Kanaan Confirm Spring and Summer Live Dates; Downpour Out Now
I won’t claim to know where Kanaan are going to end up, sound-wise, but where they are now is fascinating. Their 2023 album, Downpour (review here), came out earlier this month and sees the instrumental Norwegian trio with a well honed, almost carved-seeming, approach to heavy rock that owes as much to the direct, morally-objecting-to-frills riffing of Karma to Burn and the psych-jazz exploration of Causa Sui. And, most crucially, the record doesn’t fall apart from the disparity of those two sides.
Instead, Kanaan thrive on the righteousness of their straightforward grooves while using them also as a foundation for broader creative reach. This has set them among some of the brightest prospects in the next-gen European heavy underground — a grouping with a not-insignificant Norwegian contingent — and the fact that their approach is as malleable to their purposes as the new album portrays it is only going to help them as they continue to grow, hipefully garnering a likewise broader fanbase in the process.
To that end, they’ve got live shows lined up for the next few months that are already underway. They’ll be at Desertfest Berlin this weekend and Esbjerg Fuzztival, SonicBlast Fest, and Down the Hill this Spring and Summer, and unless they’re headed right back in the studio or, you know, stopping to catch their collective breath — which one needs to do every now and again — I wouldn’t be surprised if they picked up even more fests and/or club dates for after this list ends on Sept. 15.
On that too, we’ll have to wait and see. But as someone who’s been lucky enough to do so, I’ll tell you outright that if you can see this band play, even if their studio work hasn’t resonated with you yet, you should make efforts to do that.
Dates follow as per socials:
KANAAN – TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT
We’ve just added a row of European shows to our Downpour release tour, come catch us at one of these! First show tomorrow at Spillestedet Stengade in Copenhagen! Tour poster by Henrik Myrvold, all European shows booked by El Borracho Bookings
17/5 STENGADE, COPENHAGEN (DK)
18/5 SCHAUBUDE, KIEL (DE)
19/5 DESERTFEST, BERLIN (DE)
20/5 IMPORT EXPORT, MUNICH (DE)
21/5 CHELSEA, VIENNA (AT)
22/5 INSTANT, BUDAPEST (HU)
24/5 GOLDGRUBE, KASSEL (DE)
25/5 BAR 227, HAMBURG (DE)
26/5 ESBJERG FUZZTIVAL, ESBJERG (DK)
27/5 PLAN B, MALMÖ (SE)
28/5 VEGA BRYGGERI, GÖTEBORG (SE)
14/7 TUKIKOHTA, OULU (FI)
15/7 TIILITEHDAS, JOKELA (FI)
21/7 WMF, LOSHAUSEN (DE)
12/8 SONIC BLAST, MOLEDO (PT)
25/8 DE ONDERBROEK, NIJMEGEN (NL)
26/8 DOWN THE HILL, RILLAAR (BE)
27/8 DB’S, UTRECHT (NL)
28/8 LOLAPAROLI, AACHEN (NL)
29/8 FZW, DORTMUND (DE)
31/8 PIZZINI, BAMBERG (DE)
1/9 URBAN SPREE, BERLIN (DE)
2/9 TOR 9, BREMEN (DE)
5/9 L’INTERNATIONAL, PARIS (FR)
6/9 COLD CRASH, NANTES (FR)
7/9 LE CIRCUS, CAPBRETON (FR)
8/9 EL PERRO, MADRID (ES)
9/9 PARAL·LEL 62, BARCELONA (ES)
10/9 MOLOTOV, MARSEILLE (FR)
13/9 FREAKOUT, BOLOGNA (IT)
15/9 MOOD CLUB, MEMMINGEN (DE)
Kanaan features guitarist Ask Vatn Strøm, drummer Ingvald André Vassbø, and bassist Eskild Myrvoll.
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