Now that Man Man‘s tour schedule has slowed down for a bit, it seems that the band’s drummer/producer Christopher Sean Powell, a.k.a. Pow Pow, Powserati, PayPow, will have more time to explore new musical terrain with his electro-tropicalia side project Spaceship Aloha. The one-man band finds its origin on the island of Maui, where Powell and his wife "were married by a mystic in the rainforest on the Road to Hana." He became engrossed by the Hawaiian music that dominated the FM airwaves in his 1987 Toyota Camry rental. Upon his return to Philly, the Polynesian influence began to seep into the beats that he created with his trusty Akai MPC 1000, which led to the creation of Spaceship Aloha’s debut album Universe Mahalo: Volume #1 (Data Garden). The mothership will be touching down on the stage of Johnny Brenda’s this evening when Powell opens for Brooklyn’s Sinkane and Ecuadorean sound sculptor Helado Negro. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 9pm, $12, 21+ – H.M. Kauffman
