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Samavayo Premiere “Intergalactic Hunt” Video; Dakota Reissue & Tour with The Machine Announced

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This October, Berlin progressive heavy rockers Samavayo will head out on tour with Dutch noisemakers-and-sometimes-jammers The Machine, doing a 10-show run that includes stops at Up in SmokeKeep it Low and the Setalight Festival. Hey, it’s a busy season. There are other shows besides, of course, and as Samavayo continue to support last year’s Vatan (review here), they’ve also announced a reissue for the prior outing, 2016’s Dakota (review here), which had also been re-pressed in 2017. As that record was their first as a three-piece, the revisit seems fair enough, and to mark the occasion, the band have a new video for “Intergalactic Hunt” that, well… well… well, it’s just great.

It’s got the band wearing foil hats and using drum hardware like laser guns. There’s a threat of a freak gasoline fight breaking out, and then they do battle with all manner of trashcans, from little R2-D2-looking ones to big ol’ dumpsters in the climax. I won’t spoil the ending, but yeah. It’s all pretty awesome.

You’ll find it at the bottom of the post. Enjoy:

“Dakota” was the first album SAMAVAYO released as a trio. Oriental influences became more and more apparent on this one and for the first time the whole album was recorded all live in analog recording technique – which meant a more organic sound and far more labor involved. With this record the band made a huge step leading to up to the follow up “Vatan” (2018 / Noisolution) that made the band rise from their status as scene-veteran to a true scene highlight.

“Dakota” is and has been sought after now more than ever – which has inevitably led to it being sold out by now. Fear not though: We’ve decided to make this gem available again for you and all fellow fans – and also just in time before the band is back on the road with STONED JESUS and later this year with THE MACHINE.

The special thing about Dakota is the mix of 70s and 90s rock sound that combines progressive instrumental parts and heavy mosh parts with oriental elements and unusual rhythms. The best example is the song „Arezooye Bahar“, which is SAMAVAYO´s 2nd song in Persian language. The Iranian singer, Behrang Alavi, sings about freedom. He himself was a political refugee and experienced bomb attacks at a very young age.

As a former applicant for asylum Behrang reacts to a current European topic that effects him deeply because of his own experiences. To celebrate the second release of “Dakota” there is also a new video to an “old” track: The instrumental “Intergalactic Hunt”. A video resembling a true little Sci-Fi-Crime film well worth seeing while featuring a soundtrack so brute and intergalactically heavy it’s gonna blow your mind right up into space!

Also: The title “Dakota“ stands for the North American native tribe of the same name and translates to „friend, ally“. SAMAVAYO have been playing together for more than a decade which has also made them grow together to musical allies. They are friends who have been creating a musical unity over the years. And to come full circle, that is the translation of SAMAVAYO: „Unity“

Tour dates:
Sat, JUL 20 – TBC, Germany
Sun, JUL 21 – Welcome To The Village Festival – Leeuwarden, Netherlands Antilles
Fri, JUL 26 – Sommerschein Festival – Hofheim Am Taunus, Germany
Sat, JUL 27 – Rock im Wald – Mosbach In Baden, Germany
Fri, AUG 16 – Voice Of Art Festival – Hohenstein-ernstthal, Germany
Thu, OCT 3 – The Machine & Samavayo – Tilburg, Netherlands
Fri, OCT 4 – Samavayo @ Up In Smoke Festival – Pratteln, Switzerland
Sat, OCT 5 – The Machine & Samavayo – Vortex, Siegen, Germany
Sun, OCT 6 – The Machine & Samavayo – Deventer, Netherlands
Mon, OCT 7 – The Machine & Samavayo – Hamburg, Germany
Tue, OCT 8 – The Machine & Samavayo – Kobenhavn, Denmark
Wed, OCT 9 – The Machine & Samavayo – Dortmund, Germany
Thu, OCT 10 – The Machine & Samavayo – Chemnitz, Germany
Fri, OCT 11 – Keep It Low Festival – Munich, Germany
Sat, OCT 12 – Setalight Festival 2019 – Berlin, Germany

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Samavayo, “Intergalactic Hunt” official video premiere

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