This&ThatThis&That Café Vol.3

This&That Vol. 3

“Back to Life”

Tokyo. It’s time. It’s time to climb out of our shells and come back to life. It’s time to gather, create and participate. Come out to greet the spring. Come out to reclaim your creativity and reconnect. Come out for a little bit of this and a little bit of that. It’s OK, really!

Featuring: Callum’s Whiskey Tales, Samm Bennett, Smily&Friends, Maiko Miyagawa, Ahimsa Creative, DJ Jinki, Barro (VJ) and more!

Artist Information:

Callum’s Whiskey Tales

Callum Grant is a Scottish singer song writer who, well, sings and writes songs. When he is not clinking glasses or sharing tales of joy and despair, he performs in Blue Man Group to pass the time. Fellow Blue Man Eric Gebow provides the beat for his ambient guitar and smoky vocals. ‘Now bring me the good stuff and don’t bring me down, because everyone’s welcome, Now lets go to town.’

Samm Bennett

Whether using drums, percussion, voice, electronics, jaw harps, mouth bow, strumstick, toys or random objects, Samm Bennett has spent the last few decades trying to put the right sound in the right place at the right time. He is a frequent performer on the Tokyo scene, where he is known as both a masterful improviser and a unique singer/songwriter. He has performed countless solo concerts over the years, and continues to do so, with a focus on his original songs. These are presented with stark, simple accompaniment, and draw equal inspiration from music traditions of the American south (such as Appalachian folk and Delta blues) as well as from African traditional styles.
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SMILY & Friends

Next Generation Didgeridoo Performer Smily Smily was first introduced to the magical sounds of the didgeridoo while studying abroad in Australia. After returning to Japan, he continued to practice on his own, later adding beat-box and drum’n bass rhythms to produce an unimaginable range of sounds from a single instrument. He is currently active as both a solo artist and in a various collaborations with a wide range of artists. For this performance, Smily teams up with Wataru (keyboard) and J,M,K (Drums) for a transformative sound that will take you on a journey to another world.
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Maiko Miyagawa

Photographer Maiko Miyagawa started taking photos as a high-school student and would later go on to study photography at the Nihon Univerity College of Art. Upon graduation she worked as an assistant for renowned photographer Hidemi Seto and began her solo career in 2003. Today she takes photos of live events including theater, dance and music for magazines, printed advertisements, album covers et al.
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Ahimsa Creative

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DJ Jinki

To ensure his sets retain their authentically homemade digital flavor, DJ Jinki mixes his zeros and ones by hand. For This&That, DJ Jinki will craft a mix which includes Acoustic Crunk, Afro-Gypsy Disco, Baroque Dub, Chamber-Funk, Cabaret-Hop and other musical genres that he completely made up.
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Barro

Barro, aka D.H. Rosen is a Tokyo-based visual artist who loves to play with analog and digital media. His live sets are a combination of prepared digital imagery and spontaneous collage.
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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. A forum for artists from afar to meet with local luminaries amidst the dense and eclectic pool of talent in Tokyo. A venue to gather, exchange ideas, share artistic inclinations and wax poetic in a causal community of old friends and new acquaintances. Come early to get a seat and take advantage of the fetching fare on the SuperDeluxe menu, or just pop in for a drink on
your way home from work. All are welcome. If you have an idea for a future This & That Cafe event, please drop a line to <yakimonos@mac.com>. We look forward to hearing from musicians, DJ, visual artists et al looking for a new and exciting venue for their
expressions.