Macha (band)

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Macha (band)

Macha was an experimental post-rock

Post-rock

Post-rock is a genre of alternative rock characterized by the use of musical instruments commonly associated with rock music, but using rhythms, harmony, melodies, timbre, and chord progressions that are not found in rock tradition....
band from Athens, Georgia

Athens, Georgia

Athens-Clarke County is a Consolidated city-county in Georgia , United States, in the northeastern part of the state, at the intersection of U.S....
composed of brothers Josh McKay (multi-instrumentalist & ex-Aleka's Attic

Aleka's Attic

Aleka's Attic were an alternative folk/rock band from Gainesville, Florida, Florida formed by River Phoenix and his sister Rain Phoenix....
bassist), Mischo McKay (drums and name borrowed from a Japanese video game hero), Kai Reidl (multi-instrumentalist), & Wes Martin (multi-instrumentalist). Macha's music combines the precision tension-and-release post-punk of Mogwai

Mogwai

The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Yue Chinese word ?? meaning "monster", "evil spirit", "devil" or "demon"....
with the lush, hypnotic grind of My Bloody Valentine, along with bits of new wave and Indonesia

Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
n Gamelan

Gamelan

File:Javanese Gamelan.jpgA gamelan is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings....
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Macha was an experimental post-rock

Post-rock

Athens, Georgia

Aleka's Attic

Mogwai

Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
n Gamelan

Gamelan

Java

Java is an island of Indonesia and the site of its Capital city, Jakarta. Once the centre of powerful Hindu kingdoms, The spread of Islam in Indonesia , and the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies, Java now plays a dominant role in the economic and political life of Indonesia....
nese zither

Zither

The zither is a musical string instrument, most commonly found in Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, the southern regions of Germany, alpine Europe and East Asian cultures....
, Bali

Bali

Bali is an Indonesian island located at , the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 33 Provinces of Indonesia with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island....
nese bamboo flute

Bamboo flute

Flutes made of bamboo are found in many musical traditions.The Gamelan in Indonesia use them.Some bamboo flutes include:*Atenteben *Bansuri *Chi ...
, hammered dulcimer, Hawaii

Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
an slide guitar, talempong

Talempong

A talempong a small kettle gong which gives its name to an ensemble of four or five talempong as well as other gongs and drums. The term can refer to the instrument, the ensemble, or the genre of music....
nipple gongs

Gong

A gong is an East Asia and South East Asian musical instrument that takes the form of a flat metal disc which is hit with a mallet.Gongs are broadly of three types....
and Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and is the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by India....
ese shawm

Shawm

The shawm was a medieval and Renaissance musical instrument of the woodwind family made in Europe from the late 13th century until the 17th century....
s, vibraphone, standard voice, guitar, and drums, and a '70s-era thrift-store organ called the Fun Machine.

The band released their self-titled debut album in 1998 for Jetset Records

Jetset Records

Jetset Records was a Manhattan-based indie rock record label. The label has released a variety of independent bands, including Firewater, Sun Kil Moon and Mogwai....
. In 1999 they released See It Another Way (Jetset). They also teamed up with Bedhead a year later for the mini-album Macha Loved Bedhead (Jetset 2000). Four years since their last full-length, the group returned with Forget Tomorrow (Jetset 2004) expanding their sound and venturing into more pop territories.