The Onion Cellar & Out The Run present Rock Night with COCC, Spring.Fall.Sea and Rắn Cạp ĐuôiCOCC (psychedelic noise rock)
Once there was a band – Hero in Danger, emerging from the sweaty grungy depths of Saigon’s rock scene of the 1990s, remnants of such times still discernible in the heroes’ current incarnation’s lethal mixture of gritty lyricism and angular sonics and forceful no-holding-back delivery, mixed with a sense of playful experimentation that truly sets them apart from their contemporaries.
COCC’s debut album – 6 Giờ – was put out into the world in 2011 to much national-underground acclaim. A jarring trip through sun-kissed dusty city streets and down dark unending alleys, narrated by Southern-accented vocals singing of the low-lives oft-overlooked in the modern Vietnamese society (beggars, cyclo-drivers, abandoned kids, to name a few), the record was born out of and acts as an ode to a disappearing Saigon last depicted in Trần Anh Hùng’s classic Cyclo: bursting with feverish energy, and ultimately humane.
In between new families and new-born babies, the trio have been preparing for a sophomore collection of conceptual noise-rock, self-recorded self-produced and slated for a 2017 release date.
SPRING.FALL.SEA (post-rock)
Sometimes you have to leave everything behind and disappear. Who knows where you might find yourself again. Something like that must have happened in order for SPRING.FALL.SEA to exist. The musicians met in Bangkok, Thailand after leaving their home countries and continents. After playing a couple of shows in 2014, a first demo single was recorded at SAE Bangkok in December 2014. That’s when Dylan and Marvin decided to work together as SPRING.FALL.SEA. Over the next few months the duo started writing material for their first EP. During the recording process they met Clive, who joined the band and filled the empty spot on the bass. The first official show was played on September 26th 2015 at The Overstay Bangkok.
RẮN CẠP ĐUÔI (psychedelick rock)
Rắn Cạp Đuôi is a Saigon-based collective of autodidacts for whom the relative absence of virtuosity might or might not have been made up for with an abundance of goforit open-mindedness. Schizophrenically hopscotching between but never comfortably resting in (garage rock, sludge metal, post-hardcore, hauntology pop, drone, dub, and other manifestations of left-field sonicity), the group channels the un-neat ruleless strangely ferocious world of quantum mechanics.
Rock Night will be performed on 25 Feb 2017, 6.30 pm at Led Zeppelin Café, 363 Nguyen Thuong Hien, District 10.
