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Yuko Kanetani x Mari Inaba interview

Pop & colorful & Dreamming Visual's making interview with　Yuko Kanetani x Mari Inaba published in the "SuperDeluxe BloG" check it out! (JP only)

ecocolo meets Where Did the Stars Go...

We are excited to announce that "Where Did the Stars Go..." will make a return to SuperDeluxe on August 3rd, and ecocolo magazine (No.28) will print a feature article for "Where Did the Stars Go..." including an interview with Mari Inaba, Yasuko Seki, Ayano Teramoto and Gutevolk on June 20th.
More info about the event here: matinee / evening show

Guitaristival tickets on sale!!

Come check out solo, duo and trio performances by 20 Japanese guitarists. The stellar lineup includes many of the internationally renown artists who have helped define Japanese experimental music as well as an exciting and eclectic mix of young artists. This one day festival celebrates the huge variety of sound and technique possible with the guitar and promises to kick ass. Running order and actual solo/duo/trio combinations will only be revealed at the event. Performances start when the doors open, so come early! Advance tickets available from Lawson Ticket: L-CODE 35804 until Friday 6/27. More info about the event here: Japan Avant Guitaristival

VJ onnacodomo interview

Pop & colorful Visual's making interview with VJ onnacodomo published in the "SuperDeluxe BloG" check it out! (JP only)

Updated photo & video archives

Uploaded some photos from Friday's Mike Watt Session and video from Morgan's Organ #50 along with older clips of Yudayajazz and Jun'ichi Okuyama performing at SDLX. Hoping to get more of the SDLX archive online soon!

Masayasu Tzboguchi(TZB) x Keiji ito interview

Great interview with Masayasu Tzboguchi and Keiji Ito published in the "SuperDeluxe BloG" check it out! (JP only)

Glass Dub Interview!

Great interview with Veno Tagashi and Soma Dai published in the "SuperDeluxe bloG" check it out! (JP only)

Mike Watt cometh!!

Yesterday in Metropolis had a great interview with Mike Watt - who will be in town shortly with KRAMER and joined here at SuperDeluxe by Samm Bennett and Han Bennink for a special first date of the "brother's sister's daughter japan tiny tour 2008"
brother's sister's daughter japan tiny tour 2008
Mike Watt in Metropolis

Han Bennink back too!!

Also Yesterday, The Japan Times printed a preview for our upcoming 3 DAYS with Han Bennink on Feb-8, Feb-9, Feb-10. Each day is both radically different and truly special, so get ready to spend your weekend in roppongi! We can't wait to welcome Han back after the wonderful 2006 ICP concerts and his mind-boggling duos with Imai Kazuo and Pikachu.
DAY 1 - brother's sister's daughter
DAY 2 - two quartets
DAY 3 - exotic inquiry
Han Bennink in The Japan Times

Koch-Schuets-Studer 7 days!!!

The Washington Post, DC Saturday, April 24, 2004; Page C04

Koch-Schütz-Studer's Extreme Improvisation

The Swiss trio Koch-Schütz-Studer uses the enigmatic label "hardcore chambermusic" to describe its genre. Certainly the term chamber music applies in the strictest sense, referring to a small group of instruments played in an intimate setting, as was the case Thursday night at Twins Jazz.

But hard-core is where the stretch of imagination begins.

Like a Jackson Pollock painting, bass clarinetist/saxophonist Hans Koch, cellist Martin Schütz and percussionist Fredy Studer create seemingly random splatters of sound. But the sounds come together in definable sections -- here jazz, there a rock riff, here something à la Jimi Hendrix, there something akin to Karlheinz Stockhausen. The evening's entertainment was entirely improvised, the members of the trio playing off each other and responding to their environment, coming together to create a through-composed suite. One might ask: Is it music? And the answer unquestionably is yes.

Integral to this avant-garde experience are the computer-generated noises that each member controls with an electronic signal processor, manipulating acoustic events that have just happened. Each instrument is pushed to the limit with extended technique: multi-phonics and tongue-clicks on bass clarinet, brass bowls perched atop the snare drum hit with a mallet, electric cello strings struck with the edge of a guitar pick. Dynamic contrast also plays a big role, ranging from straining-to-hear to fingers-in-your-ears.

This is not music for the faint of heart or the traditionalist. But for the brave and open-minded, it is an astonishingly creative and compelling art form created by three masters of their craft.

(by Gail Wein)