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At the end of 2023, Elephant Gym embarked on a year-long world tour, performing 60 shows across 23 countries. The tour featured sold-out performances in cities such as New York, Tokyo, Paris, and Santiago, Chile. The enthusiastic response from fans around the globe and the diverse audience reactions to the performances left a lasting impression on the band.
Elephant Gym has curated a selection of live recordings culled from select performances across four continents during this tour. Through these recordings, the band hopes to share with listeners the unique atmosphere of each respective city's live performance. These continent-specific live recordings will be released as a series of EPs throughout 2025, culminating in a complete live album.
The second installment, Live in Tokyo, Japan, documents a landmark performance at Spotify O-EAST in Shibuya, a venue revered by many Japanese musicians. The event marked Elephant Gym's first solo concert at this iconic venue and drew a sold-out crowd of over a thousand, which was a deeply meaningful milestone for this trio of musicians who have long been influenced by Japanese music culture.
This EP features four tracks, including a live rendition of "Feather" in collaboration with Japanese multi-instrumentalist/singer TENDRE. It also includes a powerful arrangement of the classic "Galaxy", performed with brass quartet ZOO-MIN-SHA, led by renowned saxophonist Konishi Ryo, whose work spans both the pop and indie music scenes in Japan. The recording captures the emotional intensity of Elephant Gym's triumphant moment on one of Japan's most celebrated stages.
Formed in 2012, Elephant Gym is a three-piece band from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, known for melodic and emotional bass-driven tracks filled with gentle, beautiful and rhythmic guitar and drum ensemble. In early times their music has been based on instrumental, sometimes associated with Math Rock, but the band often features vocals recently expressing their sophisticated song-writing skills and performing techniques with the growing influences of Jazz, Soul, Hip Hop, Alternative and Indie Rock, Film Music etc. As the band matures, their music surpasses the musical genre or category. Elephant Gym is also fond of other art forms ane collaborated with Japanese R&B band, WONK, Taiwan aboriginal singers, film directors, modern dance group, and theater actors trying to create an art world of Elephant Gym. While they are one of the important and representing band in Taiwan, they have also attracted attention around the world having been invited to Summer Sonic (Japan), Super Strawberry Festival (China), Music Matters (Singapore), Mega Port Festival (Taiwan) and many other significant Festivals in Asia. In 2018, Elephant Gym worked with Topshelf Records in the US, WORDS Recordings in Japan and Space Circle in China to release their second album "Underwater" worldwide and started their first world tour (Canada, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Japan, China, Malaysia, Singapore, USA, Taiwan, UK, Europe). Shows in Toronto, Tokyo, Malaysia, Singapore, and all 6 cities in the US were sold out, and they performed over 100 shows all around the world by the end of 2019. In November 2019, Tyler, The Creator invited them to perform his hosting festival "Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival" at LA Dodger Stadium. In May 2022, they will release their 3rd full album "Dreams", and one of the biggest festival in Asia, Fuji Rock Festival, announced them in their 1st lineup for 2022 acts.
WORDS Recordings