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August 14, 2024BO NINGEN Reveal New Single ‘Pantheon Bar’ Released 7th August 2024 / Announce August 2024 UK Dates + ArcTanGent Festival Appearance + November 2024 EU Dates / The Holy Mountain Alternative Soundtrack Album Out Now
Japanese alt-rock band BO NINGEN are delighted to reveal their new single ‘Pantheon Bar’ set for release on 7th August 2024 via Alcopop! Records.
To celebrate, the quartet will be performing a special BBC 6music live to air session for Marc Riley at 9pm on Monday 12th August, playing 2 tracks from Holy Mountain and 2 from their last studio album Sudden Fictions.
The news comes ahead of a freshly-announced run of August 2024 UK live dates including an appearance on the main stage at ArcTanGent Festival, and a new run of November 2024 EU tour dates, with tickets on sale now.
BO NINGEN released their alternative soundtrack album to cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s seminal film The Holy Mountain earlier this year via Alcopop! Records. The band also hosted a very special SOLD OUT live performance of their alternative soundtrack at EartH, Hackney—a 700 capacity tiered seated venue with original Art Deco features and state of the art L-ISA sound system, to provide the best possible experience of this must-see-and-hear event.
Commenting on the new single, guitarist Yuki Tsujii said: “Pantheon Bar is a rather weird choice for a single. This warped, and somehow hilarious, track doesn’t really go anywhere but when we came to think about the next single, we realised the score has such a significant role in the film’s narrative. “
“This track is scored for the scene of Pantheon Bar where people ended up being lost in search of The Holy Mountain, and it’s about those losers whose dreams got shattered. They’re like in limbo, between reality and The Holy Mountain, and we wanted to express the insanity, the state of your mind being completely pleasantly bent.”
The band were also recently announced to curate Le Guess Who? Festival 2024 in the Netherlands this year alongside Arooj Aftab, Crystallmess, DARKSIDE, Mabe Fratti and Touching Bass.
BO NINGEN’s curation is dedicated to “representing the BO NINGEN community, with lots of collaborative projects and with a strong focus on audiovisual performances.” The band will also present their own alternate live score to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 magnum opus The Holy Mountain.
New single ‘Pantheon Bar’ is released 7th August 2024