Masaaki Hirao Album launch party

Japan Blues


Album launch:
Masaaki Hirao - Nippon Rock'n'Roll

Live enka and minyou
Ichikawa Hibiki - Tsugaru shamisen 
+
Akari Mochizuki - voice
+
Howard Williams
 plays
 50s rock'n'roll to 80s disco/boogie - all Made In Japan

Saturday July 13

Cafe OTO
8.00-12.30

Free

Masaaki Hirao - Nippon Rock'n'Roll LP out now

Masaaki Hirao - Nippon Rock'n'Roll

CD available here, 10" LP due in two weeks.

Zewditou Yohannes, live at Cafe OTO

 

A Summer night of Ethiopian music

with

Zewditou Yohannes

+

Howard Williams

(Honest Jon's / Japan Blues)

playing Ethiopian records.

Cafe OTO, Friday June 28

Tickets: £7.00 adv, £8.00 on the door.

More essential movies at the NFT this month

Suzaki Paradise: Red Signal

 

Struggling against poverty in the sweltering heat, in post-occupation Japan.

Whistlestop Okinawa To Tokyo nano-mix

Roots of Japanese rock'n'roll

Man Who Causes a Storm

 

Yujiro Ishihara bites off more than he can chew

when he decides to make it as the top jazz drummer in Japan. 

Featuring a pre-rokabirii on-stage appearance by Masaaki Hirao.

Just one of the essential celluloid killers at the Nikkatsu season at the NFT