Tamayugé CA

Montréal-based duo of Ukrainian electronic musician and sound artist Tamara Filyavich, also known for Moose Terrific, and Japanese musician, artist and actor Maya Kuroki, also known for TEKE::TEKE

Tamayugé’s slippery electronic perspectives reflect the musicians’ respective Japanese and Ukrainian roots, drawing on age-old musical and cultural traditions while mining a briefer history of post punk, psychedelia and the experiments and off-kilter sound of early electronic music—and for extra drama, performance art. The duo’s incantations on synths, electric guitar, vocals and eerie effects seethe and howl to minimal electronic pulses, lulling listeners into a hypnotic state before delivering a shock of static and noise. Filyavich coaxes an unsettling dreamscape of ghostly noise and melody out of her synths—not unlike her solo endeavours and music in Moose Terrific with Sam Shalabi (Land Of Kush)—yet with a distinctly supernatural vibe, in part supplied by Maya Kuroki’s wildly phantasmagoric vocals and fuzzed out guitar. Having acted in and created music for stage and film for several years, Kuroki seamlessly bridges theatre and experimental rock in Tamayugé and in Montréal band TEKE::TEKE, a post-punk homage to legendary Japanese surf-rock guitarist Takeshi “Terry” Terauchi.