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Akisakila took the middle slot in Friday's festivities with some loud computer-assisted drone, looped vocals and electronically bowed guitar. The group is a duo: Joshua James Bastien and Shub Roy.

As above ... Joshua.



So below: Shub.



Under observation from one of Sunburned Hand of The Man's guitarists.



Hard at work!



They made a very effective opener to Sunburned Hand of The Man, despite their markedly different tools of the trade. I'm looking forward to seeing them again.

• Show reminder: Julie Doiron, Snailhouse and Sarah Hallman play Club SAW tonight. Those with stranger tastes can check out Daiquiri, The TunaHelpers (they're from Austin, so they must be weird!) at Zaphod's. I think I'll go see The Golden Dogs, Clothes Make the Man and Iconoclast at Mavericks; I dig what I heard of the Dogs' rootsy pop on their website.