Season's greetings and best wishes for the New Year from Hikashu.
Hikashu Monthly Concert 2023:
January 25 (Wed.)
February 27 (Mon.)
March 28 (Tue.)
April 24 (Mon.)
@ Star Pine's Cafe
Kichijoji, Tokyo
Latest album "LA LA WHAT" released on Dec 8 2021 INFO * Upcoming - Monthly Concert @ SPC Kichijoji Tokyo JAN 25 (Makigami's Birthday), FEB 27, MAR 28 and APR 24
Season's greetings and best wishes for the New Year from Hikashu.
Hikashu Monthly Concert 2023:
January 25 (Wed.)
February 27 (Mon.)
March 28 (Tue.)
April 24 (Mon.)
@ Star Pine's Cafe
Kichijoji, Tokyo
マンスリーヒカシュー2022
— ヒカシューファンクラブ (@hikashufanclub) December 30, 2022
『唐突という執着』
ゲスト:イノヤマランド/マリアンヌ東雲/KERA
ご来場&ご視聴ありがとうございました🌟
年末に相応しく、アンコールまで超大盛り上がり&贅沢なライブでした🎹
来年はヒカシュー45周年🎉
来年もよろしくお願いします!
#マンスリーヒカシュー pic.twitter.com/RdBo1LslqJ
On December 30, there was the year's end concert with guests at Star Pine's Cafe Kichijoji, and Hikashu had finished the activities of this year.
And it's officially announced that the monthly concert series at SPC will continue in 2023. Now it's 5th year.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the things 'go back to normal' anytime soon, but Hikashu will be active as ever, and we can expect a new album is coming. The band certainly have a new material to fill an album. Some of them are already performed in public, and we can say it sounded great. So let's look forward to the album. Have a nice new year's eve.
Hikashu will hold a year's end concert at Star Pine's Cafe on December 30, 2022.
For years, Hikashu has been holding a special concert around christmas season with guests, Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, this event has been halted. Now the situation is gradually changing, and this year's end concert is one of their attempts to 'back to normal'.
The guests are Inoyama Land, Kera, and Marianne Shinonome from Kinoko Hotel.
The concert will be long one so started early. The hours is different than usual so be careful.
December 30, 2022
"Hikashu Monthly 2022"
guest: Inoyama Land, Kera, Marianne Shinonome
@ Star Pine's Cafe
Kichijoji, Tokyo
open 15:30 - start 16:00
adv 4,000 yen - at door 4,500 yen
There will be streaming broadcast available and ticket is sold at e+ (e-plus) (sorry, outside Japan is not supported).
Star Pine's Cafe, Kichijoji, Tokyo
This year's Jazz Art Sengawa has been slated to December due to the renovation of the venue, Sengawa Theater of Chofu, Tokyo.
Hikashu's appearance is scheduled to the afternoon of December 3rd. This is a special program - a continuation of the project "Kabakov's Dream" which have performed in Niigata this summer (see here for details). The project is a work in progress, and the audience is going to see it in a working stage.
The entire schedule is as follows:
December 1, 2022
"A Wind from Berlin"
Takase Aki (p), Daniel Eltman (sax), Uchihashi Kazuhisa (g), Nakaya Akiko (alive painting)
19:00-
guest: Ino Nobuyoshi (b)
December 2, 2022
"Running in the Sky"
Samm Bennett (per), Fujiwara Kiyoto (b), Akaihirume (vo), Nagamine Maki (scenography)
19:00-20:30
December 3, 2022
"Kabakov's Dream Continued"
Hikashu
Makigami Koichi (vo, cor, thermin), Mita Freeman (g), Sakaide Masami (b), Shimizu Kazuto (p), Sato Masaharu (ds)
guest: Koketsu Masayo (sax)
14:30-16:00
"What a Wonderful World"
Arthur Binard (poetry), Nanao Tavito (vo, g), Kumasaka Rutsuko (accordion), Sakamoto Hiromichi (vc, etc)
19:00-20:30
December 4, 2022
"Wonderful World of Idiosyncratic Playing"
Tokushu Soho Yon [Tachibana Hideki (alto sax), Kita Yoichiro (tp), Takahashi Yasuyuki (tb), Honto Misaki (baritone sax)], Yamaga Gaku (g), Sakamoto Hiromichi (vc, etc)
11:00-
"Trio looking for a bone of jellyfish"
Makigami Koichi (vo), Sato Yoshiaki (accordion), Kanda Yoshiko (percussion)
15:00-
Each set - 3,500 yen
The tour has ended and an album is coming.
The Japan tour of Chirgilchin, one of the leading ensembles of Tuvan throat singing, was held in October 2022, which was organized by Makigami Koichi, and it was a success as most shows were eventually sold out.
Now Makigami and co. are preparing a live album of the ensemble and taking pre-order.
The album is selected from the recordings of the tour. Unfortunately the albums of Chirgilchin are now hard to find and there's a huge demand of the recordings, so Makigami's effort is trying to fill the gap.
You can place pre-order through the following form.
Chirgilchin Japan Tour 2022 live CD pre-order - HIKASHU music store
Find troubling? Comment here, or use the contact form of the right bar, so we can help you safely placing the order.
The forthcoming album is scheduled to be shipped around mid-December 2022.
本日 #日経新聞 夕刊より。#チルギルチン を取り上げていただきました。日経新聞にホーメイ取り上げてもらったの初めてかな? 「喉をマジカルに響かせる」とか、「かような超然とした手作りの表現」とか言葉遣いが見慣れない感じ。 pic.twitter.com/cdWlNLb7IU
— ayako makigami (@aya7216) October 25, 2022
The tour was covered by various newspapers. This is an article by Nikkei, which is a major economic paper, equivalent to the Finantial Times from the UK. (Actually Nikkei now owns FT.)
Chirgilchin at Granship Hall, Shizuoka
Chirgilchin in Kamakura
In October 2022, Chirgilchin, an influential throat-singing group from Tuva, tours Japan. The tour is organized by Makigami Koichi.
The dates are:
October 7 - Shinmai Media Garden, Matsumoto, Nagano
October 8 - Shinmai Media Garden, Matsumoto, Nagano (sold out)
October 9 - Granship Hall, Shizuoka, Shizuoka
October 10 - Haremame, Daikanyama, Tokyo (sold out)
October 11 - Haremame, Daikanyama, Tokyo (sold out)
October 14 - Mojo, Tokorozawa, Saitama (sold out)
October 15 - Kiunkaku, Atami, Shizuoka
October 16 - Jochiji, Kamakura, Kanagawa
(October 5 update - Oct 10 is sold out, and Oct 11 is newly added.)
(October 7 update - Oct 8, 11 and 14 are also sold out.)
Chirgilchin, meaning "dance of the air in the heat of the day" or "miracle" in Tuvan, is a group of Tuvan musicians performing traditional Tuvan music. It was established in 1996.
Currently, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has created barriers not only to economic but also to various cultural exchanges.
Tuva is no exception.
Music is the greatest thing that can affect the human mind.
We can communicate with each other, even if there is a difference between countries and languages.
Friends in Russia and Ukraine, without discrimination, will always be friends.
With Khoomei, which seems to be pouring down from the heavens,
We can seek for peace from the very root of our being.
Go see them if you have any slightest interest in it. This is a very precious opportunity for all of us. Chirgilchin is one of the top of the field, and considering the current situation, seeing them perform in Japan is itself a miracle. So go see them and experience the great tradition from Siberia.
The most recommended date is the Shizuoka Granship concert on October 9 because of its nice acoustics.
The details of each date are as follows:
October 7&8, 2022On July 30, Makigami Koichi will tackle with the works of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov in a live setting.
Kabakovs are Russian-American conceputual artists originally from Ukrainian region of Soviet Union, now a US residents.
Throughout his forty-year plus career, Kabakov has produced a wide range of paintings, drawings, installations, and theoretical texts—not to mention extensive memoirs that track his life from his childhood to the early 1980s. In recent years, he has created installations that evoked the visual culture of the Soviet Union, though this theme has never been the exclusive focus of his work.
In 2000, Makigami came to know about Kavakov's work for the first time and has been inspired from their work since then.
This time, with a special setting located in Niigata, a perfecture of Chubu region of the mainland Japan, Makigami and his band Hikashu, with additional members, will perform some songs based on the texts of Kavakov's work.
"When I see Kavakov's work, I can hear some imaginary music through the gaps in the accompanied texts from the installations. Here I try to discover an imaginary called Kavakov's Dream in this occasion. With something in my back - maybe wings of angels, or a box of light."Makigami Koichi
The members are:
Hikashu
Makigami Koichi (vocal, theremin), Mita Freeman (guitar), Sakaide Masami (bass), Shimizu Kazuto (piano, keyboards), Sato Masaharu (drums)
with
Koketsu Masayo (alto saxophone), Ito Chieko (dance), Nakayama Akiko (live painting)
Also, on July 31, there are a workshop for voice and mouthharp (11:00 start) and solo performance (15:00 start) of Makigami at the same venue.
Remember, this is a special evening with special program. So do not miss it.
July 30, 2022