From her series of live concerts recorded at the artist-run Plan B in Tokyo, Kazue Kobata presents Ryuichi Ohata and Kazumi Nikaido, two guitar-singing singer-songwriters on the rise.
Kazue Kobata, Tokyo Correspondent, hosts as Tristan Honzinger, Shuichi Chino, and Ryuichi Daijo join forces for the second time in a two hour concert at Tokyo's Plan B. This infinitely complicated gig requires listeners' full attention.
Ryuichi Daijo plays selections from the Neil Young soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's film, Dead Man (1996). Sit back and listen to one of Ryuichi's favorites.
Japan's rocker/free improv musician (since 1970s) Keiji Haino appears on WPS1 for the first time, with an ad-hoc group, Mitochondria Quartet, with 4 young musicians on strings.
A private music session at a quaint local club in downtown Tokyo, with American cellist, Tristan Honsinger, pianist Shuichi Chino, and guitarist Ryuichi Daijo. The aim was to set up an interface between vets and novitiates of freely improvised music.
Japanese guitarist, musician and engineer Ryuichi Daijo introduces The Shaggs and Starfuckers with an undermined hypothesis that the two groups have an enigmatic commonness... light-hearted but uniquely enjoyable sounds.
Ryuichi Daijo introduces a Chilean folklore guitarist/composer Violeta Parra (1917-1967), who composed and played music derived from her love for folklore. Parra also began weaving and painting late in life in a fantastical, surrealistic style.
Kazue Kobata encounters two representatives of Tuvan throat-singing, Japanese-style. This particular type of throat singing is called homei, a variation used mostly for the performance of epic poetry.
Kazue Kobata provides illuminating commentary on this performance of improvised music by contemporary international musicians playing live at Plan B in Tokyo. The bill includes John Butcher, Otomo Yoshihide, Rhodri Davies, and Toshimaru Nakamura.
Kazue Kobata, Tokyo Correspondent, launches her first show. Her series includes experimental music, live performances, and interviews. In this segment, Kobata muses on several musicians and bands currently turning heads in Japan.
Kazue Kobata reports from Tokyo on the Cicala Muta, a Chin Don band - traditionally trained, Pied-Piperlike musicians who appear in the streets in costume to attract crowds for shop promotions.
Kazue Kobata speaks to (and translates) Tsuguhiko Egawa, a young performer and composer whose music is an unusual form of speech that he has invented from overheard conversations and soundtracks.
Part 2 of the Plan B show. Host Kazue Kobata introduces live performances by veteran electronic musicians Sam Bennett, Wataru Okuma and Suichi Chino during this concert at Plan B, the Tokyo artists' collective and performance space.
Hosted by Elise MacAdam, this series explores contemporary cinema through interviews with and discussions about its most pertinent contributors and contributions.
