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The
Onion Cellar presents...
ZENI GEVA
KK NULL
RUINS ALONE
COCC
STRIPED COBRA
28/7/2013 - 19:30
Darts Club – 224A Pasteur - HCMC
TICKETS:
Presale: 150K VND
(available NOW from DARTS CLUB – open everyday from 6PM ‘til late)
Doors: 200K VND
*All ticket purchases
include 1 FREE DRINK at the show
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ZENI GEVA (JAPAN)
Before it became hip and trendy to like bands from Japan there were a handful
of artists from this country pushing the sonic envelope, de-constructing and
then re-building ‘music’ and were, in general, part of a new vanguard of noise
makers. One such pioneering group of innovators is ZENI GEVA (roughly translated as ‘someone who would do anything to
get money’), whose current line-up includes Kazuyuki Kishino (guitars, vocals,
Kaoss-pad) – one of Japan’s most well-known ‘noise terrorists’ alongside
Merzbow and Keiji Haino; and Tatsuya Yoshida (drums, Kaoss-pad) – ‘master
drummer of the Japanese underground’.
One of Japan's more eccentric and intriguing extreme music exports ever since
the late '80s and the '90s, self-professed progressive hardcore duo ZENI GEVA fuses elements of death
metal, hardcore, industrial music, noise rock, progressive rock and avant-garde
music, gaining no small underground recognition in the process while getting
described as ‘Motorhead meets King Crimson’ and recording/collaborating with
the legendary studio engineer Steve Albini (who has been producing records for
all sorts of luminaries of alternative music: Nirvana, Pixies, MONO, Neurosis,
Slint, Shannon Wright, Melt-Banana, etc).
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KK NULL (JAPAN)
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KK NULL (real name : Kazuyuki
Kishino) is one of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a larger
context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early
80′s.
In 1981 KK NULL studied at Butoh
dancer Min Tanaka’s ‘Mai-Juku’ workshop and started his career by performing
guitar improvisations in the clubs of Tokyo. He continued by collaborating with
Merzbow for two years, and joining the band YBO2 (with Masashi Kitamura, chief
editer of Fool’s Mate magazine and Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer of RUINS) and various other projects of
the underground scene.
In the early 90′s he gained world-wide recognition as the mastermind, guitarist
and singer of the progressive hardcore band ZENI GEVA.
After playing the guitar as his main instrument for nearly thirty years, KK NULL has gradually moved towards a
more electronic approach. He has concentrated his efforts on exploring the
outer territories of electronica, creating intense clashing waves of noise,
structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythms, scattered pitch
sculptures (for installations), droning isolationist material which could be
described as ‘cosmic noise maximal/minimalism’.
http://www.kknull.com/
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RUINS ALONE (JAPAN)
A one-man performance that has to be seen to be believed.
Without a doubt, Tatsuya Yoshida has been one of the most important drummers of
the Japanese music scene since the final decades of the 20th century, having
spearheaded at least a half dozen of that country's most important groups.
Perhaps best-known among these would be RUINS: this group's unique basic
instrumentation of drums and bass was no less than a palace revolt against the
established role of the rhythm section.
RUINS plays a unique form of manic
and twisted progressive rock. Bandleader/drummer/singer Yoshida credits such
diverse influences as progressive rock stalwarts Magma, Pink Floyd, Gong, King
Crimson, Yes, classical composers like Chopin, and traditional throat singing
from Tuva. Though these influences often come through in the RUINS sound, there
is no mistaking RUINS for anyone
else. Many RUINS compositions employ
odd time signatures, sudden tempo changes, and passages of heavily processed
noise. Vocals are meant to be nonsensical (and that's how they sound) and are
usually improvised, as are portions of the songs. The overall sound is chaotic
yet precise, noisy yet harmonious, catchy yet repelling, frenetic yet
disciplined.
After the departure of fourth bassist Hisashi Sasaki, Tatsuya Yoshida forged on
with RUINS as a solo act, performing
live as RUINS ALONE and releasing
the album Alone in 2011. RUINS ALONE
has no bassist - Yoshida samples and synthesises sounds to accompany his
ballistic drumming and singing, using elements of everything from sheer noise
to disco and pop.
http://www.skingraftrecords.com/bandhtmlpages/ruinspg.html
http://youtu.be/KlJZeJqwisg
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COCC (VIETNAM)
COCC is a Saigon-based
indie/psych-rock trio whose amazing debut album “6 Giờ” (2011) deserves much
much more recognition. Here is what they have to say about themselves:
“Phuc started a band with his friends to play cover tunes from Smashing
Pumpkins, Tool, Beatles, and whatever they can do to satisfy his thirst for
Rock ‘n’ Roll. Called themselves "Hero in Danger", how arrogant?
Everyone except for Phuc, all left to better greener grass, Phuc got pissed and
wrote a bunch of original songs. Cuong and Quoc somehow walked into a wrong
meeting and got 'con' into the band playing bass and drum for Phuc. They got
pissed and called the band ‘COCC’,
how appropriate? Anyway, with no money, they decided to record their songs with
a laptop and used the toilet as a recording studio. To make the short story
shorter, COCC has a new CD out and
playing live shows around Saigon, Vietnam. Ok support your local Vietnamese
band.”
www.facebook.com/pages/CoCC-band/203364483036181?
http://youtu.be/XrCmOdrrGtg
http://youtu.be/Df7mIR2gdOk
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STRIPED COBRA (JAPAN)
A Japanese band in modern day Saigon. 5 musicians – 3 males, 2 females.
Instruments: guitar,
saxophone, cello,
keyboard/vocals, drums. Influences: the guitar player’s main influences are
hardcore punk and ska hardcore, the saxophonist’s: swing jazz, the cellist’s:
the Japanese singer-songwriter KAN, the keyboardist/singer’s: anarcho punk and
a legion of riff-oriented bands – Captain Beyond, The Stooges, Merciful Fate,
the drummer’s: all jazz giants, also – John Cage.
What could possibly be the end result of such meeting of minds and musical
influences and instruments? We don’t really know – this is going to be the
debut performance of this (super)group consisting of regular figures in the
Japanese music scene in Saigon. One thing for sure, whether playing free jazz
in the clubs of Koenji or unleashing endless sonic attacks of weird-out
psychedelic dubstep-influenced noises at Café Oto and other venues across east
London, or, indeed, gradually building up a whole scene of music in Saigon
(whose focal point is none other than the superb Darts Club) - you could always
count on Japanese musicians everywhere and anywhere for eye-opening surprises
and shocks (after all, just look at the headliners of this show). In STRIPED COBRA’s own words: “We don’t
play relaxing music”.
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And for those in Hanoi....
