Sounds from the Japan Blues NYE bash

 

Japan Blues, New Year's Eve bash at Cafe OTO

Japan Blues

Shōgatsu / New Year's Eve Countdown

Howard Williams (Ethbo / Honest Jon's)
plays Japanese records, pentatonic groove, 1930s - 1970s
+
Live enka and minyou sets
from
Ichikawa Hibiki - Tsugaru shamisen, and Akari Mochizuki - voice
+
 Clive Bell - shakuhachi

Cafe OTO, Monday December 31
8.00 onwards.
 Advance tickets £12.00

Finally.

Last blast this year, at Cafe OTO

Japanica

Howard Williams (Ethbo / Honest Jon's)

plays Japanese records 

in a pentatonic groove

1930s - 1970s
+
Live enka and minyou with  

Ichikawa Hibiki - Tsugaru shamisen
and
 Akari Mochizuki - voice

Cafe OTO, Wednesday October 17
7.30 - 11.30, free.

Japanica back at Cafe OTO next week

Japanica

Howard Williams (Ethbo / Honest Jon's)

plays Japanese records, in a pentatonic groove, 

1930s - 1970s

+

Live minyou, 

with

Ichikawa Hibiki - Tsugaru shamisen

and

 Alika Mochida - voice

Cafe OTO, Thursday September 20

7.30 - 11.30, free.

Next Cafe OTO extravaganza

Japanica

Howard Williams (Ethbo / Honest Jon's)
plays Japanese records.

30s - 50s folkloric, jazz, kayoukyoku,
60s - 70s kayou beat.

+

Live enka (Japanese blues) singer

 Alika Mochida
 

Cafe OTO, Thursday August 16. 

7.30 - 11.30, free.

Kraftwerk, one for Bradley Wiggins.

Okabayashi Nobuyasu and Happy End

Babylon

The downside of record collecting.

Eboshi

More here

ATOMIC GUITAR Mark I & II by Fuyuki Yamakawa

More Enka in Ethiopia

Enka in Ethiopia

Tip of the eboshi to Tetsu.

Next Cafe OTO gig

Japanica

Howard Williams (Ethbo / Honest Jon's)
plays Japanese records, 1930s to 1970s.

30s - 50s jazz, folkloric and popular music, 
60s - 70s kayoukyoku and beat.

+
Tsugaru shamisen performance by Ichikawa Hibiki.

Cafe OTO, Thursday July 19. 7.30-11.30, free.

A rushed flyer for Cafe Oto gig next week.

30s - 50s Jazz, folkloric and popular music, 
60s - 70s Kayoukyoku and beat - all made in Japan.

Howard Williams (Ethbo / Honest Jons)

plays Japanese records

1930s to 1970s.

Also Tsugaru shamisen

performance by Ichikawa Hibiki.

Cafe Oto, Thursday June 7 2012.

Free

Meanwhile, at the Kansai Cycle Sports Centre..

Sendai 2012

Tokyo Sky Tree, then and now

Kuniyoshi Utagawa, 1797-1862

Currently the tallest tower in the world, opening May 22

Matsumoto Hiroko and Jean-Pierre Léaud

2.3 metric tonnes of vinyl

Don Martin

Yabusame Horseback Archery

What the world needs now, is..

Time Slip Glico Kyushoku

Toraku Rascals

One metric tonne of vinyl.

Plenty more where that came from.

Hibari Misora

Fuji Keiko

More essentials

Tokyo 1965

More Essentials

Consolation for 5 hours wait at Heathrow

Matsumoto Hiroko, Pathe newsreel here

Rice Pounding for Mochi