Thursday 8 August 2024

QUJAKU release new 250 limited 12 inch single, 'Ruiteggaakupanshi' on 20th September 2024 and confirm new UK tour


QUJAKU will release a brand new 250 limited single, ‘Ruiteggaakupanshi’, for the first time in 5 years from So I Buried Records on 20th September 2024 when their forthcoming UK tour starts. The new 12 inch single, which is a follow-up to acclaimed ‘In Neutral’ EP released in 2019, contains 3 new tracks, ‘Ruiteggaakupanshi’, ‘Keisha Shita Heya De’ and ‘Kodoku Na Yume, Ai No Hito’.

To celebrate the release of the single, the band will have a new UK tour starting from the release date, 20th September 2024, and visit 9 cities across the country including two festival appearances, Fat Out Fest and Glastonbury Psychfest, and two solo performances.


QUJAKU UK Tour 2024

September
20th (Fri) Manchester / Fat Out Fest (Shuya solo)
21st (Sat) Manchester / Fat Out Fest
22nd (Sun) Manchester / Fat Out Fest (Hiromi solo)
24th (Tue) Bristol / The Lanes
25th (Wed) Birmingham / The Castle And Falcon
26th (Thu) Nottingham / Saltbox
27th (Fri) London / Dingwalls (Supporting Melt Banana)
28th (Sat) Brighton / The Prince Albert
29th (Sun) Glastonbury / Glastonbury Psychfest
30th (Mon) Cardiff / The Moon
October
1st (Tue) Preston / The Ferret

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- Single Title
Ruiteggaakupanshi

- Release Date
20th September 2024

-Tracklist
1. Ruiteggaakupanshi
2. Keisha Shita Heya De
3. Kodoku Na Yume, Ai No Hito

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Saturday 31 October 2020

大石裕美デビューソロEPリリースに伴い、 PCゲームアートとコラボ、及びレコ発イベント決定


大石裕美のデビューソロEP、「葡萄と山吹」リリースに伴い、マルチメディアアーティストのヒデキ カンノが自身で開発・作成したPCゲームアート、「Shore」とコラボレーション、また、EPの発売日である12月5日(土)に東京都上野にあるアートギャラリー、「みんなのギャラリー」にて10人限定のレコ発イベントを行います。

「Shore」とは「目的のないゲーム」がコンセプトとなっており、このゲームには文字通りゴールが無く、プレイヤーは舞台となっているある南の島を好きなように歩き回ります。ゲーム内の時間は現実世界とリンクしており、昼にプレイすればゲーム内も昼、夜にプレイすればゲーム内も夜に設定されております。

プレイヤーがゲーム内で宿泊しているホテル内の一角にはバーがあり、そのバー内のステージでポリゴン化した大石裕美がEPに収録されている楽曲を11月1日(日)から1週間毎に1曲ずつ指定された時間帯に演奏し、プレミア公開していきます。

11月1日(日)~11月7日(土)20:00~21:00
「葡萄と山吹」

11月8日(日)~11月14日(土)20:00~21:00
「梅の文」

11月15日(日)~11月21日(土)20:00~21:00
「母なる大地へ」

11月22日(日)~11月28日(土)20:00~21:00
「花の香りはプルメリア」

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「葡萄と山吹」予約ページ

「Shore」紹介動画

「Shore」ダウンロードリンク

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4曲目の公開1週間後、EPの発売日でもある12月5日(土)に東京都上野にあるアートギャラリー、「みんなのギャラリー」にて10人限定のレコ発イベントを行います。

so i buried presents
Hiromi Oishi EP “Budou To Yamabuki” Launch Party

- 出演アーティスト
大石裕美

- 会場
みんなのギャラリー
〒110-0015 東京都台東区東上野4-14-3 2F

- 開催日時
12月5日(土)19:30 オープン / 20:00 スタート

- 料金
3,000円

- 予約方法
予約メールアドレスのsoiburied at gmail dot comまで以下の情報を入れたメールを送信
「件名: レコ発イベント予約」
「本文: 名前、電話番号、予約希望人数」

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ヒデキ カンノ
私は共存、進化、利他主義に魅了されています。 私の作品は、限られたスペースとリソースを平和に共有している(擬似)生命の状態を探求しています。 私のアートワークの基礎は、調査や観察などの科学的手法に基づいています。 これらの方法は私の理論をサポートし、私のアートワークを架空の状態から現実の状態に移行させることができます。 電子工学やモーター制御、コンピュータープログラミングなどのテクノロジーを使用して、インタラクティブマルチメディアインストールで共存および進化する環境を再現します。

Collaboration with PC game art and EP launch party in Tokyo confirmed to celebrate release of Hiromi Oishi’s debut solo EP


To celebrate the release of “Budou To Yamabuki”, the debut solo EP by Hiromi Oishi, a collaboration with a PC game art called “Shore” developed and created by a Japanese media artist, Hideki Kanno, and a super-limited EP launch party at Minnano Gallery in Tokyo on 5th December 2020 have been confirmed.

The concept of “Shore” is “a game without any purposes”. As the concept says, there are not any goals in the game and the player walks around a tropical island as he/she likes. The time in the game links to the time in the real world, if the user plays it in the daytime, it is in the daytime in the game too, and if the user plays it in the nighttime, it is in the nighttime in the game too.

There is a bar in the hotel where the player is staying in the game and polygonised Hiromi Oishi will play the songs in the EP on the stage in the bar, premiering one song every week from 1st November 2020.

1st–7th November 11.00–12.00 GMT 
“Budou To Yamabuki”

8th–14th November 11.00–12.00 GMT 
“Ume No Fumi”

15th–21st November 11.00–12.00 GMT 
“To Mother Earth”

22nd–28th November 11.00–12.00 GMT 
“Hana No Kaori Wa Plumeria”

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The EP launch party will be held at Minnano Gallery in Tokyo on 5th December, the day when the EP gets released. The party is super-limited and only 10 people can be invited.

so i buried presents
Hiromi Oishi EP “Budou To Yamabuki” Launch Party

- Artist
Hiromi Oishi

- Venue
Minnano Gallery
2F 4-14-3 Higashi Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-0015, Japan

- Date
5th December 19.30 open / 20.00 start

- Price
3,000 JPY

- To book tickets
Send an email containing the following information to
soiburied at gmail dot com
“Title: EP launch party booking”
“Body: name, phone number, number of people”

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Hideki Kanno
I am fascinated by coexistence, evolution and altruism. My artwork explores the conditions of living things that share limited space and resources in a peaceful way. The foundation of my artwork is build on scientific methods like investigation and observation. Those methods support my theories about life, enabling my artwork to shift from an imaginary state to a state of reality. I recreate coexisting and evolving environments in interactive multimedia installations, using technologies, such as electronic and motor engineering and computer programming.

Thursday 1 October 2020

Hiromi Oishi releases her debut solo 200 limited edition EP, “Budou To Yamabuki”, on 5th December 2020


Hiromi Oishi, the bassist of a Hamamatsu-based Japanese psychedelic band, QUJAKU, will release her debut solo 200 limited EP, “Budou To Yamabuki”, from So I Buried Records on 5th December 2020. She has played the piano since she was 5 years old and all the track in the 10 inch EP, which contains 2 tracks in each side, are her solo piano songs.

The heart moves, the finger reacts, the sound is created.
The grass grows, the beast eats.
Thank you and good-bye, the ordinary.

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- EP Title
Budou To Yamabuki

- Release Date
5th December 2020

-Tracklist
1. Budou To Yamabuki
2. Ume No Fumi
3. To Mother Earth
4. Hana No Kaori Wa Plumeria

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You can preorder the EP from

Thursday 9 April 2020

AKATOMBO releases 200 limited edition album, “Discordia 2003-2020”, on 25th May


AKATOMBO, a musical project by Paul T. Kirk, a Japan-based Scottish musician/ producer/ film-maker/ photographer, will release a brand new 200 limited album, “Discordia 2003-2020”, from So I Buried Records on 25th May 2020. The album contains 15 tracks selected from all his musical works, including an unreleased track, “Oblique & Fearless”. 

This is a recording of what a man has felt for 18 years, a collection of sounds of anger, reality and hope.

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- Album Title
Discordia: 2003-2020

- Release Date
25th May 2020

- Tracklist
1. Click/Bate
2. Kleptocrat
3. A Prior Disengagement
4. Precariat
5. Debug. Injector
6. Oblique & Fearless
7. SSRI
8. Humid
9. Snark Und Troll
10. Overheat
11. Ponderlust
12. S'avant Guard
13. Portable Pariah
14. Cold Call
15. Tensile Strength

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AKATOMBO is a musical project by Paul T. Kirk, a Japan-based Scottish musician/ producer/ film-maker/ photographer. The project based around enticingly seductive, electronically-manipulated beats intercut with samples, urban field recordings, etc., - all thrown in to a heady stew along with shortwave radio transmissions and unsettling analogue effects, to create dystopian, dystonic, Ballardian, audio adventures. He’s released five recordings and three collaborative recordings so far and has a variety of fans including the members of Wire, the ex-member of Les Rallizes Denudes and Katsuhiro Otomo, the director of AKIRA.

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Monday 4 November 2019

OUTLANDS PRESENTS: ENSÕ SONE - IMPATV & QUJAKU With special guests group A (presenting a new AV set)

 

OUTLANDS PRESENTS: ENSÕ SONE - IMPATV & QUJAKU
With special guests group A (presenting a new AV set)

WATCH IMPATV’S MUSIC VIDEO FOR NEW QUJAKU SONG “IN NEUTRAL

OUTLANDS experimental music touring network present an original audio-visual collaboration between Japanese psych band Qujaku and UK visual artists IMPATV.

Developed during a residency in Japan in June 2019, this new production explores ideas of duality.  Sound triggers light that in turn creates form via an amalgam of heavy, rhythmic ambience combined with visual projections, lighting and stage design.  The resulting union will unfurl as an expansive spectacle to stimulate the senses.

Special guests group A open each night of the tour with a spectacular new AV set.



Ensō - a circular symbol hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create.

Sone - a unit of loudness; how loud a sound is perceived.

Ensō Sone expresses a freedom to create loudness, which marks the starting point for this exciting new collaboration. Further ideas from Japanese Zen practice; of oneness, natural opposites and equilibrium, the spirit of harmonious cooperation, the visible and the invisible, absolute fullness in emptiness, simplicity, completeness, and endlessness are explored.

The tour includes special guests electronic, industrial act group A (now the solo project of Tommi Tokyo) who in turn collaborate with Berlin based visual artist DEAD SLOW AHEAD on a new multi-dimensional video universe, opening the gate to the inside-self, mixing slow ethereal abstract sounds with mind-shattering stroboscopic video pulsations, designed to challenge the observers’ expectations of AV work.

As with all OUTLANDS tours, there will be an accompanying workshop to shine a light on the artistic processes behind the production. IMPATV will host an experimental video workshop prior to the ENSÕ SONE shows, exploring some of the techniques they use to create their videos and visual work, using a variety of new and outdated technologies. Participants will have their own experimental video work to take away with them. For more info.

OUTLANDS TOUR #6 DATES:
Wed 6th Nov - Birmingham - Hare & Hounds
Thu 7th Nov - Milton Keynes Gallery
Fri 8th Nov - London - Corsica Studios
Sat 9th Nov - Cambridge Junction
Sun 10th Nov - Bexhill - De La Warr Pavilion
Mon 11th Nov - Bristol - Cube Cinema
Tue 12th Nov - Plymouth - KARST
Wed 13th Nov - Manchester - Fairfield Social Club
Thu 14th Nov - Bradford - Fuse

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

(photo credit Hajime Kato, hi res version available here)

QUJAKU
Formed in 2013, QUJAKU are a Japanese heavy psychedelic rock band based in Shizuoka. Their dark, heavy psychedelia is replete with rich distortion and feedback creating a unique decadent ambience. The apocalyptic sound they muster fuels an urge to release from the everyday to discover an ephemeral beauty behind the fierceness. The delicate yet strong leading voice, filled with destructive guitar, repetitive rhythmic percussion, and deep, bellowing bass combine to create Qujaku's unique sound atmosphere to preoccupy the mind and enhance the experience.


IMPATV
IMPATV is a collaborative video and stage production project from UK artists Isadora Darke and Jamie Robinson. Using new digital technologies and live mixing methods combined with costumes and stage design they produce immersive installations, music videos, live streaming, and art and music productions across the realms of DIY, experimental and underground culture.


(Photo by Dead Slow Ahead, high-res available here)

GROUP A - DEAD SLOW AHEAD
group A present a mix of synth heavy minimal wave, avant noise, striking visuals and performance art that carries the very breath of early industrial pioneers such as Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire. Their early shows came as a shock to most spectators, non-stop waves of experimental noise, intensely emotional poetry readings and nude live-paintings. As the violinist Sayaka goes on a long hiatus, group A is evolving, currently the solo project of Tommi Tokyo, she continues to collaborate with Berlin based visual artist DEAD SLOW AHEAD for live A/V performances. The work of DEAD SLOW AHEAD centres around erratic geometry, slow strobe destruction, and negation of the visual comfort zone.



QUOTES:

“I am extremely excited to be commissioning this project and touring it around the Outlands network. The Japan & UK residencies allowed for a deep creative partnership between Qujaku & IMPATV to be established and enabled this ambitious AV touring production to be delivered. During our time in Japan, Fat Out connected with independent venues, art spaces, and interesting performances spaces - seeking out those that championed experimental and alternative music. We have established partnerships with these spaces and the people who run them, and aim to work together to set up opportunities for artists and build further partnerships between the UK and Japan in the future.”  - Emma Thompson, Fat Out

“We’re delighted to be a part of the project. We’ve never had tours in collaboration with visual artists, it’s always exciting to do new things. The UK is one of the countries we enjoy playing most and people are always kind to us. We really look forward to playing in the country, working with people from a different culture and creating moments for people to enjoy themselves.” - QUJAKU

“We first saw Qujaku live in 2016 and felt a sense of mysticism and otherworldliness through the intense stomping rhythm and eerie vocals. They have a completely different sound to any UK bands we know of and we’re excited to see how this will inform the imagery of the visuals we will create. During our trip to Japan we immersed ourselves in their culture, values, craft and technology which massively inspired the visual direction of this project.” - IMPATV

This performance is an original commission by OUTLANDS, produced by Fat Out, 2019.
Supported by Arts Council England, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Sasakawa Foundation, Daiwa Foundation.



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