PROMO: Creatures album, Hái!

New Creatures album Hái! to be released on Instinct Records on October
21.

Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie join forced with former Kodo Drummer Leonard
Eto.

Siouxsie and Budgie return as The Creatures with their emphatically
titled new album Hái! Translated, the title of this self-produced,
Anglo-Japanese fusion means 'Yes!' and will be released by Instinct
Records October 21, 2003.

As mysterious as the serene yet sensual beauty of the cover image by
Japanese artist Kimiko Yoshida, 'Hái!' is an alchemy of distilled
atmospherics and sublime minimalism. Yet as Siouxsie's vocals soar
over Budgie's daredevil drums & marimbas, syncromeshed to the pulsing
Taiko rhythms of ex-Kodo drummer Leonard Eto, 'Hái!' soon splits
several sonic skins to emit a roar that would rival that of Japan's
most famous movie monster, 'Godzilla!', whose paean from Siouxsie will
be released as a single on October 6, 2003.

"The Creatures are primal: it's our guts, our deepest instincts coming
through."-Budgie

'Hái!' began on the stormy Tokyo morning when fate brought Budgie and
Taiko drum master Leonard Eto together for the first time. The ensuing
spontaneous drumming frenzy was like lightning striking at the source
of a rhythmical rainbow. The sizzling spectrum of beats unleashed in
that one relentless recording session would become the backbone of the
album.

"I was enthralled as I watched the coming together of these two
kindred spirits. Words and melodies came to me immediately but mindful
of breaking the spell, I had to store my inspiration until we got back
home to France."-Siouxsie.

Continuing a pioneering journey that began with The Creatures'
recording their first album 'Feast' in Hawaii (1983), 'Boomerang' in
Spain (1989) and 'Anima Animus' France, USA & UK (1999), 'Hái!'
threads together a characteristically diverse mix of inspirational
sources. Touched by the delicate snowfall imagery of Akira Kurosawa's
'Ikiru' (1952), absorbing the vibrancy of Tokyo's Roppongi district,
and spiritualised by the ancient Shinto shrines and tranquil shores of
Lake Ashi.

>>From the opening Semi Cicada drone of 'Say Yes!', we are exposed to an
audioramic assault in 'Around the World' and 'Seven Tears'. Charmed by
the B-movie humour of 'Godzilla!' and seduced by the Shamanic chant of
'Imagoro'. We traverse the sexual tightrope of 'Tourniquet',
experience the strikingly beautiful fatalism of 'Further Nearer',
languish in the poignant isolation of 'City Island', before finally
being transported on the Hokusai Wave of assertive optimism that is
'Tantara!'

If Budgie's drums are the beating heart of The Creatures, then
Siouxsie's voice is the lifeblood, capable of the same ground-shaking
dynamism it is also, as is evident on 'Hái!', an increasingly subtle
and uniquely entrancing instrument.

"The spirit of Japan has touched our souls and a new chapter in the
story of 'The Creatures' has begun."-Budgie.