New Sound Sanctuary (Live Performance)東京都初耳区（ライブ・パフォーマンス）

Eager to discover new music that we had never experienced, we opened “New Sound Sanctuary” on September 29 last year. New talents and experienced artists shared a stage and stimulated each other’s expression that unforgettable night. This year, the entrance gate to the Sanctuary opens again! Live: Masafumi Yamamoto Plum Yosuke Nomura Miho Maruyama Guest Artist: Merzbow X Tatsuya Nakamura MURASAKI Ticket on Sale Aug 30 (Sat) e+, SuperDeluxe Reservation All nonreserved seats. Entrance in the order of the number on the ticket (except sound installation). New Sound Sanctuary (Sound Installation) from Dec. 2 to 4 is admission free with a ticket stub of New Sound Sanctuary (Live Performance). Numbers are not issued for online reservations at SuperDeluxe (payment at door). Entrance shall be after eplus ticket holders and on a first-come basis. Produced by SuperDeluxe Artist Information: MURASAKI  SOON KIM, one of the few musicians who studied under Ornette Coleman and conprehended the theory and practice of Coleman’s Harmolodics, which is said to be the biggest mystery of music history in the 20th century, has just formed this band that comprises saxophone, noh instrument otsuzumi and double bass. His collaboration with Nobuyoshi Ino, a state-of-the-art jazz basist who has played with a number of musicians including Masayuki Takayanagi, Elvin Jones and Masahiko Togashi, “the king of modern bass” Kiyoto Fujiwara and a group of otsuzumi players led by Shonosuke Okura, one of Japan’s intangible cultural treasures, creates absolutely new harmolodic groove that defies Japanese traditional music, Western modern music and even Japanese–Western / traditional–modern fusion. Masafumi Yamamoto  Based in Osaka, he calls himself a “laboring artist.” Plum  Born Chie Ozeki in 1981. 156cm. Began singing at clubs in Gifu, where she is based, as Plum when she was around 18 years old. Along with solo activities she has played with a hip-hop group, formed a piano + vocal unit and sung at a snack bar where oldies bands would play, and recently focuses on solo songs with the piano. Currently also a member of Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Among her recent releases are Fountain days by pd (2011), No. by plum (2012) and Kokyu (Breath) by Chie Ozeki (2013). Yosuke Nomura  Has played with diverse musicians including Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Tatsuhiko Asano, Tadashi Kumihara and Toshiji Mikawa and organized various events. Won the Jun Sakurai Award in Chiyoda Arts Festival 2013. Sent the tracks that he had recorded and accumulated alone to New Sound Sanctuary and was selected. Miho Maruyama  Born in Tokyo in 1991. Started her activities while studying media arts and programming as a student. Creates sounds interweaving loose beats with noise. [Miho Maruyama Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/lisverb) Merzbow  A vegan straightedge noise project by Masami Akita. Getting involved in the noise/industrial scene in the early 80s, he started to release recordings mainly from overseas labels. In the 90s, influenced by the grindcore movement, he released albums from the death metal label Relapse. In the 2000s, in support of Mego’s “punk computer music,” he employed a laptop for live performances. Since around 2003, he has been practicing vegan diet advocating animal rights and creating works against whale fishery, dolphin fishry and furs. Recently he focuses on sound creation with analog equipments. photo © Jenny Akita [Merzbow Homepage](http://merzbow.net/) Tatsuya Nakamura  Born in Toyama in 1965. Played the drums in a number of bands including The Genbaku Onanies and The Stalin, and formed BLANKEY JET CITY in 1990 with Kenichi Asai and Toshiyuki Terui. After the band broke up, he released five albums of his own project LOSALIOS and involved himself in a lot of sessions with Japanese and international artists from jazz, avant-garde and other diverse backgrounds. His current activities, in addition to LOSALIOS, include a range of projects such as FRICTION, TWINTAIL and SPEEDER-X. He has also been active as an actor and appeared in such films and TV drama as BULLET BALLET, Nada So So, The Blood of Rebirth and Ryoma-den. [Tatsuya Nakamura - losalios.com/](http://www.losalios.com/) Sound Live Tokyo Organizers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government; Tokyo Culture Creation Project Office (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture); PARC – Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication [www.soundlivetokyo.com](http://www.soundlivetokyo.com) Art Work by [Tetsuya Nagato](http://www.nagato.org/)