TOKYO BASED LABLE NOBLE TWO DAY FESTIVAL

Tokyo based lable Noble two day festival.
Friday 14th, Saturday 15th November 2008

Times : 8pm
Tickets : £6 / £10 two day pass http://www.wegottickets.com/event/37829

14th Fri Day 1 http://www.wegottickets.com/event/37827

Midori Hirano
Kenichi Iwasa + Special Guests from Acoustic Ladyland (Pete Wareham - Sax, Seb Rochford - Drums, Ruth Goller - Bass) - Improvisation set
Now We've Got Members

15th Sat Day 2 http://www.wegottickets.com/event/37828

Kazumasa Hashimoto
Kenichi Iwasa + Zongamin(Will Sweeney, Rob Green, Susumu Mukai, Leon Harris) + Dave Foldvari - Improvisation set
Now We've Got Members

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.


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.

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.

Midori Hirano

Began learning piano since childhood and majored in classical piano at
the university. Since 2003,she began composing piano based pieces using
computers and samplers.
In 2004, Released EP "Poet at the Piano" from Luxembourg label
soundzfromnowhere, and in conjunction performs live in Europe.
Continues to work mainly in production of re-mixing domestic and overseas
artists' work and participating in various label compilations.
In 2005 participated in Shugo Tokumaru's remix compliation "nprmx".
Releases her first album "LushRush" featuring guest musicians from
Noble label in September 2006. In a same year, participates in San Francisco based artist RF's remix compilation, and collaborates on one song on Parisian artist O.lamm's new album who continues to release from ActiveSuspension.
In February 2008 she was invited to a creative summit for up-and-coming people in the film industry, THE BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS provided by Berlin International Film Festival as a composer. In October 08 she will release her 2nd album "klo:yuri" from Noble label.