Tanukichan at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (26 Apr 2023)

Tanukichan Setlist

Escape Don’t Give Up Take Care Bitter Medicine Lazy Love Like the Sun A Bad Dream Enough Tomorrow The Blue Sky Thin Air Like You Thank You (Dido cover) Hunned Bandz Been Here Before This Time

 

 

San Francisco’s Tanukichan (Hannah van Loon) just headlined the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis on Wednesday night. She’s touring in support of her sophomore album GIZMO (Company Records).


Opening the show was Winter (Samira Winter), playing some tracks from her latest album What Kind of Blue Are You? (Bar/None Records).


There was a row of Winter fans in the middle of the dance floor, often screaming “I love you!”. Winter would acknowledge them, saying this was the “best crowd ever” and that she sometime needed words of encouragement.


They must have had sound problems, because for the first song, Winter’s mic was really undermixed and you could barely hear her vocals. It got better by the time “Lose You” was played.


With better vocals, I can hear the last three songs, “Mr. on-my-Mind”, “Good”, and “Kind of Blue”, the title track to her new album.


Tanukichan came on stage shortly after and played selections from her two albums, Sundays and GIZMO. She seems to favor the new songs, possibly because she got to work with Toro Y Moi’s Chaz Bear… which is very ethereal, noisy, and shoegazing. This is so weird, considering that Van Loon started as a fiddle player in a bluegrass band, before joining pop band Trails and Ways.


Speaking of which, yes, of course, we’ve seen Trails and Ways before, in Jun 2015, writing: “Highlight of their show for me was their song finale, “Mtn Tune”, featuring a great guitar solo by Hannah Van Loon.”


Of the new songs, “Take Care” was played early in the set. The song was written when Van Loon was depressed… probably due to the COVID pandemic. She mentioned in an interview, “It was painful to feel isolated and I craved companionship or friendship even more, but I knew that someday I would come out of it, and hopefully we would be friends again.”


Despite feeling depressed, much of Gizmo’s songs are positive/happy lyrics.


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