Japanese New Music Festival Europe Tour 2003

…about “Japanese New Music Festival Europe Tour 2003”

In 1997 and 1999, a set of performances by 3 musicians (Yoshida Tatsuya, Sasaki Hisashi, Tsuyama Atsushi) around a storm of frenzy and shriek in Europe… and they will be back with even greater power. This time Kawabata Makoto from Acid Mothers Temple joins, and 4 musicians form 5 units. A cappella, cosmic 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!

need more info?

• tour compilation CD Extra
• Magaibutsu ltd.: http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~ruins/

• Oct.2th(Thu) @So What OSLO
  Ticket-price: 120 NOK Grensen 9, N-0159 OSLO, Norway Phone: + 47 22 33 64 66 Fax: + 47 22 33 69 20 http://www.sowhat.no/ Showtime 21.00
• Oct.3th(Fri) @Tou Scene STAVANGER
  Leirvigsveien 22, 4012 Stavanger, Norway Phone: 0047 51 53 05 95 http://www.touscene.com doors open 20:00.. concert start 21:00.. 120 NOK
• Oct.4th(Sat) @Bar Alahuone HELSINKI
• Oct.5th(Sun)
• Oct.6th(Mon) @Nefertiti GOTHENBURG
  Sodra Larmgatan 6, 411 16 Gothenburg, Sweden +46 (0) 31 130025 www.nefertiti.se
• Oct.7th(Tue) off
• Oct.8th(Wed) @Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej WARSAW
• Oct.9th(Thu) @Hipnoza KATWICE
• Oct.10th(Fri) @Szene WIEN
  hauffgasse 26, A-1110 wien tel +43 (1) 749 17 75 http://www.szenewien.com/ UID ATU 156 62 101 20.30
• Oct.11th(Sat) @Kset ZAGREB
  Vankina 17, 10000 Zagreb Croatia
• Oct.12th(Sun) @Shlachthof WELS
  kv waschaecht wels dragonerstr.22 a-4600 Wels Austria ++43-7242-56375 http://www.servus.at/w8 http://www.schl8hof.wels.at
• Oct.13th(Mon) off
• Oct.14th(Tue) @Ausland BERLIN
  Lychener Str.60, 10437 Berlin t:030-4477008 www.ausland-berlin.de doors open 21:30h
• Oct.15th(Wed) @Molotow HAMBURG
• Oct.16th(Thu) @Loft KOLN
  Wissmannstr.30, 50823 KOLN, Germany
• Oct.17th(Fri) @the Garage LONDON
  had been cancelled by the venue without asking to promoter
• Oct.18th(Sat) @Birmingham Academy 2 BIRMINGHAM
  Advance tickets £ 8.00 / More On The Door Doors 6.00-10.00pm Academy 2, Birmingham 52-54 Dale End, Birmingham Venue Telephone: 0121 262 3000http://www.birmingham-academy.co.uk/birmingham/pages/index.cfm
• Oct.19th(Sun) DUNDEE
• Oct.20th(Mon) Glasgow
• Oct.21st(Tue)
• Oct.22dc(Wed) NIJMEGEN/ Lux
  Marienburg 38-39, Nijmegen Tel: 0031 (0)24 3818123 Email: boris@lux-nijmegen.nl http://www.lux-nijmegen.nl/
• Oct.23rd(Thu) @SJU Jazzpodium UTRECHT
  Varkenmarkt 2, Utrecht Tel: 0031 (0)30 2340436 Email: info@sjujazz.nl http://www.sjujazz.nl/
• Oct.24th(Fri) @Magasin 4 BRUSSEL
  rue du magasin,4 Pakhuisstraat B-1000 Brussel +32-02-223-3474
• Oct.25th(Sat) @Mains d’Oeuvres PARIS
  Mains d’Oeuvres 1, rue Charles Garnier 93400 Saint Ouen 01 40 11 25 25 / Fx 01 40 11 25 24 http://www.mainsdoeuvres.org/
• Oct.26th(Sun) off
• Oct.27th(Mon) @Zoobizarre BORDEAUX
  58 rue du Mirail – 33000 Bordeaux – France phone : +33(0)5 56 91 98 18 www.zoobizarre.org
• Oct.28th(Tue) TOULOUSE
  Le Ramier Ile du Ramier, 31000 Toulouse. Time : 20h. Price : 10 euros.
• Oct.29th(Wed) @Sala Apolo BARCELONA
  Sala Apolo Nou de la Rambla 113 08004 Barcelona (Sp) Tel. (+34) 93 441 40 01 Fax. (+34) 93 442 51 83
• Oct.30th(Thu) @Kab / Usine GENEVE
  4 place des Volontaires 1204 Gene`ve ++4122 781 40 57 www.lekab.ch
• Oct.31th(Fri) @Reithalle BERN
  www.dachstock.
• Nov.1th(Sat) @Rote Fabrik ZURICH
  Seestr. 395, 8038 Zurich Phone:0041 1 481 9143 www.rotefabrik.ch 20.30 h
• Nov.2th(Sun) ATHENS
• Nov.3th(Mon) @Borore(Nuoro) SARDINIA
• Nov.4th(Tue)
• Nov.5th(Wed) NAPOLI
• Nov.6th(Thu) @Newton Fest LATINA
• Nov.7th(Fri) @JAM club VENEZIA
• Nov.8th(Sat) @Bloom club Mezzago, close to MILANO

what they are?

Zubi Zuva X (Yoshida Tatsuya / Sasaki Hisashi / Tsuyama Atsushi)

To quest for the vector of “voice”, Yoshida formed this a cappella trio in 1995. It covers from Gregorian chant to ethnic music, to do-wap to hardcore screeming, heavily using irregular rhythms and polyrhythm. All sorts of ideas and aberrant musicality overturn the image of a cappella. Pushing the verge of possiblity of the humnan voice, their totally meaningless lyrics and desperate performances throw the audience into the abyss of the laughter and admiration. it makes the concept of “singing ability” nonsence. “X” is the limited special unit of Zubi Zuva for the tour.

Akaten (Yoshida Tatsuya / Tsuyama Atsushi)

Formed by Tsuyama and Yoshida in 1995 with the motto of “irresponsibleness” and “perfunctoriness”. They easily free themselves from the spell of the traditional seriousness of the art. Using dialy commodities like scissors, toothbrush, zipper, camera and plastic bottle as percussions, and shouting their brand names over and over as the “song”, the show is performed under the concept of low cost and maximum sound effect. They simulate the wild bird songs and sumo live broadcasting; manpowered sampling, so to speak. Akaten is the experimental convenience store punk band that provides the sound images of cheap and simple dialy lives.

Ruins (Yoshida Tatsuya / Sasaki Hisashi)

Formed in 1985, Ruins has still been continuing to develop and deepen their world for over 18 years, reigning as the 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. Ruins started with the noisy hardcore sound, then moved into very technical, complicated sound, and now it shows high-quality performances with both characeristics. True hardcore progressive sound.

Zoffy (Tsuyama Atsushi / Kawabata Makoto)

Formed by Tsuyama and Kawabata 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 classical rock songs, that no longer sounds like anything but Zoffy. The group believes that humor is essential in music, and they unprecedented performances stray far from the beaten track. Is this the Ultima Thule that rock music has long been aiming for? It’s a must if you are interested in the musical backgrounds of the two that are never shown in AMT.

Acid Mothers Temple (mode HHH)

Formed by Kawabata in 1996. Beaming down from their mothership in the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. have rapidly become acclaimed as the greatest, most extreme trippsychedelic group in the world. Releases have appeared on label around the world at an amazing pace, and the magnificence of their live performances is already being whispered of as legendary. On this tour, original AMT members Kawabata and Tsuyama join together with Ruins to make up a unique unit, subtitled “mode HHH (Heretical Heritage Heros)”, and playing glittering cosmic freakout music!