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Curry and Farm Party 2: live report
Yesterday was a day of curry and indies music. We woke up late and went to have "lunch" at about 3 PM at Culcutta Café@和ちゃん in Higashi-Nakano. It was our first time there but friendly chef soon started talking about India and also showed us her toy elephant's photo diary of a trip from a few days ago. She serves various Indian curries. That was really good and we will surely be going back!
Just a few hours later at 19:00, we were off to have more curry, at an event by Indian food unit Masala Wala held at Enban in Koenji. For ¥1600 you get all you can eat curry, a drink, and also some live music. When we got there we could catch a bit of a rehearsal of band conti, featuring one of the guys from Masala Wala on sitar! Later there was a show of two guys playing improvised drums and percussions under a blue sheet. Very Enban! The curry was really great too, so many kinds of food! There was also vada, "chicken 65", pakola and more.
We really wanted to hear some more sitar, but we had another place to go, so we left just a bit past 20:00, heading for Gamuso in Asagaya where was being held Farm Party 2, an event organized by the great Tokyo Gig Guide.
We got there catching the end of a set by tsuma-saki, a trio of girls playing synths and drums. They were followed by Abikyokan, a band of three guys of different nationalities (UK, US, Japan) though this time they were accompanied by organizer Craig and another.
Next was Hosaka Akane, the main reason we went to this show! Her set was along the usual lines with a selection of her best songs, though she opened with a great new song, "uchū no korisu-chan" (translates to "The little squirrel in/from space", the last song in her playlist at MySpace). Also different from her usual shows was the audience's reaction, while her shows often have a quiet audience this time there was lots of laughing and even singing along to her cute melodies, surely thanks to the event's variety.
Last up was another band from the Enban scene (like Akane), called Living Astro. The band is a guy and a girl playing guitar, bass and various electronics. Their songs are mainly short, experimental and beatless. They were quite good!
Today we had some curry for lunch too..!
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Text and photos by Patrick Benny (chipple.net) [...] We really wanted to hear some more sitar, but we had another place to go, so we left just a bit past 20:00, heading for Gamuso in Asagaya where was being held...
May 5, 2010 at 14:45