TOKYO BASED LABLE NOBLE TWO DAY FESTIVAL - DAY 2

Event information

Tokyo based lable Noble 2 day festival.

Curated Yuhi Nakano

15th Sat Day 2

Kazumasa Hashimoto
Kenichi Iwasa + Special Guest
Now We've Got Members

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Kazumasa Hashimoto

Composer / pianist born in Tokyo.

Learning piano at a young age, Kazumasa Hashimoto quickly took an interest in composing rather than playing standard classical pieces. At the same time also took an interest in making music with computers. Then he graduated from a College of Music in Tokyo with a major in song writing. Releasing 3 albums worldwide to great critical acclaim, his work has been introduced in many different avenues, most notably receiving the 5 star
award from Germany's DE:BUG magazine and having his work used on a BBC TV show. He has also collaborated with other like minded artists such as world's end girlfriend and Shione Yukawa. Further he has expanded his work to include the production of other artists. On the live end, he took part in Ryuichi Sakamoto's "code" and shared the bill with veterans such as SketchShow in October 03. In April 05 he successfully completed a Pan Asia tour of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau and in 2007 he took part in the largest European electronic music festival hosted in Barcelona, Sonar. In December 07 he released his 4th album "Euphoriam" under Noble label. He has just composed music for Kiyoshi Kurosawa's forthcoming movie,TOKYO SONATA was awarded the Jury Prize in the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

http://www.myspace.com/kazumasahashimoto

Now We've Got Members

In the beginning Now We've got Members didn't have any members at all. Today the band revolves around a core of eight people, and in some live situations they´re augmented by additional musicians, forming an ensemble of as many as fifteen members. The music can be described as a mixture of musical styles from near and distant hemispheres, all relative to which hemisphere the listener might be situated. The band has been known to incorporate folk music from the balkans, arabian funk and transcendental jams into their complex yet hummable
pop tunes. Add to this elements of progressive rock (without the rock), disco (without the mirrorballs) and free jazz (without the jazz), and you have an idea of what Now We've got Members sounds like.

www.myspace.com/nowwevegotmembers

Kenichi Iwasa

Multi instrumentalist and founding member of the Japanese avant-rock quartet Miso-Soup. Kenichi has worked with Damo Suzuki (Can), Chrome Hoof and Seb Rochford.