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Kuuluuko - Classic Rock Deconstructed
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Unwittingly, Kuuluuko (pronounced koo-LOO-koh) have gone blow for blow with all of rock music - and rock is running for cover.
From Cambridge, MA - this hypercharged duo brings major thunder to their deconstruction and rebuilding of post-modern Marshall-based blues. Guitarist Stephen Salazar writes and delivers thick, swampy, funk ass, killer riffs and vocals that evoke Hendrix and Kravitz at their grooviest.
Beside, between, betwixt and behind Salazar's balls-out, fuzz-box commitment is drummer Cullen Corley - a pure revelation at the corner of Bonham and Elvin Jones. There's plenty of space in the Kuuluuko sound, and Corley knows exactly how to fill it - or leave it be. His technical independence is wild, his jazz/rock/funk beats, grooves, fills and silence are all nuanced, often impossible and always devastating.
There's the Zeppelin meets White Stripes breakdown strange of "Fantastic Plastic", the Cream (even sans bass!!) infused 60's LP rush of "Faith" and the punk-prog Fugazi thrash of "Couldn't Tell She Was A Killer". In each we taste the passion fruit of pure creativity and originality - but we can also feel the solid, steady roots beneath our feet.
Kuuluuko asserts: "WE ARE HERE TO LIFT YOU!" Who are you to deny it?! Kuuluuko.
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