Japanese New Music Festival - European Tour

JAPANESE NEW MUSIC
FESTIVAL
tour of europe
featuring:


alone
- and -
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE SWR
AKATEN
ZOFFY
TSUYAMA ATSUSHI
KAWABATA MAKOTO
ZUBI ZUVA X

April:
17th Loppen / Copenhagen (Denmark)
18th Villa / Oslo (Norway)
20th WORM / Rotterdam (NL) www.wormweb.nl
21st Vilnius (Lithuania)
23rd MAGASIN4 / Brusselles (BE) www.magasin4.be
24th Point Ephemere / paris (FR) www.pointephemere.org
25th Barcelona (SP)
26th Madrid (SP)
27th Corsica Studio / London (UK) www.corsicastudios.com
28th The Point / Cardiff (UK) www.thepointcardiffbay.com
29th Dublin (IR)
30th Auntie Annie's Porterhouse / Belfast (UK) www.fcmusic.co.uk

May:
3rd Tel Aviv (Israel)
4th Tel Aviv (Israel)(Acid Mothers Gong)
6th Fluc / Vienna (Austria) www.fluc.at
7th L'usine / Geneve (CH) www.usine.ch/
8th Reithalle / Bern (CH)
9th Hirscheneck / Basel (CH) www.hirscheneck.ch
10th Berlin
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and announcing...

at NEARfest X
USA / JUNE 2008

The JAPANESE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
..(Europe / Middle East Tour)
Together on one stage, it's seven of the most innovative acts from Japan's vibrant new music scene!

RUINS (alone)
One of the most innovative composers in Japan, Yoshida Tatsuya is renowned as the founder of the unclassifiable bass and drum duo RUINS. Here Yoshida performs the music of RUINS solo in an unforgettable set of rapid fire, hardcore progressive rock, sung in a language of his own invention.

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE
Acclaimed as the greatest, most extreme trip-psychedelic band in the world, AMT's crushingly acute freakout sound is guaranteed to pulverize.

ZOFFY
The band hints at the members' interests in troubadour and classic rock, but in the end, they sound like nothing but ZOFFY.

TSUYAMA ATSUSHI (solo performance)
Tsuyama has accumulated traditional musics from around the world and dismantled them. Now, through his interpretation, he creates a beautiful, unclassifiable, "new" traditional music.

AKATEN
Using commodities like scissors, toothbrushes, zippers, cameras, and plastic bottles as their instruments of choice, AKATEN is the experimental convenience store punk band that provides the sound images of a cheap and simple daily life.

KAWABATA MAKOTO (solo performance)
Best known for his noise-fuzz guitar in Acid Mothers Temple, here he draws upon a huge reservoir of original techniques that simply cannot be categorized as minimal, drone or experimental.

ZUBI ZUVA X
Japan's premier eccentric poly-rhythmic a cappella ensemble covers everything from gregorian chants to ethnic music, do-wop to hardcore screaming.

This is a can't miss event - and the most fun you will have at a concert this year! All the details are up now at the TOURS page!