Mori Ikue 'Kibyoshi' Japan Tour

Next week, Makigami Koichi will participate in the Japan tour of Mori Ikue's "Kibyoshi" performance.

It's a mixed media presentation based on Kibyoshi, a genre of Japanese picture book produced from 1775 to the early 18th century (wikipedia).

About 20 years ago, John Zorn gave her a book regarding Kibyoshi and she was soon fascinated with it. She vaguely envisioned for making a piece of work about it some day. In 2000, she started making music and animation with computer. At first she used a Bali art for motif and gradually turned to her roots, Japanese Culture. "Kibyoshi" is the latest project she committed.

For "Kibyoshi" DVD, Mori created animation and laid the basic tracks for herself, then Makigami and Marc Nauseef overdubbed their parts.

In this tour, Mori and Makigami are the regular member, and there are some musicians participated as guest so the personel is different for each date.

The tour dates are:

June 15 - Oriental Hotel Chapel, Hiroshima
June 16 - Dainana Geijutsu Gekijo, Osaka
June 17 - Uplink Theatre, Shibuya, Tokyo
June 18 - Uplink Theatre, Shibuya, Tokyo
June 19 - Cinema Maebashi, Maebashi, Gunma
June 21 - Hinoki Charity Hall, Yugawara, Kanagawa
June 22 - Shimokitazawa Alley Hall, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo

The work and performance sound pretty interesting and it's surely a must-see.


June 15, 2011
@ Oriental Hotel Chapel
Hiroshima
personnel: Mori Ikue (animation, electronics), Makigami Koichi (narration, theremin, mouth harp), Yoshimi (percussions)
open 18:30 - start 19:00
adv 4,000 yen - at door 4,500 yen
call for reservation at 082-240-9463 (in Japanese) 11:00-20:00

Oriental Hotel, Hiroshima

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June 16, 2011
@ Dainana Geijutsu Gekijo
Osaka
personnel: Mori Ikue (animation, electronics), Makigami Koichi (narration, theremin, mouth harp), Yoshimi (percussions)
open 19:00 - start 19:30
adv 3,000 yen - at door 3,500 yen
Tickets now available at Ticket Pia

Dainana Geijutsu Gekijo, Osaka

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June 17, 2011
@ Uplink Theatre
Shibuya, Tokyo
personnel: Mori Ikue (animation, electronics), Makigami Koichi (narration, theremin, mouth harp), Uchihashi Kazuhisa (guitar, daxophone), Jim O'Rouke (guest)
open 19:00 - start 19:30
adv 2,500 yen - at door 3,000 yen


June 18, 2011
@ Uplink Theatre
Shibuya, Tokyo
personnel: Mori Ikue (animation, electronics), Makigami Koichi (narration, theremin, mouth harp), Uchihashi Kazuhisa (guitar, daxophone), Nakahara Masaya (guest)
open 18:30 - start 19:00
adv 2,500 yen - at door 3,000 yen

Uplink Theatre, Shibuya, Tokyo

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June 19, 2011
@ Cinema Maebashi
Maebashi, Gunma
personnel: Mori Ikue (animation, electronics), Makigami Koichi (narration, theremin, mouth harp), Uchihashi Kazuhisa (guitar, daxophone)
open 18:30 - start 19:00
adv 3,000 yen - at door 3,500 yen
call for reservation at 027-231-8000 (in Japanese)

Cinema Maebashi, Gunma

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June 21, 2011
@ Hinoki Charity Hall
Yugawara, Kanagawa
personnel: Mori Ikue (animation, electronics), Makigami Koichi (narration, theremin, mouth harp), Uchihashi Kazuhisa (guitar, daxophone), Motonaga Taku (shakuhachi), Kanda Yoshiko (percussion)
open 18:30 - start 19:00
adv 3,000 yen - at door 3,500 yen (student 1,000 yen)

Hinoki Charity Hall, Yugawara

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June 22, 2011
@ Shimokitazawa Alley Hall
Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
personnel: Mori Ikue (animation, electronics), Makigami Koichi (narration, theremin, mouth harp), Uchihashi Kazuhisa (guitar, daxophone), Motonaga Taku (shakuhachi), Kanda Yoshiko (percussion), Jim O'Rourke (synthesizer)
open 19:00 - start 19:30
adv 4,300 yen - at door 4,800 yen

Shimokitazawa Alley Hall, Tokyo

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note: Jim O'Rourke (June 17) and Nakahara Masaya (June 18) are talk session participants and will not perform.