Keiji Haino | Dōjō | Kukangendai灰野敬二｜道場｜空間現代

Thank you, love you, see you soon! SuperDeluxe Closing Celebration

SuperDeluxe presents
Don’t miss the final performances at SuperDeluxe by these world renown Japanese artists. A specially curated lineup spanning three generations.

Live:

★ Keiji Haino
★ Dōjō (Michiyo Yagi & Tamaya Honda)
★ Kukangendai

BGM selector:

★ Yasunori Ikunishi

Artist Information:

Keiji Haino

Born in Chiba on May 3, 1952. Inspired by Antonin Artaud he aimed for the theatre, but an encounter with The Doors stimulated him into music, where he has examined and absorbed a wide range of music from the early blues especially Blind Lemon Jefferson or European medieval music to popular songs across the world. In 1970 he joined a group “Lost Aaraaf” named after Edgar Allan Poe’s poem as a vocalist. Meanwhile, he started to work on home recordings and self-taught the guitar and percussions. In 1978 he formed a rock band “Fushitsusha,” and since 1988, after a recuperation period from 1983 to 1987, he has been internationally active in various forms including solo, groups such as Fushitsusha, Nijiumu, Aihiyo, Vajra, Sanhedrin, Seijaku, Nazoranai or The Hardy Rocks and DJ as “experimental mixture,” as well as collaborations with artists from different backgrounds, drawing the performance of the guitar, percussions, the hurdy gurdy, diverse wind and string instruments, local instruments from across the world and DJ gears to the extreme through unique techniques. He has released more than 170 recordings and performed live at least 1,500 times.
Photo by Hideto Maezawa

Dōjō
Michiyo Yagi (electric 21-string koto, 17-string bass koto, electronics, voice)
Tamaya Honda (drums, percussion)

Koto player Michiyo Yagi and drummer Tamaya Honda forged their unusual musical alliance in 2007 and adopted the name “Dōjō” the following year. From the beginning Dōjō gigs were MMA-like affairs, with Yagi and Honda engaging in highly intense interactions with a revolving cast of illustrious guests including Akira Sakata, Elliott Sharp, Keisuke Ōta, Natsuki Kido, Samuel Blaser, Jim O’Rourke, Peter Brötzmann, and Eivind Aarset. With Yagi incorporating electronics into her playing in recent years, Dōjō has been performing more often as a duo, and their music has become more groove-oriented while retaining the intensity of free jazz. Dōjō has released two acclaimed CDs featuring collaborations with Sakata, Ōta, Nils-Petter Molvaer and Paal Nilssen-Love, while recordings with Aarset, Jon Irabagon and others are on the way.
Photo by Moto Uehara

MICHIYO YAGI studied the traditional Japanese transverse harp known as the koto under the late Tadao Sawai and Kazue Sawai, and graduated from the NHK Professional Training School for Traditional Musicians. During her subsequent tenure as Visiting Professor of Music at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, U.S.A. she premiered numerous modern compositions for koto and came under the influence of maverick American composers such as John Cage, Christian Wolff, Conlon Nancarrow, and John Zorn. Yagi’s debut CD Shizuku was produced by Zorn and released on his Tzadik label in 1999. In 2001 she recorded Yural (BAJ/ewe) with her multi-koto ensemble Paulownia Crush — this group toured Russia under the auspices of the Japan Foundation in 2004. In 2005 Yagi released Seventeen (Zipangu), entirely performed on the giant 17-string bass koto. Live! at SuperDeluxe (Idiolect), a trio performance with Norwegians Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (contrabass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), followed a year later. In 2008 Rikskonsertene, the national concert institute of Norway, sponsored a two-week tour by Yagi, Nilssen-Love, and German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, a trio that has performed internationally since 2006 and released Head On (Idiolect, 2008) and Volda (Idiolect, 2010). Reflexions (Idiolect/Bomba), an album of duets with the experimental New York guitarist Elliott Sharp, was released in 2010. Ichi No Maki [Vol. 1] (Idiolect), credited to Dōjō, Yagi’s “power duo” with Japanese jazz drummer Tamaya Honda and featuring guests Nils Peter Molvær (trumpet) and Paal Nilssen-Love, was chosen “Jazz Album of the Year” by the eminent Tokyo-based monthly Music Magazine in 2014. Soul Stream, a quartet session with Joe McPhee (pocket trumpet, saxophones), Lasse Marhaug (electronics) and Nilssen-Love; and Angular Mass, a trio with Marhaug and Nilssen-Love, were both released in 2015 on PNL Records. Yagi’s most recent recordings are Ni No Maki [Vol. 2], a second Dōjō CD featuring guests Akira Sakata (reeds & voice) and Keisuke Ohta (violin), and the simultaneously released Decayed: Live at Aketa no Mise, with Haker Flaten, Nilssen-Love and guest Henry Kaiser (both Idiolect, 2017). An album of ambient music co-produced by the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset, a trio recording with Giovanni Di Domenico (keyboards) and Chris Corsano (drums), and another trio work with Corsano and Mette Rasmussen (alto saxophone) are forthcoming. A CD of original compositions featuring Yagi’s vocals is currently in post-production, and a contemporary classical recording of written and commissioned music is also in development. An eclectic performer who continually challenges conventions, Yagi has played at the Moers, Kongsberg Jazz, Punkt, Újbuda Jazz, Musique Actuel Victoriaville, Archipel, Bang on a Can, Tokyo Summer, Vision, Instal, Jazztopad, Sengawa Jazz, Fuji Rock, and Music Unlimited festivals. Notable co-performers include Mark Dresser, Akira Sakata, Sidsel Endresen, Han Bennink, Alan Silva, Jim O’Rourke, Kazutoki Umezu, Raz Mesinai, Yoshihide Otomo, Ned Rothenberg, Knut Buen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Satoko Fujii, Håkon Kornstad, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Masahiko Sato, Thomas Strønen, Carl Stone, Billy Bang, Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, Roger Turner, Painkiller, Gerry Hemingway, Mani Neumeier, Hijōkaidan, and Sachiko M. Yagi’s koto has been featured in ex-Judy & Mary guitarist/singer Takuya’s band, and she has recorded with neo-prog rocker Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), J-pop idol Ayumi Hamasaki, and singer-songwriter Angela Aki. Most recently she has been featured in concerts and recordings by singer/actress Kō Shibasaki. In addition to leading the Michiyo Yagi Trio and performing solo concerts — all with an emphasis on her original compositions, extended techniques, and unique vocals based on the traditional jiuta style — she continues to be active as the leading improviser on her chosen instrument.
www.michiyoyagi.com

Drummer TAMAYA HONDA was born into Jazz Royalty. His father, the late Takehiro Honda, was one of Japan’s most popular jazz pianists; his mother Chico Honda is a jazz singer; and his uncles are veteran bebop drummer Fumio Watanabe and the internationally popular saxophonist Sadao Watanabe. Tamaya’s professional career began at the age of 13 when he sat in with his father’s fusion band Native Son before several thousand festivalgoers. After spending his teens playing with Native Son, Honda has worked with Fumio Karashima, Shunzō Ōno, Paul Jackson, Sadao Watanabe, Hi Tide Harris, Mal Waldron, Kazumi Watanabe, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Junior Mance, Kei Akagi, Masabumi Kikuchi, Peter Brötzmann and the ZEK Trio. Now Japan’s first-call jazz drummer, Honda also leads his own trio and quartet and performs with Michiyo Yagi as the duo Dōjō.
tamayahonda.blogspot.jp

Kukangendai

Formed in 2006 with Junya Noguchi on guitar and vocals, Keisuke Koyano on bass guitar, and Hideaki Yamada on drums. Performing as a three-piece, its tracks are made through a process of editing, replicating, and deliberate error. This music creates a sense of distortion and places a burden on the performers, leading to their characteristically stoic and humorous live shows. In recent years, the band has attempted to construct and implement a form of live concert in which they go back and forth between playing multiple simultaneous songs in parallel, but the flow of time as a whole manifests as a single unified rhythm. Moved to Kyoto in 2016, Kukangendai opened their studio/concert venue: SOTO.
kukangendai.com
Photo by Fumika Oshima

Yasunori Ikunishi

Photo by Yuriko Takagi