favorite food: Mushrooms!? Lol!
fun fact/secret: 3 very skilled musician daddies and 1 retired stripper who wants to sing
bio:New York City might be a gilded husk of its former self, but Wah Together have blown out a hole in the sweat-stained wall, churned up the asphalt and uncovered untrammeled layers of the city’s garage/psych-underground. No mere ruddy-cheeked baby-band, Wah Together instead assembles a loose group of friends and musicians, each seminal to the city’s musical legacy.

Masterminded by multi-instrumentalist and film composer Phil Mossman (ex.LCD Soundsytem), the band met-cute earlier this year at a “chance” jam session Mossman slyly arranged in his dark DUMBO basement studio roping in long-time friend and drummer Vito Roccoforte (The Rapture, Vito & Druzzi, Body Music) to play with guitarist and producer Steve Schiltz (Longwave, Hurricane Bells). The sound the three produced that day was an emphatic mix of contorted rave-ups, feedback drenched space oddities and pulsating Krautrock but it might have only remained a sprawling and allusive project the three conjured periodically if not for Jaiko Suzuki.

An avant-garde/experimental drummer, full-time restaurant worker, former go-go dancer and occasional Coney Island “mermaid”, Suzuki has leant vocals to a variety of projects but never really sung in a band until being recruited by her old pal Roccoforte. Suzuki’s voice, at once both effervescent and direct, digs into her bandmates’ tightly linked motoric and shoegazed jams coaxing out hooks and adding ballast to the shattering volume they produce.

At a time when the economics of music-making increasingly pushes young artists to work alone and “in the box”, Wah Together is an impassioned defense for a shared act of creation. Tracked passionately and principally live, their debut LP, Let’s Wah Together (release March 14, 2022 on Dedstrange) captures the immediacy and spontaneity of a group of musicians listening to, and playing off, one another with genuine affection, curiosity and joy. From the skronk n’ stomp of “I’m A Swimmer” to the Japanese Yé Yé beat inflected “Sayonara,” the dense ear-busting wistfulness of “Teen Vito” and the storming acidic drive of “Out! Out! Out!,” Let’s Wah Together is a loud and commanding recommitment to the cooperative spirit and familial love that always marks New York’s most vital eras.