Over the Summer, I would receive packages in the mail just about every week from Jinsen Liu of 28 Degrees Taurus. He would send me a few CDs of really awesome bands like Gospel Gossip. I would take these EPs and albums and import them into iTunes immediately. Sometimes it was on the fly, so I didn’t have a chance to listen to them. That was the case with Roh Delikat.
I was fixing lunch one afternoon when Kristina (Johnson) Parish’s voice stopped me dead in my tracks. "Who is this?," I thought. I marched over to my laptop, a piece of bread and a butter knife in hand, and instantly I was bummed. I wouldn’t get to see this band play this dreamy tune ever because I knew they had stopped playing live a few years earlier. Well, thankfully, that wasn’t true.
It turns out that Jinsen doesn’t just play guitar in 28dt and send packages in the mail, he also acts as a catalyst for getting really good bands back together. A few months later, thanks to Jinsen, Roh Delikat reunited with a new bass player, Ryan Brown (Ho-Ag), to play the Deep Heaven Now festival. After that, they decided to start writing new songs. "Tanya Zandra’s Tissue Box" is the tune I heard that day last summer.
Some of their influences include Sonic Youth, Autolux, Die Antwoord, and a sprinkling of dubstep.
Roh Delikat — Tanya Zandra’s Tissue Box
— Danielle Freudenthal