“Welcome to Japanese New Music Festival”
I am officially a groupie, and I’m so excited I can’t even type properly. One of my favourite bands of all time (any band that makes me want to mainline acid and lie on the floor while the amp stacks shake my viscera makes it to my ‘favourite bands of all time’ list), Acid Mothers Temple, that I last saw in Zürich with Cornelia and Emile are coming to Guangzhou. I know this solely because I have been wasting an afternoon doing that very 1997 Netscape4 thing of aimlessly web surfing, and now feel eminently validated for all those years of meaningless bandwidth consumption.
Acid Mothers Temple!!! Japanese New Music Festival!!! Emile arriving on Monday. Paul too! (doesn’t have a website though, possibly not worth mentioning him then as no reverse-link whoring to be gained). Japanese New Music Festival, Friday 7th April, at Windflower or Tang Club (depending on which website you read).
In 1997,1999 and 2003, a set of performances aroused a storm of frenzy and shriek in Europe… and they will go to China with even greater power.
This time 3 musicians (YoshidaTatsuya / Tsuyama Atsushi / Kawabata Makoto) form 7 units!! A cappella, comic free form, progressive core, troubadour, cosmic psychedelic……
you’ll be experiencing the essence of all kinds of extremes in the current new music scene in Japan on a single night.
Japanese New Music Festival Chinese Tour 2006
31th Mar. Shanghai
01st Apr. Peking
04th Apr. Peking
06th Apr. Chengdu
07th Apr. Macau
08th Apr. Shenzhen
09th Apr. Kuangchou
In 1997,1999 and 2003, a set of performances aroused a storm of frenzy and shriek in Europe… and they will go to China with even greater power.
This time 3 musicians (YoshidaTatsuya / Tsuyama Atsushi / Kawabata Makoto) form 7 units!! A cappella, comic free form, progressive core, troubadour, cosmic psychedelic……
you’ll be experiencing the essence of all kinds of extremes in the current new music scene in Japan on a single night.
Never miss it.
ZUBI ZUVA X (Yoshida / Tsuyama / Kawabata)
Eccentric poly-rhythmic a cappella ensemble. It covers from Gregorian chant to ethnic music, to do-wop to hardcore screaming, heavily using irregular rhythms and polyrhythm. All sorts of ideas and aberrant musicality overturn the image of a cappella. their totally meaningless lyrics and desperate performances throw the audiences into the abyss of the laughter and admiration. it makes the concept of “singing ability”nonsense.
AKATEN (Tsuyama / Yoshida)
Formed in 1995 with the motto of “irresponsibleness” and “perfunctoriness.” They easily free themselves from the spell of the traditional seriousness of the art. Using daily commodities like scissors, toothbrush, zipper, camera, and plastic bottle as percussions, and shouting their brand names over and over as the “songs,” the show is performed under the concept of low cost and maximum sound effect. AKATEN is the experimental convenience store punk band that provides the sound images of cheap and simple daily lives.
RUINS ALONE (Yoshida)
RUINS is pioneer of Drum & Bass duo. Tunes are complicated and mysterious, and songs are sung in the language of their own invention. It’s high-tension, wild, heavy, speedy, acute, and powerful tremendous ensemble never sounds like they are only two players. since last bassist left Yoshida still seeking a bassist and currently he has been playing as RUINS ALONE. playing RUINS songs with sampling bass. this time Yoshida will play songs from Koenji Hyakkei and Korekyojinn too.
ZOFFY (Tsuyama / Kawabata)
Formed in 1998. Zoffy’s music hints both at the members’ deep musical knowledge via their improvised performances of troubadour music and European trad, and also at their deep love for rock via their destructivist covers of classic rock songs, that no longer sounds like anything but ZOFFY. The group believes that humor is essential in music, and their unprecedented performances stray far from the beaten track. Is this the Ultima Thule that rock music has long been aiming for?
SHRINP WARK (Kawabata / Yoshida)
A new improvising duo consisting of Yoshida from Ruins and Kawabata from AMT. group inspired by This Heat and band name taken from their song “Shrink Wrap”. Cosmic chemical reaction sound that embraces a multidimensional chaos based upon the principles of minimalism, an anarchistic warping of the time axis, and ultra-accelerated revolving of time particles.
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE SWR (Kawabata / Tsuyama / Yoshida)
Acid Mothers Temple have rapidly become acclaimed as the greatest, most extreme trip psychedelic group in the world. Releases have appeared on labels around the world at an amazing pace, and the magnificence of their live performances is already being whispered of as legendary. SWR is the AMT Family’s most powerful battle-formation yet. featuring Tsuyama and Kawabata from the original AMT and Yoshida from Ruins. their crushingly acute freakout sound will pulverize the world’s legions of wannabe psych groups.
SEIKAZOKU (Kawabata / Tsuyama / Yoshida)
Formed in 1996. The expansive musicality of the group, which nonchalantly references classic prog and rock, ethnic music, jazz and contemporary composition, is backed up the three members’ impressive backgrounds and the depth of their musical knowledge. Improvised music for holy trinity heresy that runs the full gamut of ethnic and electric instruments, primitive stupidity, the suspicious stench of medieval alchemy, the raw power of early rock music, all leavened with a pinch of cosmic incoherency.
