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Tzadik Label Music Series: New Voices from Japan - Haino Keiji, Makigami Koichi and Yamataka Eye
Performing Arts Spring 2006
Friday & Saturday, May 12 & 13
7:30 pm
Curated by John Zorn. Presented in association with Tzadik.
An unprecedented meeting of avant-garde masters of experimental music, these two evenings of extreme vocalist-musicians launch Japan Society’s new music series collaboration with
Tzadik, the nonprofit record label founded in 1995 by
John Zorn. Over two concerts, a surprising combination of solos, duos and trios produces an unpredicatable kaleidoscope of sounds and screeches, featuring the boldest vocal works in Japan’s new music scene: vocalist-composer, theremin-player and pioneer in avant-noise-music
Makigami Koichi, known for leading the longest-running underground band Hikashu; disturbing iconoclast
Yamataka Eye, who first garnered public attention with his violent noise group Hanatarash and later as the front man vocalist for the Boredoms; and underground noise guitar-hero
Haino Keiji, Japanese wizard and true star. This dynamic meeting features U.S.-based guests voice-master and leader of Fantomas
Mike Patton; American post-classical composer
Jim O’Rourke; breath-taking laptop pioneer
Mori Ikue; and radical composer-saxophonist
John Zorn himself.
Tickets: $30/$25 Japan Society members.
2-day pass: $46/$38 Japan Society members. Please call (212) 715-1258 to purchase the pass.