MAHJONNG ON TOUR !
!! SHOWS !!
03 Dec 2010 UK Bristol - In Between Time
04 Dec 2010 UK Leeds - Brudenell Social Club
05 Dec 2010 UK Minehead - ATP Festival
06 Dec 2010 UK London - Corsica Studios
07 Dec 2010 FR Paris St Ouen - Mains d'Oeuvres
08 Dec 2010 DE Köln - Sonic Ballroom
09 Dec 2010 DK Aalborg - 1000Fryd
10 Dec 2010 NO Oslo - Revolver
11 Dec 2010 NO Bergen - Landmark
13 Dec 2010 DE Hamburg - Hafenklang
14 Dec 2010 DE Dresden - Altes Wettbüro
15 Dec 2010 DE Berlin - Marie Antoinette
16 Dec 2010 DE Leipzig - Skala
17 Dec 2010 DE Würzburg - Immerhin
18 Dec 2010 CH Lausanne - Le Romandie w/ ÜBERREEL
19 Dec 2010 IT Bologna - Locomotiv
20 Dec 2010 IT Faenza - Clandestino
21 Dec 2010 IT Napoli - Napoli
22 Dec 2010 IT Rome - Circolo Degli Artist

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ABOUT THE BAND :
Mahjongg thrills, trills, and hits notes that only canines comprehend. Mahjongg employs equal opportunity in their invincible desire to thwart and impress density; fun-avatar vs. political rabble-rouser, they make music for the whole world. Imagine a triangle with several smaller triangles attached to each of its sides, and even smaller triangles attached to each of those, and so on. In math, we call this a Koch snowflake. Why not do the same in Music? Use musical notes, adding smaller notes within each one, and smaller ones within those, and so on. Or go the other way, and start with a small pattern and build it up to larger and larger structures.

No one with ears will listen to Mahjongg and be depressed. Artists of the rock-era, Mahjongg is basically a bar band who got lucky. Their debut K debut Kontpab [KLP191] announced a big noise in the music scene: a grudge match with its fans resulted in the reluctant release of “Free Grooverider,” [DBN114] their first protest song. Mahjongg thrills, trills, and hits notes that only canines comprehend. If you’ve only seen their live, you’ll be impressed by how much has changed in so short a time: abandoning traditional song form and progressions, the tunes here are built around layers of keyboards, guitars, and percussion parts that wind around each other in an almost fugue like manner. With The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger [KLP219], Mahjongg will rule 2010. This album is the shit. Besides being pioneering members of the most fucked up awesome weird dance music scene Chicago has seen in decades, these are some nice dudes. They’ve invented a new style of music they call Chicagotronics: a wall of sound command center with drums and humans. They sing together and dance all crazy and there’s this laser going. It’s great.

These days they may be fodder for tabloid writers and late-night comics, but way back in the day Mahjongg ruled the charts. This new release offers evidence of why, for better or worse, Mahjongg’s popular Chicagotronic styling’s set the standard for underground music. The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger is the pinnacle so far of Mahjongg’s four albums, and you get all the facets of their platinum-plus sound.