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This & That Café

This & That Cafe is a free event open to the public in which artists from all genres and backgrounds donate their time and talents in the spirt of sharing. It is a place where music and visual arts meld in unexpected collaborations.

Live: Medicine Bone, Elliot Hasiuk, Dan Cosley, Ryan Mizuno, Matthew Stuckey, David Roy, James Hadfield + more!

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Medicine Bone

Taking their musical cues from North Mississippi hill-country blues artists like Fred McDowell, RL Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, Medicine Bone offer up raw servings of propulsive, riff-driven blues originals, bringing to the Tokyo scene something very unique in its simple honesty and power. Guitarist Ken Shima and drummer Samm Bennett share songwriting and singing duties equally in this funky, neo-primitive duo, dedicated to the idea that the musical past, present and future are all rolled up into one big churning ball, rolling down the hillside, landing in the river and getting carried out into the ocean of human consciousness. This is stripped-down music from a couple of American wanderers with a firm grip on the deep American roots, ready to look you in the eye and tell you some stories while you tap your feet and/or shake your butt.
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Elliot Hasiuk

American Drummer; Trippple Nippples, DJ Aron T, Joseph Nothing, Black Impact, Red Box, Emulsion
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Dan Cosley

Guitarist, composer and improviser, Dan Cosley travels a multifaceted career path. Cosley’s work includes recordings, performances and compositions in a wide variety of contexts. Recent concerts include the première of his Concerto for Guitar, solo concerts in Italy by invitation of the Rome Festival, the world première of Roland Dyens’ Soleils Levants, and numerous performances in Japan. Born in the United States in 1979, Cosley began as an electric guitarist. A precocious improviser, Cosley was soon drawn to jazz and free-improvisation. His academic pursuit of music led to the completion of a Master’s degree in classical guitar performance from the University of Denver where he studied guitar and composition with Ricardo Iznaola and served as Iznaola’s teaching assistant. He has also participated in numerous masterclasses including those of
composer Samuel Adler, and cellist Alban Gerhardt. Cosley currently resides in Tokyo, Japan where he continues his work in classical music performance and composition while pursuing a variety of collaborations in other styles. In 2010, he was the first foreign-born guitarist elected to the Japan Guitar Ensemble Association’s board of directors.
From Bach lute music to avant-garde free-improvisation and electric guitar session work, Cosley is of a rare breed of musicians for whom versatility and excellence are not mutually exclusive attributes.
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Ryan Mizuno

Ryan was born in Seattle, Washington in 1978. He began playing trumpet at 10 years old. In High School, he was a soloist in an orchestra that won many awards and toured Russia and Canada. In 1999, he moved to New York City to pursue a professional career in music, where he produced music for artists like Elisha Laverne, Black Buddafly, Raekwon (Wu Tang Clan), Mobb Deep and Fat Joe. In 2010, Ryan moved to Tokyo, Japan performing as a trumpet player and singer. His music is a blend of R&B/Soul, Hip Hop, Funk, Electronica and Jazz.

Matthew Stuckey (Live Art Projection)

Matt was born in 1979 in Adelaide Australia, Matthew studied illustration and graduated from the University of South Australia in 1999. He has worked as an illustrator and designer for 10 years and began to exhibit his art in commercial galleries a few years ago. Recently he has been increasingly involved in public art, interior design, publishing and curation.
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David Roy (VJ)

David Roy is the resident VJ for London Calling, an ongoing club event in Tokyo. In addition to producing visuals and installations for various events and parties, he also done animation for TV and film studios in Japan.

James Hadfield (DJ)

James is the editor of Metropolis magazine, but don’t hold that against him. He plays saxophone and other things with Ecchi Shoushin, Shit!, The HNK Experience, Jahilyyah and Human Wife, and co-organizes the monthly Fashion Crisis party in Koenji.