10 x 4 – Pinkunoizu
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# 10 x 4 – Pinkunoizu
**Pinkunoizu** -- which means "pink noise" in Japanese -- is a
Copenhagen/Berlin-based difficult-to-categorize band who dropped their
acclaimed debut album *Free Time Volume One* last year via **Moringside
Records**. Their ***Peep EP*** was recently released as a limited and
already sold-out 12? through **Full Time Hobby** and crosses so many
musical boundaries that we were just blown away. Take the first track:
'Time Is Like A Melody' could reasonably be called 'underwater lo-fi'.
It immediately evokes **Animal Collective** with its submerged,
repetitive vocals, background reverb and looping electric guitar.
The band themselves describe their blend as "lo-fi, high-life, modern
composition music, nu-folklore, asian 60?s pop and future
post-apocalyptic underwater rock". The EP features an incredible mix of
xylophones, radio dials and more conventional instrumentations in 3/4
time, leaving us massively excited for their follow-up LP, set to drop
in early 2012. Time to play our **10 x 4** series with
Pinkunoizu-mastermind **Andreas Pallisgaard**:
**Method or madness?**
The maddest of methods.
**Most influential person?**
[Gilles Deleuze][1]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener"}
**First musical love?**
Nirvana
Last musical love?
[Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey][2]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener"}
**One thing you cannot live with out?**
Coffee
**One thing you would live without if you could?**
Money
**Favourite instrument?**
[The Geiger counter][3]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener"} perhaps. Has
a cool sound.
**Eureka moment?**
Just today I was thinking how that is what I really miss these days. I
feel like I've seen through everything -- in a totally awkward manner.
As if there is not much more to discover. Probably the stupidest of
feelings one can have.
**Secret tip?**
If you smash a salad head down in the table with the root pointing
downwards, you can easily remove that root, and you'll have nice crisp
salad in whole leaves. Huh?!
**Last thing that inspired you?**
Probably a concert with Keiji Haino, Stephen O'Malley and Oren Ambarchi
as a trio playing Hau 2 in Berlin about a month ago. That was incredibly
blasting, and massive as hell. Heino especially was interesting to
experience -- his way of enacting everything he plays on his guitar is
way beyond.
[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKe4jePXP0E
[2]: http://africanmusic.org/artists/obey.html
[3]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9PZNJ970M8
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<p><strong>Pinkunoizu</strong> – which means “pink noise” in Japanese – is a Copenhagen/Berlin-based difficult-to-categorize band who dropped their acclaimed debut album <em>Free Time Volume One</em> last year via <strong>Moringside Records</strong>. Their <em><strong>Peep EP</strong></em> was recently released as a limited and already sold-out 12? through <strong>Full Time Hobby</strong> and crosses so many musical boundaries that we were just blown away. Take the first track: ‘Time Is Like A Melody’ could reasonably be called ‘underwater lo-fi’. It immediately evokes <strong>Animal Collective</strong> with its submerged, repetitive vocals, background reverb and looping electric guitar.</p><p>The band themselves describe their blend as “lo-fi, high-life, modern composition music, nu-folklore, asian 60?s pop and future post-apocalyptic underwater rock”. The EP features an incredible mix of xylophones, radio dials and more conventional instrumentations in 3/4 time, leaving us massively excited for their follow-up LP, set to drop in early 2012. Time to play our <strong>10 x 4</strong> series with Pinkunoizu-mastermind <strong>Andreas Pallisgaard</strong>:</p><p><strong>Method or madness?</strong><br>
The maddest of methods.</p><p><strong>Most influential person?</strong><br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKe4jePXP0E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gilles Deleuze</a></p><p><strong>First musical love?</strong><br>
Nirvana</p><p>Last musical love?<br>
<a href="http://africanmusic.org/artists/obey.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey</a></p><p><strong>One thing you cannot live with out?</strong><br>
Coffee</p><p><strong>One thing you would live without if you could?</strong><br>
Money</p><p><strong>Favourite instrument?</strong><br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9PZNJ970M8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Geiger counter</a> perhaps. Has a cool sound.</p><p><strong>Eureka moment?</strong><br>
Just today I was thinking how that is what I really miss these days. I feel like I’ve seen through everything – in a totally awkward manner. As if there is not much more to discover. Probably the stupidest of feelings one can have.</p><p><strong>Secret tip?</strong><br>
If you smash a salad head down in the table with the root pointing downwards, you can easily remove that root, and you’ll have nice crisp salad in whole leaves. Huh?!</p><p><strong>Last thing that inspired you?</strong><br>
Probably a concert with Keiji Haino, Stephen O’Malley and Oren Ambarchi as a trio playing Hau 2 in Berlin about a month ago. That was incredibly blasting, and massive as hell. Heino especially was interesting to experience – his way of enacting everything he plays on his guitar is way beyond.</p>
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# 10 x 4 – Pinkunoizu **Pinkunoizu** -- which means "pink noise" in Japanese -- is a Copenhagen/Berlin-based difficult-to-categorize band who dropped their acclaimed debut album *Free Time Volume One* last year via **Moringside Records**. Their ***Peep EP*** was recently released as a limited an...
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**Most influential person?** [Gilles Deleuze][1]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener"} **First musical love?** Nirvana Last musical love. [Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey][2]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener"} **One thing you cannot live with out?** Coffee **One thing you would live without...