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About Me

When Black Sabbath meets Kraftwerk on the ashes of Sonic Youth and LL Cool J, when bodies meet electricity through amplified guitar and bass, when voltage amplitude matches tempo through drum machine beats, when variation of air conductance between bodies and antennas alters pitches through theremin action, when moving airwaves sculpt atmosphere through emotive vocals... you might well be hearing keiki.

keiki is a post-electro-rock-whatever project by some naifu members. It's not nice, nor too much rehearsed, nor really happy but it might sometimes get you to shake your booty.

"naifu" is the japanese word for "knife", so "keiki" is the japanese word for "cake", but "fukeiki" just means "depression".

one of Else von Hohenzollern's paintings.
(ca. 1900, Prinzhorn collection)

here's a video for our song "Bitchy", shot by Dominique at Dial House, UK.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/20/2006
Band Members: dominique van cappellen-waldock: voice & theremin
raphael rastelli: guitar, programming & theremin
Influences: beastie boys, black sabbath, bailterspace, barkmarket, blonde redhead and other bands beginning with the letter "b"
Sounds Like: a cross between sonic youth, wu-tang clan, pixies, bjork and cheap electro bleeps... then you get some f*cked-up post-no wave melodies with lyrics about madness and love... all made through female vocal-guitar-bass-drum machine and, sometimes, other stuff.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

debut album out on Glock Music (UK)

Keiki is now on the UK-based label Glock Music. other artists on the label are Glockenspiel and Dukes of Pouch.www.glockmusic.com
Posted by keiki on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:19:00 PST

Twinkelding

Our debut album, "10 Pieces", is available via mail order on the lovely http://www.twinkelding.becheck our friend Wim's little shop, you'll find many fine records by artists such as Scraps of Tape, Wi...
Posted by keiki on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:15:00 PST

winning Studio Brussels Demopoll

on march 1st Keiki won that week's gold demo with the track 'Bitchy'.here's what jury member Allan Muller said about us:"Dit is geen demo, dit klinkt meer als de laatste in de UK geproducete en gemast...
Posted by keiki on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:02:00 PST

metal, disco, theremin and... erm, lyrics in German

Hello big world full of friends,That's it, we've finally uploaded "Ruhe", the last song of our first album "10 Pieces". It's one of our best songs as, while being all out metal, you can dance to it.It...
Posted by keiki on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:56:00 PST

Keiki in your kitchen

we've just played one of our warmest Keiki gigs, and I'm not saying that because I was standing with my theremin right next to a gas cooker. our friend Pauyel invited us to play at his house. there wa...
Posted by keiki on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:22:00 PST

some lyrics

I hate/ I likeI met him at the supermarketdidn't know what films he likedwhat a surprise when he told methere's this fab Bruce Willis film onhe said let's go out for a bite to eatI know where they ser...
Posted by keiki on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:05:00 PST

adding a new song named Bitchy

Hello there,So, as promised for a while, there is a new keiki song added for your listening pleasure. It's named 'Bitchy' because sometime that's how the weather is... well, not really for the moment ...
Posted by keiki on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:19:00 PST

the way of the samurai

Ghost Dog: the Way of the Samurai. Did you see that Jim Jarmush's film? His "samurai" (Forest Whitaker) is that super-efficient and philosophical contract killer. His way: hide, stays unnoticed, inact...
Posted by keiki on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:15:00 PST