel, B
mon Mar 3 FFUS Stuttgart, G
tue Mar 4 Kulturbunker Mühlheim Köln, G
wed Mar 5 Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin, G (Up-Tight only)
thu Mar 6 Kunstkeller o27 Fürth, G
fri Mar 7 Zoro Leipzig, G
sat Mar 8 Chateau Rouge Prague, CR
mon Mar 10 B72 Vienna, A

Up-Tight: With their ominous distorted guitar epics, burnt-out ballads
and raucous mantric jams, Up-Tight head up the new generation of
Japanese rock acts following in the footsteps of Fushitusha, Acid
Mother's Temple, and Les Rallizes Denudes. Their intense playing
displays startling post-Velvet Underground moves, with impassioned
fathomless vocals floating on top of loose, acid-fried garage jams of
hypnotic guitar squall . Up-Tight have released 4 critically-acclaimed
albums on the Alchemy(Japan), Static(UK), and Galactic Zoo(US) labels,
including a mind-blowing collaboration with the Acid Mothers' Makoto
Kawabata.

Up-Tight Press: "Blending brutalised tripping improv freak-outs with
cosmic induced melodic soft psych... the influence of heroes Velvet
Underground are keenly apparent, bleeding as they do into elements of
early Floyd, Sabbath and Spacemen 3" - Losing Today
"Sabbath-styled dynamics, earsplitting acid leads and beautiful
Velvets-inspired ballads... Just when you thought you'd got to grips
with Tokyo's paradigm-destroying psych scene,this one hits like a
sucker punch" - The Wire

Primordial Undermind: Mining the further regions of avant psych-rock
for the past 15 years, PU leader Eric Arn began in the legendary
Crystalized Movements (the Twisted Village flagship which spawned
Magic Hour and Major Stars) in the 1980's . A rotating membership
typifies the band, and a restlessness to stay put underlies a steady
progression from distorted, psychedelic Nuggets-esque overload to full-
blown free instrumental rock, and everything in between. Just before
relocating from Austin, Texas to Vienna, Austria in 2005, The band
recorded 'Loss of Affect' (2006), the most outré document of the
Primordial Undermind sound, for the Strange Attractors label. They've
released 5 previous albums on Emperor Jones (US), Camera Obscura
(Aus), and September Gurls (Ger).

Primordial Press: "Reverberating with primitive hallucinogenic drones,
garage rock grinds and improvisations that slowly build from half-
formed blowouts to cosmic Stockhausen-style epics... PU have crawled
out of the psychedelic undergrowth and evolved into something special"
- Edwin Pouncey, The Wire
"Words like trippy and psychedelic were invented for this kind of
music, but they seem inadequate here... try "revelatory" instead" -
Jennifer Kelly, Popmatters