LUCKY DRAGONS means any recorded or performed or installed or packaged or shared pieces made by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara and any sometimes collaborators. Lucky Dragons inhabit Los Angeles. They create an ecstatic form of electronic music that celebrates the spirit of life as well as the magic of genre boundaries. Their music is surprising, inventive and uplifting much like their impressive live performances, which usually involve brain-wrangling visual projections and various forms of inspired audience interaction.

Lucky Dragons came together in the spring of 2000 in an attempt to create a band that would never break up. The name is borrowed from a Japanese fishing vessel caught in the fallout of a US hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean that became a focal point for worldwide anti-nuclear sentiment in the 20th century.

'DREAM ISLAND LAUGHING LANGUAGE'

Givers | Tune for Wind Dog

UTR021 | Digipack CD / LP | 17 tracks, 47 mins | 21 Jul 2008 | Buy

'Dream Island Laughing Language' is the 18th release by Lucky Dragons. The album details the continuing pursuit of a humble and joyous, drippy and explosive, smoldering and upset music for our experience in America right now - messages of unrest have long failed to be clearly understood, while solitude and empty organization have given way to a very current volcanic desire for togetherness.

Genre has never been less important - influences and ideas are consumed and digested and released in the spirit of a culture larger than music as it is bought and sold. This is world music for a world that doesn't care about "music" as we have packaged it for the last 100 years. You could call it post-noise, or post-anything you like, but we would prefer to call it pre-something.

With a constantly shifting group of participants, each recording is a record of a specific time and place, and of those present and active as a community in the creation of the recording. For this recording, the time is 2007-2008, the place is California. The name of the record refers to the landfill-island in Tokyo harbour where the original lucky dragon now lives - "dream island" - and to the creation of imaginary languages - "laughing language" - that can be used to express things our own languages can't. As with Lucky Dragons' remarkable live performances, these recordings strive to create a space where community, memory and ritual all come together as a crystal and then vibrate and shatter.