On Saturday 18th, a completely reproduced live performance of the 2nd album "Death of a Dead Day" with Cyclamen as the opening act, the 19th (Sunday) welcomed Her Name in Blood as the main support and the 1st album "The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild ". There is no doubt that it will be valuable two days you can not watch it twice!
As a substitute for the Protest The Hero tour canceled in 2018, they hurriedly decided to come back to the 1st & 2nd album reproduction tour! Even in band history the reproduction of both albums will be the first event.
Two years have passed since the first performance of the impact from Japan. The super-heavyweight Soul Band from The Houston, Texas, The Suffers comes back to Blue Note Tokyo with the latest work "Everything Here" released in June. Formed in 2011, based on Southern Soul, represented by Stax label, it is interpreted incorporating elements such as rock, jazz, blues, latin, hip hop. With intense grooves, funky arrangements, dynamic horn sections, and soulful singing voices of red Kiss Cam Franklin, Texas's awards have been wrestled, leading to major media all over the world. More scaled by The Suffers, its latest performance is a must-see!
She has appeared with many notable orchestras, recorded a wide repertory with several labels, won numerous awards and honours (including Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2009), and has since 2013 been Artistic Director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival, the only musician to be its sole Artistic Director since co-founder Rudolf Serkin. She has also conducted several major orchestras.
Legendary pianist Mitsuko Uchida brings a deep insight into the music she plays through her own quest for truth and beauty. Renowned for her interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven, she has also illuminated the music of Berg, Schoenberg, Webern and Boulez for a new generation of listeners.
In 2017/18, Mitsuko Uchida embarked on a two-year Schubert Sonata series, featuring 12 of Schubert’s major works which she has been touring throughout Europe and North America. Main venues have included the Royal Festival Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Vienna Musikverein. In the same season, she will also appear with the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle, the Chicago Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel in addition to directing the Cleveland Orchestra in Mozart concerti.
Artist in Residence at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie in 2016/17, Mitsuko Uchida played the opening piano recital in January 2017. That season also marked the start of a three-year collaboration with the Southbank Centre in London. Since 2016, Mitsuko Uchida is an Artistic Partner of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, directing Mozart concerti from the keyboard in tours of major European venues and Japan. With a strong commitment to chamber music, Mitsuko Uchida collaborates closely with the world’s finest musicians. She recently partnered with Jörg Widmann for a series of concerts at the Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie and Carnegie Hall and has collaborated with Magdalena Kožená, Dorothea Röschmann and the Ebène Quartet.
Mitsuko Uchida’s loyal relationship with the finest orchestras and concert halls has resulted in numerous residencies. She has been Artist-in-Residence at the Cleveland Orchestra and at the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Mozartwoche and Lucerne Festival. Carnegie Hall dedicated to her a Perspectives series entitled ‘Mitsuko Uchida: Vienna Revisited’ and the Concertgebouw a Carte Blanche series.
Mitsuko Uchida records exclusively for Decca. Her extensive discography includes the complete Mozart and Schubert piano sonatas, as well as the complete Mozart piano concerti with Jeffrey Tate and The English Chamber Orchestra. From 2011-2016, Uchida recorded a five CD series of Mozart piano concerti with the Cleveland Orchestra live in concert and directing from the piano. The first release won a Grammy Award in 2011. In 2017, she won a second Grammy with Soprano Dorothea Röschmann for their ‘Schumann and Berg’ album. Her recording of the Schoenberg Piano Concerto with Pierre Boulez and the Cleveland Orchestra won four awards, including The Gramophone Award for Best Concerto.
Committed to aiding the development of young musicians, Mitsuko Uchida is a trustee of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and Director of the Marlboro Music Festival. In June 2009 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In May 2012 she was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Gold Medal and in 2014 received an Honorary Degree from the University of Cambridge. A guest of honour at the Salzburg Mozartwoche in 2015, Mitsuko Uchida was awarded the Golden Mozart Medal. In October 2015, she received the Premium Imperiale Award from the Japan Art Association.
The temple’s principal object of worship is a statue of a seated Shaka Nyorai (Sakyamuni Buddha). This is a superlative example of statues by Gyokai, who was the most talented student of the renowned sculptor Kaikei. In attendance upon the Seated Shaka Nyorai (Sakyamuni Buddha) are the statues of 10 Buddhist monks selected from the many disciples of Sakyamuni Buddha. These Ten major disciples of Buddha are known to be statues created by Kaikei in his final years. The temple also preserves a rare example of a complete set of Buddhist statues Roku Kannon Bosatsu (Six manifestations of Avalokitesvara) by Higo Jokei, who was a student of Unkei in his later years.
This exhibition introduces numerous masterpieces of the Keiha school preserved at Daiho’onji temple. With works by Kaikei, who was a contemporary of Unkei, and master sculptors of the post-Unkei generation, the exhibition allows visitors to enjoy a contest between Kamakura-period sculptures.
Venue: shimokitazawa ERA
Open: 2019/06/08 (Sat) 10:00
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20. 19/10/06 (Sun) Tokyo Jupiter Records presents "JAPAMOSPHERE 2019"
OPEN / START 15:00 / 15:30
ADV / DOOR ¥ 6000 / ¥ 6500 (+1 D ¥ 600)
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All seats: ¥ 6,000
Nadja is a duo of multi-instrumentalist Aidan Baker and bassist Leah Buckareff which formed in 2003. Nadja creates music that has been described as ambient doom, dreamsludge, and metalgaze, combining the atmospheric textures of shoegaze and ambient music with the heaviness and volume of metal and noise. Nadja have released numerous recordings on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Hydrahead Records, Important Records, Essence Music, and their own label, Broken Spine Productions. The duo has toured and performed extensively around the world, appearing at such diverse festivals as SXSW, FIMAV, Roadburn, and Unsound.
In 2005 Buckareff joined in order to make the project more than just a studio endeavour & allow Nadja to perform live. Nadja creates music that has been variously described as drone metal, ambient doom, and shoegazer, combining soundscapes, electronics, & atmospheric vocals & tempering the cacophony with an ethereal melodicism such that the listener is enveloped in a sublimating wall of amorphous sound.
Originally from Toronto, Canada, the duo now resides in Berlin, Germany.
Amenra is a Belgian band from Kortrijk. It was formed in 1999 by vocalist Colin H. van Eeckhout and guitarist Mathieu Vandekerckhove, who now perform alongside drummer Bjorn Lebon, guitarist Lennart Bossu and bassist Levy Seynaeve. Among a number of other works, they have released six studio albums in the Mass series, the latest of them through Neurot Recordings. The band's unique musical style, characterised by brooding atmospheres and spiritual intensity, is rooted in doom metal, hardcore punk and post-rock. Their live performances, accompanied by visual art, have been described as "entrancing communions".
In 2005, Amenra formed Church of Ra, a collective of collaborating artists which now includes Oathbreaker and the Black Heart Rebellion.
The group released their debut studio album Mass I in 2003. Van Eeckhout suggested in 2017 that each Mass is created out of necessity to reflect on a certain experience or phase in the band members' lives and thus they never know which album will be their last. He also described 2005's Mass III as a "keystone moment of [Amenra's] existence" at which they "found direction". The band's next "turning point" came when they joined Neurot Records to release Mass V. The label was founded by Neurosis; a band that has been influential in Amenra's style and career.
It is the perfect opportunity to encounter a diverse range of prestigious artworks, including antique art, modern art, contemporary art, tea paraphernalia, and craftworks, which were all collected by our art specialists over a long time. In addition, you can touch the pieces and make a purchase.
Current members:
Forrest Kline: vocals, guitar, ukulele, primary songwriter (2001–present)
Augustine Rampolla: keyboard, guitar, bass, ukulele, percussion (2011–present)
Andrew Richards: guitar, ukulele, mandolin (2008–present)
Michael Garzon: drums, guitar, vocals, mandolin, ukulele, keyboard (2011–present)
Young Dreams is a band from UK formed with young musicians (including members such as CASIOKIDS at that time) who stopped solo activity in 2010 and was in the area. The debut single, which was a joint release of Norwegian legendary label TELLE and FLAKE became a hot topic.
The debut album "BETWEEN PLACES" released in 2013 won overwhelming evaluation, succeeded in winning the BEST INDIE ALBUM award at Spellemannprisen which is the grammy prize of the home country Norway. Thêy stopped the live activity after entering the Japan tour which became a miracle coupling tour with SONDRE LERCHE, and entered into the album production period.
Comeback with single "OF THE CITY" in 2016 with live performances at the end of September of 2017. And finally finished 2nd album released by members BLANCA RECORDS.
A pop album boasting the overwhelming degree of completeness in which all the experience was cultivated with MATIAS TELLEZ 's genius music sense, a number of artists' productions, etc. was completed. Arrangement and sound layers, ensemble that was built precisely whether the imminent obscurity or not. All the sounds that are ringing, harmonies and melodies blend together and the popular world of Konemaki is expanded.
The band continued to gather attention and has released three 7-inch EPs as of March 2016. In January 2015, Rolling Stone featured the band as one of "10 New Artists You Need To Know", describing them as "a gang of punks with a not-so-secret love of Seventies classic rock." Four of five band members attended the State University of New York at Purchase. In 2016, the band was part of the Coachella 2016 line-up and performed on Late Night with Seth Myers. On May 10, 2017, Sheer Mag released "Need To Feel Your Love," the first track off their first full-length record, Need To Feel Your Love.
Current members:
Tina Halladay - vocals
Matt Palmer - rhythm guitar, keyboards
Kyle Seely - lead guitar
Hart Seely - bass
The Fadeaways is a garage punk band in Tokyo, Japan. Their music is inspired from 60s Garage, 70s Punk, 80s Neo garage, and 90s Garage Punk.
The Fadeaways is one of the recent bands to keep the back from the Grave scene alive in Tokyo, THE FADEAWAYS play stompin' three chord, Japanese garage punk. The band took their teenage craze all over Japan touring with classic 60's style bands like THE WOGGLES!
When audience saw The Fadeaways the first time they were blown away by their incredible high energy music and striking stage personality. Three guys in identical striped T-shirts entered the small stage at the UFO Club in Higashi-Koenji and literally exploded! Few bands can match the pure energy and attack of The Fadeaways on a good day. Musically, they come off like something of a 60s version of The Ramones crossed with every garage band off the classic Back From The Grave compilations.
The Fadeaways have been around for a while now – they celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2015. The members Toyozo, Sakurai and Ozzy have the kind of energy that can only come from honing your act at thousands of gigs across Japan. With Tokyo as their home base, The Fadeaways have not only played in towns like Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, Nahoya, Sendai in their homeland, they have also toured the US several timers and recently did their first Scandinavian tour.
Videos
The Fadeaways don't have any official music videos yet, but there is plenty of live footage that can give you a taste of what to expect.
Members:
TOYOZO - Vocals & Bass
SAKURAI - Guitar & Chorus
OZZY - Drums
Los Angeles-based trio the Fever 333 inject their raucous hybrid rap-rock sound with politically charged lyrics similar to forebears Rage Against the Machine, with additional touches of Public Enemy, Black Flag, and Linkin Park. Abrasive, aggressive, and energetic, the three-piece outfit features frontman Jason Aalon Butler (ex-LetLive), guitarist Stephen Harrison (the Chariot), and drummer Aric Improta (Night Verses). With full support by producers Travis Barker (blink-182) and John Feldmann (Goldfinger) — who signed the band to their More Hi-Hat label — the Fever 333 made their debut in 2017 with fiery live shows and grassroots organization to promote their message of "community, charity, and change." This socially conscious spirit was woven into early tracks like the visceral "Hunting Season," the genre-blurring trap-metal "Walking in My Shoes," and the fiery "We're Coming In." ~ Neil Z. Yeung, Rovi
Hardcore Superstar formed in autumn 1997 in Gothenburg and signed to Gain soon afterwards. Their debut album was recorded and released in Sweden. The album attracted the attention of English label Music for Nations and a new worldwide contract was drawn up. The new album, which became the band's "official debut album" contains a few new songs, a new cover and has a new name, "Bad Sneakers and a Pina Colada".
In autumn 2003 and winter 2004 the band toured in Sweden, Europe and the USA. A fight broke out at the Swedish Consulate in New York between Thomas Silver and Aftonbladet journalist Fredrik Virtanen. This is a major news story back in Sweden.
Now back on Gain, the band has regained its unique energy which resulted in the new self titled album "Hardcore Superstar".
The album has been given top reviews all over the world. Hardcore Superstar has been Grammy nominated and number one on the Swedish hard rock charts.
Hardcore Superstar is a hard rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed in 1997 and continue on today. Hardcore Superstar have had several hit singles, and Grammy wins in Sweden.They released their first album, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, on Gain Records in October 1998. Out of the 11 tracks on the album,7 songs were re-recorded for their first worldwide releas Bad Sneakers and a Piña Colada.In August, 2003, the band released their final album with Music For Nations, entitled "No Regrets". In 2005, Hardcore Superstar re-signed with Gain Records, the label with whom they released their debut with in 1998. The band returned rejuvenated, with a hard rock sound more comparable to their earlier works. They released a self-titled album Hardcore Superstar in 2005, which featured the Swedish hit singles; "We Don't Celebrate Sundays", "Wild Boys", "My Good Reputation" and "Bag On Your Head".
SEPTIC TANK are Lee Durian (LEE): VOCALS, Gary Jennings (GAZ): GUITAR, Scott Carlson (SCOTT): BASS, Jamie "Gomez" Allegano (GOMEZ): DRUMS.
Lee Durian enrolled as a vocalist on the emperor Napalm Death of the extreme music world, after that he formed Cathedral in '90 years after leaving Napalm Death. Cathedral is completely different from the musical nature of Napalm Death, which is said to be the fastest in the world, appeared as the leading doom metal that can be said as a contemporary interpretation of Black Sabbath and dissolved ten studio albums in 2013 did. After that, Lee operates a music label, Rise Abbu, and uniquely identifies and nurtures bands.
Septic tank is a project that Lee worked with the guitar gaza, base Scott and former trouble drummer Barry Stern, who was a member of the Cathedral in 1994. All of the members are large fans of hardcore such as discharging, they have composed hese hardcore numbers. Their EP "SLAUGHTER EP" was released in 2012. In 2017, they began producing full-length albums and released their debut album in April 2018.
Lee follows the hard core, slash, kind band, Septic tank, who keeps on active in parallel with with the dead which makes the super vicious sound hear.
Dorothy wishes "I want to return to Kansas." "If you are a great wizard of Oz in the capital of the emerald, you may make your wish fulfilled ...".
Believe that word told by the witch of the north, Dorothy goes on an adventure trip with a pet dog Toto.
You don't want to miss this performance!
the basic style that Mikami and Matsumura play the acoustic guitar. In addition to that, combining digital sound by driving is also a big feature. Because they create work by pursuing purely unusual pleasures,they are only a work group with an easy listening and exotic atmosphere.
With their exquisitely produced award-winning recordings, ranging dynamically from the most sensitive and touching old Irish songs all the way to hard hitting reels and jigs, and with their heart warming, dynamic live performances, Altan have moved audiences from Donegal to Tokyo to Seattle. Throughout, there has been the unwavering commitment of the band to bringing the beauty of traditional music, particularly that of the Donegal fiddlers and singers, to contemporary audiences in a way that brings out all its qualities and destroys none. In fact, Altan have always believed that Irish traditional music is a modern music in every sense and its growing influence and popularity have proved them right.
The seeds of the band lie in the music and fun of gatherings and sessions in kitchens and pubs in Donegal where virtuoso music was heard in an atmosphere of respect and intimacy - it is here that the band's heart lies still whether they are performing on tv in Australia or jamming with Ricky Skaggs on the west coast of the United States.
And if those were the seeds, the actual kernel of the band was the music and personality of band founders, Belfast flute-player, Frankie Kennedy, and Gweedore singer and fiddler, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. As soon as anyone met them and heard their unique music in the early eighties, whether in a large noisy festival session, or in the little traditional clubs of Dublin and Belfast, it was immediately apparent there was a rare power at work. They seemed to be playing their own repertoire, in fact a combination of old Donegal fiddle music (then little known outside Donegal) and of unusual Northern flute tunes, they delivered it with a force and fullness that made it hard to believe there were only two people playing, and that combined with Frankie's immense wit and playfulness and Mairéad's beauty and down-to-earth charm made an irresistible package. It quickly became clear to them and others that they could go places.
Gradually the duo grew organically into a band in the mid-eighties, forged in the bustle and crack of a thousand late-night sessions and festivals throughout Ireland - the repertoire gave Altan (the name was taken from a deep and mysterious lake behind Errigal Mountain in Donegal) a totally unique stamp, while there was an undoubted inspiration from the great Irish bands such as the Bothy Band, Planxty and De Danann.
Altan's commitment to good natured fun was second only to their commitment to excellence in all things musical, and so the band members who were gathered in were top-notch. Altan has always been a virtuoso band. Earliest was bouzouki-player, Ciarán Curran from Co. Fermanagh, a session and festival veteran, nephew of fiddler, Ned Curran, and close friend of fiddler, Ben Lennon, and flute-player, Cathal MacConnell (of the Boys of the Lough). Like all accompanists of the time, Ciarán had invented his own style on the instrument, and his playing lies at the heart of the Altan sound, though like all great accompanists, the very perfection of what he does makes it difficult for the casual listener to notice!
With the inclusion of guitarist Mark Kelly in the mid-eighties Altan truly became a band. Though all band members have always had a deep knowledge and love of other musics, as well as Irish, ranging through rock, blues, jazz and country to classical, Mark, more than the others, had actually played other styles, and from the start he showed a gift for tastefully bringing fresh rhythms and chordings to the band arrangements. Mark and Ciarán were heard on the '87 album Altan, which, though not officially a band album, inaugurates the band's studio sound.
But it was live work in '84 -'85 that marked the turning-point for Frankie and Mairéad, encouraging them to give up their teaching jobs and go professional. Particularly influential were short trips to the United States in those years when they played concerts in New York, Minnesota, Madison, Portland and Seattle with Derry guitarist, Dáithí Sproule, a Minnesota resident and like Ciaran and Mark, an old friend. Dáithí had played a big part in an earlier wave of development in the music, being one of the very first people to adapt the guitar to old Gaelic songs (many of which he learnt in the Gaeltacht of Rannafast, just a few miles from Mairéad's home in Gweedore). These US concerts, played in clubs and sometimes in noisy Irish pubs, where people were expecting a very different sort of music, convinced Frankie and Mairéad that no-compromise traditional music played with heart and drive could win over any audience anywhere.
In succeeding years, the band recorded albums for Green Linnet, all of which won accolades and awards and appeared in the Billboard charts - their collaborators on these albums were of the highest caliber and it shows: Donál Lunny, Brian Masterson and Steve Cooney in particular made great contributions over the years. Another friend played with the band for several years, master fiddler, Paul O'Shaughnessey, a dazzling and fiery player with a deep knowledge of Donegal music. The two-fiddle sound stuck, so when, as Altan toured more and more widely, Paul had to leave due to pressure of work, his place was taken by another great young Donegal fiddler, Ciaran Tourish, a player with a special love for the weaving of spontaneous harmony and counterpoint round the melodies of the other lead players.
Through the years audiences are continually struck by the genuine camaraderie and mutual respect among the members of Altan, and this has been vitally important to the band themselves as well as producing a marked effect on live audiences. So when a final element was added to the sound in the early nineties it was another old friend, though not old in years, since the band had known him and his music since he was a boy. Accordion-player Dermot Byrne, another Donegal man was weaned on the music of an older generation of Donegal fiddlers, the Doherty's, the Byrne's and the Cassidy's. While Dermot's status as a complete virtuoso had been secure for many years before he joined the band, it is also part of his gift that he is able to blend seamlessly with other musicians, so Altan just seemed to get tighter and tighter as a performing unit.
Sadly, in the early nineties Altan was dealt a devastating blow, when band leader and manager, Frankie Kennedy, at the height of his powers as a brilliant and innovative flute-player and just when his and Mairéad's musical dreams were being realised, was diagnosed with cancer. Through a long illness, the band, at Frankie's insistence, continued to tour and perform with Frankie's participation whenever possible. No words can describe the effects of his illness and loss on the band, but he continues to be a presence and inspiration in Altan's life and music - more than anything else, Frankie was a lover of life and perhaps the deepest message of all music is that life goes on - no matter what.
Altan's international status and success found a very practical recognition when they were signed in 1996 to Virgin Records, the first Irish band of their kind to be signed by a major label. The band gained gold and platinum albums in Ireland and toured larger venues, literally throughout the world, with tours in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Europe as well as regular successful U.S. tours.
In spite of a hectic touring and recording schedule, Altan continue fresh in their vision of bringing the beauty and joy of traditional music to audiences everywhere, and have always promised themselves to continue as long as it's fun - fortunately, it still is
MONO is a poster rock / instrumental rock band of four people in Tokyo formed in 1999. Their musical style is combined of orchestra and shoegazer , guitar noise. In live performances, they also went on a special show at 23 organizations following New York, Tokyo, London, Melbourne in 2009.
About 150 world tours each year, they have been one of the bands that has won the most audience in the world as a Japanese band over 55 countries so far. Among rock music it is a critic and one of the best live bands who has received a lot of fame.
While releasing 10 albums including a live album with the orchestra at NY and continuing to earn a high reputation both at home and abroad 2015, the short film "Where We Begin" created by collaboration received California's international Awarded the Best Musical Score Award "The Marshall Hawkins Awards: Best Musical Score - Featurette" from the film festival Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema.
In March 2016 Steve Albini was a producer of a new album and recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago. The ninth work, the new album "Requiem For Hell" released on October 14, 2016.
Julien Levy is a French writer and film director. Until now he has been mainly working as a photographer and video grapher in New York, Paris, and has received requests from many high brands such as Chanel, Mew Mew, Harper's Bazaar. From February 2017, he moved the base to Japan, and he is developing a feature film for Nikkatsu distribution. The style which reflected philosophical thought majored in college age strongly is supported by many actors and artists.
Julien Levy studied philosophy in France. Later, as a musician, he travels around the world with his band within the hardcore punk scene. While touring, he shoots his first photography series, soon to be shown in galleries. He then moves to New York City. Over there, he intensifies his work as a multimedia artist (installations, films, artbooks…), before spreading his message through cinema and literature. Today, Julien works as a writer and a director. His work still adopts a do-it-yourself and highly independent method, deeply rooted in radical subcultures. Julien Levy now shares his time between Tokyo and Paris.
This is a concert where chemical reaction between Jamaica and Norway, reggae and future jazz happens.
The jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær will first collaborate with "Sly & Robbie" at this special music event at Blue Note Tokyo (Tokyo).
Please, don't miss it!