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tron event: report

On Saturday evening was event "tron" held at SuperDeluxe, where we went mainly to see Hosaka Akane whose album "Niko Niko Denki Muzic" is just out on French label Sonore!

Akane was on stage first, performing a set with her laptop, some Casios and her Stylophone. She played mostly songs from her new album, of course, and at least a new one that I hadn't heard before. The bass sounding really good at SuperDeluxe, that was a great new environment to experience her music.

Next up was guitarist/singer-songwriter Kinoshita Misato who performed just by herself. She had quite good skills and a nice voice. Her first album "umi Tokyo sayonara" is out on HEADZ.

Then it was artist Christopher Willits (MySpace) from San Francisco, who last year collaborated with Sakamoto Ryūichi for an album ("Ocean Fire" out on label commmons). He played guitar which he looped and put effects on, while playing with a Mac and what looked like a Kaos pad and some other gear. It was quite a good performance backed up with some photo slideshow video. He looked like a very nice guy. He'll be playing again on June 23 from 20:00 at the Aoyama Book Center in Roppongi for free (and meanwhile he will be in Osaka, Kyoto and Kanazawa).

Last up was FilFla, a "solo" unit of Sugimoto Keiichi (FourColor, fonica) who played guitar. The band of four played over a sometimes glitchy backtrack, adding drums, guitar, bass and some keyboards. The keyboardist girl sang on some songs in a very soft voice, at times it was clearly in Japanese, but other times I couldn't get in what language it was (then again I thought that it was better that way than if it were clearly mispronounced English, I liked to imagine that it was Swedish or something). Their sound also reminded me a little bit of Yucca (MySpace).

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Of course this event was the right place to get my hands on Akane's new album. I opened it right away to get it signed! :) And not much could make me happier than finding my name in the thanks!! Order yours now at Sonore.

Akane can be caught next at Enban on June 28, with a brand new unit called Kawashima Circulation Bus Line. Details at Tokyo Gig Guide (I'll post them on my agenda soon too).

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Last, here's a really strange-looking flower that I saw earlier in Nakano. Someone on Flickr kindly identified it for me, it's a passion flower (fr.: passiflore, ja.: トケイソウ = tokeisō), of the plant that makes passion fruits.

Larger sizes and more photos at Flickr

Posted on June 15, 2008 at 10:50 | Tweet |

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