I’ve uploaded some pictures of the show of No Fork Droise (+ … for the second and last part) at Fourth Floor last Thursday on Flickr (thank you Hiroko for the pictures).
I think I’ll do a DVD-R of this live too. That will be the second DVD-R release of a No Fork Droise live show after “Picnic in Eboland”, a live at Muryoku Muzenji.
Here is the complete list of the dates of LCDD in Japan. For more details, see this previous post.
I just learned that Kuruu Crew will play on 24th at Highti.
My next live will be on 10 May at Muryuoku Muzenji. I’ll play the toy guitar as a member of Anal-chan Orchestra and play the gas mask with Kumiko Okamura (keyboard, voice) and … (laptop).
The next live of No Fork Droise (23N! - gas mask + Yosei - keyboard/laptop/percussions) will be at Fourth Floor (Kichijouji) on Tuesday 29 April (it’s a day off).
The other acts are:
Jahiliyyah
SeeMyDimple
S.i.N.u(Super.Idol.Noise.Unit)
Last Saturday (12 April) was my second live show at Muryoku Muzenji as a member of the Anal-chan Orchestra (the next time will be 10 May, more details in a forthcoming post). Other members of this orchestra are Anal-chan (voice), Pamu (keyboard), Mazeru na Kiken (drums) and Benkei (keyboard).
We played a cover of Yapoos (this song) and another of the song “Akai Kutsu” (The Red Shoes)
As for the first time, a lot of nice pictures are available here (thank you !).
The Spanish band LCDD is coming for a tour of Japan at the end of May. The full list of the dates is on their myspace and and I’ll give a more detailed one later.
As I’m organizing two of the shows in Tokyo, I’ll at least give the details for these two shows:
25.05 Flying Teapot, Ekoda
w/ toque (Kelly Churko + Tim Olive), nerve net noise with 谷口マルタ正明,
no fork droise
open 18:00 start 18:30 adv. 1000 door 1500 +drink
29.05 Super Deluxe, Nishiazabu
w/ applehead, pico pico, no fork droise,
pika pika, petite pisseuse
open 19:00 start 19:30 adv. 1500 door 2000+drink
If you want an advance ticket, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Some pictures of yesterday’s event at Nana Hari.
DJ Kamisori Mako:
Hippy to Antenna:
炉ーLo (Ro-Lo, organizer of the event):
No Fork Droise (23N! + Yosei) + Alvaro Cassinelli （usagi peluche by petite pisseuse):
Miou-chan aka “Petite Pisseuse” made dolls some months ago for our tour in Europe with droise. There is one doll for each of the members of droise, that is Kakawaka, Yosei and 23N! (left to right on the picture).
In each doll, there is a small electronic circuit, a mic and a speaker. By pushing the button in the right hand, you can record some sound and then play it by pushing the button in the left hand. Initially, each doll contained the sound of the intrument used by each of the members of droise (Kakawka - fork, Yosei - drums, 23N! - toy guitar). Then you could have an idea of what droise sounds like by playing the sounds of the three dolls at the same time.
The a.l.s.o. (Andrea Valvini) tour in Tokyo (he is now in the Kansai area) is over after three live shows. The first at Penguin House, the second at Loop-line and the last one at Super Deluxe.
Here are some pictures of the two first shows.
a.l.s.o. at Penguin House:
Missing Man Foundation at Loop-line:
Instant Places at Loop-line:
No Fork Droise + Alvaro Cassinelli at Loop-line:
Given the low amount of posts and their shortness, I’ll catch up by reviewing the last week. It started with the movie “A l’Intérieur” with Béatrice Dalle that was shown at the French Film Festival in Tokyo. I must admit that I kind of liked the movie even if some parts were very disappointing. But if you liked movies like Haute Tension or even Calvaire, I think you will appreciate A l’Intérieur. And, well, it is always nice to see Béatrice Dalle, especially her talk show after the movie (I don’t think it was the excitation of being in Japan that made her so talkative especially when she replied to a question about her secret for beauty by saying it was a lot of drugs and tobacco).
After that, went to a party and drank too much so I spent the whole Sunday sick in bed. I still managed to submit my project to Ars Electronica just before learning that the deadline was extended again… Anyway, what is done is done, so I don’t have to worry about that anymore.
Monday was back to work and studio in the evening for preparing the live at Muryoku Muzenji on Tuesday. The event was great, a lot of people shown up and I drank too much again. So Wednesday was a day I didn’t remember much, just that I was like a zombie. Thursday was fortunately off in Japan so I could rest a bit before going to see The Locust at SuperDeluxe. There was 2UP too that was great and a band called Shobu that was well, I don’t even know how I can remember their name. I gave a CD of my label to the bassist of The Locust as well as some droise and no fork droise material and he very kindly offered me a T-shirt. Of course I did drink to much again so Friday was a bit like Wednesday except that I was not just a zombie but a salaryman-zombie and as such I couldn’t refuse to come on Saturday to work… So I missed the event with Guilty Connector at 20000V and just watched a lot of Boston Legal episodes while drinking beer and before falling asleep.
I started my Sunday by going to see an exhibition by Pico Pico + Sakabashira Imiri + Shintani Naritada at the Billiken Gallery in Aoyama. There was a small live event too of the three of them and Pico Pico took a walk in Aoyama wearing one of his costumes. It was pretty fun to see him in costume in a place like Aoyama that is pretty “chic”. I bought the manga Aka Taitsu Otoko (The Man in Red Tights) of Sakabashira Imiri who is the mangaka who made the cover of the first release of Even Stilte: Guilty Connector und Tabata.
Then I went to awfully crowded Harajuku to meet with Alvaro Cassinelli who introduced me to some people from the Royal College of Art who were showing some of their projects in the street. We had some beers in Yoyogi and I then went to see an exhibition of Shojo no Tomo at club Wedge in Shimokitazawa. I didn’t know it was a club, so I drank again before heading for Ikenoue, one station away, but got lost in the maze that this area is. I spent a lot of time driving around before finding by chance the place I was looking for, Gari Gari (first time there, a very nice place that somehow reminds me of Muryoku Muzenji but in bigger and a bit less weird). There was a free live event with Jahiliyah that I missed as I got lost but could see Hisspiss again and another very fun band called Motallica. I noticed a poster for “The Hiding“, the new film of Fukui Shouzin (Rubber Love, 964 Pinocchio) that will be released on 10 May in Japan.
I could confirmed that Toque (Kelly Churko and Tim Olive) will play at the show I’m organizing at Flying Teapot on 25 May along with LCDD and some other acts to be decided. The other confirmation is an event at Super Deluxe on 29 May again with LCDD and with Applehead, Pico Pico, Pika Pika, Petite Pisseuse and No Fork Droise. I will give the details later of the LCDD Japan Tour.
I just finished uploading the video of the live we did at Muryoku Muzenji last Tuesday (2008.03.18) for the first volume of Throbbing Cathedral (co-organized with Cal). It was the first live of No Fork Droise with this configuration (Yosei was playing the drums and me the noise gas mask).
The video is available in three parts (sorry about that) on YouTube. Thank you to Miou-chan for shooting me (beginning of the third part, unfortunately the blood didn’t flow as much as I expected…) and to all the people who came.
An event pretty different than the one on 18 March (Throbbing Cathedral) that Cal Lyall and me are organizing different will be on 30 March at Loopline:
No Fork Droise (Computer & Toy Guitar)+ A. Cassinelli (visual)
Missing Man Foundation
Instant Places
a.l.s.o. (Andrea Valvini)
open 18:30 start 19:00
1500yens + 1 drink order
And because it’s free so you have no excuse for not coming, there is a Test Tone (already the 32nd !) on 8 April at Super Deluxe.
I should have known it. The deadline for Ars Electronica has been extended. Well, extending the deadline is pretty common for scientific conference but I wasn’t really expecting Ars Electronica to extend it. It’s a very good news as I have two business trips this week and the former deadline was on Friday. And because I didn’t know about the extension before yesterday evening, I could make some progress on my submission.
I just regret I didn’t go to a noise show on Saturday, but there will be others soon anyway.
February should have been a calm month as there was no live shows for me this month. I think it is the first time since I started playing live shows last year that there is a month without a single show. Anyway, things should come back to usual with several shows in March, April and already something planned for May.
No live shows but I decided to submit something to Ars Electronica (and may be two projects) so I’m pretty busy with that. Moreover I’m co-organizing a date for a.l.s.o. (at Loop-line, details later) and trying to organize some dates for LCDD in May/June.
No Fork Droise is evolving too, may be I have to come with different names for these projects that are pretty different… The show on 18 March will be the first one of the new (improved ?) No Fork Droise: a noise/drums duo focused on the performance and less improvised. The other project is No Fork Droise + Alvaro Cassinelli (already two shows together) that will be playing on 30 March at Loopline but without Alvaro Cassinelli (but with his visual) and on 6 April at Nana Hari (I hope with Alvaro).
I bought these cans a while ago and never opened them. I must admit that I’m a bit afraid of eating them ! The black one contains ramen and the pink one oden. But as they could make nice pen containers, I’ll have to try them one of this day.
The new visual show by Sebastian of 6% DokiDoki (The pink shop and gallery in Harajuku) is entitled “Thousand and One Nights” and will be shown on 22, 23 and 24 February.
Miou-chan has made the costume of a harp player and will appear as a “suna hebi” (sand snake) at the end of the show (for the final scene). During the show, an actor will play the “suna hebi”. The sand snake costume as well as a lot of costumes of the show have been made by PicoPico.
The first release of Even Stilte is finally back in stock ! I’m talking about the famous Guilty Connector und Tabata release with a great cover by Imiri Sakabashira. So if you don’t have it or if you want it on CD, just ask me ! It’s 10euros (postage paid, world). Or you can order it through the mailorder (it’s back too !).
And the other reason to get this release is that I’ll soon release the new album of Guilty Connector & Tabata. I’ll give more details later.
I sometimes go to eat my lunch at the University of Tokyo as my workplace is just few minutes away and I have some friends working there. When I went there on Tuesday, I noticed a yellow poster with a blue monkey surrounded by glasses. I was wondering what was this poster and read “Iya yo aruhara iya yo”. The most important word is “Aruhara” that is a contraction of Alcohol (arukooru) and Harassment (Harasumento). I knew about Sekuhara (Sexual Harassment) but it is the first time I see a campaign against Aruhara. But I can easily understand why such a campaign is needed in Japan and may be especially in a university. In Japan it is quite common to drink with your colleagues and your boss and if someone refuses to drink, it can be perceived as a refusal to join the group, to be a part of it. So the social pressure can be pretty strong on a non-drinker and certainly that a non-drinker forced to drink is more likely to misbehave than someone that is used to drink. It should be noted that usually it is not a matter of knowing who can drink the most but only a matter of participating to a social ritual. And for someone not used to that, it can be quite strange to see his boss or professor totally drunk.
Great noise event at Shinjuku Urga last Tuesday (just after another great show with 20 Guilders = Tabata Mitsuru and Suzuki Junzo who both released solo albums on Utech Records) with a pretty impressive line-up: Astro, K.K. Null, Jazkamer, Justice Yeldham, Government Alpha, Kelly Churko,…
I unfortunately forgot my camera but Hern42 was there too and sent me some pictures he took.
For those who’ve never saw Justice Yeldham live, I can only highly recommend it (or at least watch some videos on YouTube).
