{"id":29780,"date":"2018-08-24T03:42:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T10:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=29780"},"modified":"2018-08-22T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T21:09:27","slug":"kakagi-comes-to-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2018\/08\/24\/kakagi-comes-to-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakagi comes to B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kakagi is, left to right, Jacob Brodovsky, Jesse Popeski, Jonathan Corobow and Max Brodovsky. (photo by Jen Doerksen)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The band Kakagi (pronounced ke-KA-gi) is coming to Vancouver next month as part of a tour that includes several B.C. stops.<\/p>\n

Officially formed in September 2015, Kakagi is Jacob Brodovsky (guitar and vocals), his brother, Max Brodovsky (drums), Jonathan Corobow (bass) and Jesse Popeski (guitar). The four Winnipeg-area musicians met and first started jamming together when they were campers at B\u2019nai Brith Camp in Kenora, Ont. Lake Kakagi is 100-plus kilometres south of Kenora.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen me, Max and Jonathan were all staff (at BB), we all started playing together,\u201d said Jacob Brodovsky. \u201cWe\u2019ve been playing now for two-and-a-half years. Jesse and I played in the band in high school, from around ages 12 to 18. And then, Max and John always jammed together in high school, so it worked out nicely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The four each went their own way in university, but, once they finished school, they came back together to form the band.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all either done with school or are taking a break, to be able to focus on this full-time \u2026 so the timing was good to do some heavier touring,\u201d said Brodovsky.<\/p>\n

Kakagi\u2019s music is reminiscent of Neil Young, on the folk rock or indie rock spectrum.<\/p>\n

Being a young band, Kakagi has so far been playing mainly locally, but they headed east on tour in July \u2013 Toronto, Ottawa, Peterborough and Sault Ste. Marie \u2013 and will head out west in September. The tour is called Staying Up Late, and is in support of their first EP, which they recorded in Winnipeg over the winter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re getting a better hang of being an actual touring band, figuring out how to make that sustainable, how much forward planning is needed to make that possible,\u201d Brodovsky said.<\/p>\n

After the western leg of the tour, he said, \u201cwe\u2019ll probably head back to Winnipeg to do some song writing. We\u2019ll be putting out another EP in January 2019, called High Hopes<\/em>. That\u2019s pretty much in the can. We just have to do a little fixing on it. Then, we\u2019ll head to Montreal in the spring to record our first full-length album.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kakagi has wanted to play in Vancouver for some time now and are happy to have created enough of a buzz with their music to warrant the trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know a bunch of people in Vancouver, and it\u2019s also one of the bigger markets in the country, so it\u2019s a good city to get our footing,\u201d said Brodovsky. \u201cThere is a lot of (music) industry in Vancouver. Also, we just love B.C., so we\u2019re making the tour as long as possible to be in Vancouver and to the island.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kakagi will be at the Roxy in Vancouver on Sept. 5 and at Wheelies in Victoria on Sept. 8. They are also playing in Kelowna, Nelson and other B.C. communities. For more information, visit kakagimusic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rebeca Kuropatwa<\/strong> is a Winnipeg freelance writer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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