SOTU OCCII BAR 21-03
present:
MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ (JP) + LE TON MITÉ (BRX) + ZACH PHILLIPS (US) +
Potty Mouth & Leopold | Japanese underground | experimental rock
ensemble | a comedy of errors | €6 | OCCII |
tONIGht'S bANd:
Tori Kudo : guitar, voice
McCloud Zicmuse : bassoon, alto clarinet, recorders
Naoki Otani : trumpet, voice
Mikiko Suzuki : guitar
Takahashi Tsukasa : percussion
Chie Ozeki : trombone
Eleonore Kenis : alto saxophone
Junko Harada : euphonium
Yumi Goto :
Zach Phillips : bass
Jeremy Latch : clarinet
Eric Kinney : slide guitar
Japanese underground musician Tori Kudo has a recording career spanning
five decades. During this time he’s played with many bands; Guys &
Dolls, noise drone group Worst Noise, the free improv ensemble
Ché-SHIZU, and others. Kudo is also the founder of Maher Shalal Hash
Baz, the experimental rock band he forefronts with his partner Reiko
Kudo.
https://www.thewire.co.uk/video/tori-kudo-explains-his-latest-album-with-an-animation
MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ
Maher Shalal Hash Baz is longrunning and legendary Japanese free folk
collective. So-called ‘primitive’ music that fuses stray elements of
pop, folk, jazz and experimental music into pieces of candid musical
gestures. Their loose micro songs, on the verge of falling apart, are
actually complex and pure compositions in which bassoon, guitar, drums,
trumpet, trombone, clarinet, glass percussion, organ, rocks and sticks
are expanded by a sophisticated counter-repetition technique into an
extensive tonal range of colors; the effect is at turns serene,
dissonant, enchanting, crisp, spacious and maddeningly catchy. The
backbone are scores based on flowers, interweaving wind arrangements
suggesting the passage of bullet trains, reflections on the
imperfections in what may have been created as a perfect world…
Much in the same vein as the Northern Renaissance painters, the
personal messages of Maher Shalal Hash Baz become universal. Their
previous passages in Europe are engraved in our memory, so the notion of
a ‘cult group’ could be only righteous applied to Maher Shalal Hash
Baz.
LE TON MITÉ
A sound making project since 1998.
A
group, at times a band, at times a solo project, appreciated by some,
scorned by others. A project that reacts to a series of rules in some
cases & in other cases, works in total liberty. An ensemble that
plays amazing concerts, but also can mess things up even after many
practices. Whatever it has been, it is about connection. Like a circuit.
Communicating between musicians, communicating with the public. Sharing
short stories about life. A soundtrack.
ZACH PHILLIPS
Composer and Songwriter & Runs OSR Tapes.
Potty Mouth & Leopold
ASIAN SACK HARD
Tokyo, Netherlands
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