Looks like some freaky house going on here.
Looks like some freaky house going on here.

Because it is nearly impossible to find a free seat in Momiji during happy hour, I have started visiting Gokan by Musashi on those days I can't find any way around the desire to eat something that's Japanese, prepared well, and not pricey. This happens at least once a week. Gokan always has free seats at the bar (the alter of my kind of godless soul) and the bartender has a taste for contemporary house, deep house, and London 2-step.

Yesterday, while eating a few things ordered from the small plates section of the happy hour menu, my attention was more and more drawn to what turned out to be a very lovely house tune. It had a singer whose mood was made cinematic by stabs on the deep end of a piano. Then it happened. After a very dramatic and dubby beatless moment, it transitioned from song proper (man singing to a lover) to its version, its ghost of drum and bass, kick and minimal sequencer. I live for transitions like this. The tune is called "All I Want" and it is by a duo (Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance) called Bob Moses.

The cinematic mood I heard on the tune? Pure Pacific Northwest (or what Matt Offenbacher calls green gothic). Though based in New York City, Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance are originally from Vancouver, B.C., the most beautiful city in our region.