Thursday, March 15   11:00 p.m.
Karma Lounge   (119 W 8th St)

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Transparent Things is the title of a book by Vladimir Nabokov, and also the title of the latest album from Fujiya & Miyagi. Following the sell-out success of their first three Tirk 10� vinyl-only singles, In One Ear & Out The Other/Conductor 71, Collarbone / Cassettesingle, Ankle Injuries/ Photocopier, this latest release compiles new versions of those six tracks, available for the first time on CD, with three previously unreleased scorchers: Sucker Punch, Transparent Things, and Cylinders.

Fujiya & Miyagi are David Best (Miyagi, vocals, guitar, occasional but strictly non-progrock Moog), Steve Lewis (Fujiya, keyboards, beats, programming), and Matt Hainsby (Ampersand, bass guitar).

The story of how they met and formed the band variously reports a mutual hero-worship of world heavyweight wrestler Kendo Nagasaki (from Wolverhampton, and like the boys from F&M, not a Japanese cell in his muscle-bound body), and a shared interest in krautrock and early-nineties electronica discovered while warming the subs bench during Sunday league football.

And the name�? David explains, �Miyagi was taken from the film �The Karate Kid� and Fujiya was the name of a record player. It just looked really nice written down. And it was the only name we came up with.�

UK label: Tirk Records
US label: Deaf Dumb & Blind communications