Don't think about it, the Togawa Jun special tickets at the Shenzhen B10 scene on May 19 have long been sold out, and the audience in Shenzhen has a good eye.
As part of the 5th Tomorrow Music Festival (5.17-5.20) hosted by the Oct Shenzhen Creative Culture Park, the legendary Jun Togawa enjoyed a night. For the remaining three days, the avant-garde rock band GONG, Henan pendant master Guo Yongzhang, the five-member improvisational orchestra "Doctor Tea", the German kimchi rock duo Krautwerk, the Congolese fantasy electric thumb group Konono N°1 and the experimental electronic musician Takayoshi Aoki took turns one night.
Jun Togawa. Photo by Keita Ikeda
Last year, Jun Togawa, 56, co-released a 35th anniversary album with rock band Vampillia, which was too old to sound. The cover uses photos of her childhood, and in 2006, Jun Togawa was once blocked from speaking out due to a waist injury, not to mention sports, and the impression of an eternal girl became very fat.
As Japan's first avant-garde female singer, Jun Togawa was named a "god" for thirty years in the eyes of domestic music fans. In Japan, she has lived from the "Togawa Jun boom" in the early 1980s to a benchmark, as long as she is an avant-garde female singer in Japan, she must pass through the stage of comparison with her after she appears. From the nearest water day, as far as the name of the year, Lin Zhen, it is better. However, this benchmark has gradually been forgotten in Japan. The old aunt, who is neither beautiful nor young, and who sings in the crazy and beautiful personality of the sick lolita, is not many fans who can swallow her in Japan. Jun Togawa? Previously red, super crazy and arrogant singer/actor?
She single-handedly strings together Shiina Hayashibana, Tokyo Incident, Ryuichi Sakamoto, P-MODEL, Mind Police, Haruto Hosono, Phew, X-JAPAN, Ryohide Otomo, Koji Ueno, Shin Hirazawa, Tomita, Imatoshi, Nogisaka 46, Vampillia, Relativity Theory, Uesaka Violet, AKB48, Mizushiro Nikko, Yulu Mei Lumeng, TAMORI... The name of the singer, something that everyone is afraid to avoid.
The overly innocent, overly heart-wrenching voice comes directly from the sharp part of her own flesh. Jun Togawa, who is old, must not be able to interpret these personalities to the extreme as he did when he was young.
First the voice was muted, unable to bring about the same intense tremors as when he was younger. In an interview with Vice last year, she herself said: "Even if you sing the same song, the so-called character characteristics will be like others say, there will be a sense of deterioration, just like the feeling that the previous synthesizer will suddenly sing - when I want to sing like Vocaloid, add some 'human' mentality, and sing very clean." 」 ”
But at least, now Togawa Jun doesn't have to fight the terrible vortex of "Togawa Pure Boom" as much as he did when he was red. As long as she keeps a lot of desire and curiosity and does not grow old, and her good taste does not fall, she will still be very good-looking.
Dr. Tea (The tea ceremony master in the picture is Lao Gu). Photo by Fu Xiuliang
The opening band "Doctor Tea" members: Xiao he, Yan Jun, Li Daixuan, Ximi, Wu Na, is the product of musicians and tea people gathering at a music festival in Bern, Switzerland in 2010. The initiators are Yan Jun, who used to write music reviews and now plays experimental music, in charge of the electronic part; Xiaohe still plays his beloved Ruan, using effects and vocals; Wu Na Guqin; Li Daiji pipa, violin and vocals; AndKimi is in charge of the real tea ceremony part, replacing the position of the band's founding member and his teacher Lao Gu. So on the stage, in addition to the electronic noise of the musical vocals, there will also be the sound of tea.
"Whatever tea you drink, the music is what it looks like." (Yan Jun) can't expect it, just stay on the spot.
Guo Yongzhang
Guo Yongzhang, the "blind man of Guo" who sang Henan's pendant, was very famous in the four provinces of Sulu, Yuwan and Anhui. The movie "Favorite" made him famous nationwide, playing the role of "Grandpa Ersao", who sang two songs of "Luo Cheng's Calculation" and "Bragging", singing out the souls of the world's tragedies and joys. Zuo Xiaozu, who made the original sound of "Favorite", also sang "Bragging", and also invited Guo Yongzhang to sing the song "Every Year there is a March 3" in "You Know the Other Side is on That Side" (2011).
Unlike other pendant artists, Guo Yongzhang sang by himself, and one person played several roles. His pendant belongs to the East Road Pendant, and in the Book of Pendants, he incorporates characteristic singing voices such as Shandong Zizi and Shandong Jujube Zi, and sings more lyrics to persuade poets to respect the elderly and do good deeds.
It is a pity that old Guo is old and has no successors, his scene is very precious, and it is certainly good-looking.
Krautwerk
The German duo Krautwerk plays "kimchi rock", and germany's most authoritative Krautrock.com website defines it as Krautrock, a musical style born in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Use electric guitars, early synthesizers, and pre-recorded tape recordings to create music or create some kind of sound effect. The music is a blend of electronic, experimental, psychedelic rock and emerging avant-garde music.
The group is composed of two "kimchi rock" elders, Harald Grosskopf and Eberhard Kranemann. Harald has worked with many legendary bands, with notable bands and artists including Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra Tempel and others. As one of the founders of Neu! and Pissoff, Eberhard constantly challenges the traditional boundaries between art, sound and performance through countless radical experiments in multimedia productions.
Konono N°1
Congolese magic thumb band Konono N°1 is popular in the West because their music sounds regardless of borders and races, and there is no risk of obsolescence. The rhythm and metal scraping sound of percussion instruments is similar to that of punk. They've toured with The Ex, Tortoise, recorded with Björk, and the New York Times has even compared them to legendary musicians like Lee Perry, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, and more. In the early years, Mingiedi Mawangu, the founder of Konono N°1, made his own microphones from scrap and car parts and powered on the thumb piano, creating an unprecedented sound in the spirit of DIY. Their music never wanted to be "avant-garde", not to be exactly in line with the essence of "avant-garde", "experimental" and "electronic".
The band's founder, Mawangu, died in 2015, and by this time all of the band's founding members have passed away. But their new 2016 album Konono N°1 Meets Batida is still the same as before, but it was the source of 1966.
GONG
The last day finale of the edgy rock band GONG also died in 2015 with founding member Daevid Allen, and another founding member, Gilli Smyth, who died the following year. In 2016, the band did as he wished for a photo called Rejoice! I'm Dead! " album, continue to travel through space.
It's hard to describe the band, cosmic jumping, naïve, ghostly, saxophone flying, and their Banana Moon was listed as one of the 20 favorite albums by legendary British musician David Bowie.
Takayoshi Aoki
Takayoshi Aoki, an outstanding representative of the avant-garde electronics Mesozoic Generation, will impact your brain with layers of experimental abstract, concise and powerful electronic music. He has a masterful grasp of sound, and his crisp and crisp dance floor beats are extremely compatible. He was once favored by the famous musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and published an album under his label Commons.
In addition to the performance unit, there are lectures and screenings. On the 19th, Jay Hinman, the podcast director of American Pop Music Magazine, will tell you about the history of music production and distribution, and trace its cultural roots. On the 20th, there was also a documentary by the legendary British girl band The Silts, "Deaf and Deaf: British Female Punk Pioneer The Silts".