Hikashu in Fuji Rock Festival
Music | Chimera Ant | July 26, 2010 at 5:51 am
At first glance, the program of the festival this year, Fuji Rock has not been kind to the Japanese artists, presenting a more limited stage staircase profile as melodic punk rocker Ken Yokoyama and dance duo Boom Boom Satellites. The lack of a genuine threat to the dominance of those Oldies “was an indictment of the ambition of the younger generation musicians or music industry is probably more conservative.
On the other hand, what seems to happen in recent years is that a growing number of more interesting, experimental or just unusual local artists have crept up at the end of the holiday.
As young people do not necessarily mean energy and dynamism (Asian Kung Fu Generation are still in their early 30 years, but the sound of middle-aged because they are teenagers), age does not necessarily mean a difficult problem, a fact best wonderful examples of Hikashu.
“The good thing about aging,” said Koichi Makigami Hikashu singer that can do what I want. Five years ago or so we played with the Brazilian musician Hermeto Pascoal, who has over 70 years. I was called by the percussionist to play on stage with them, but while we were backstage, Hermeto came to us and said he will be solo piano. Then he finally mounted the stage and plays a Japanese tea, so when I saw this I thought of aging is a good thing. “
Founded in 1978 in the company of avant-garde theater RB Makigami Hikashu themselves caught in the revolution of postpunk and new wave that is about Japan, such as plastics and modern Hikashu have used this new pop experimentalism again his musical identity of Japan.
“I hate the kind of commercial music that was around at that time,” said Makigami “In Japan we do not really rock, but in the style of New Wave, I have found some things that can be done in the Japanese music. I adapt my style of Japanese traditional singing styles and vocal melodies, too. “
Hikashu first few albums were landmarks of the Japanese Avant-pop, combining catchy melodies, eccentric vocal gymnastics and often esoteric lyrical content. For many fans, songs like “20 Seiki no Ovar not” and “Pike” are iconic images of the time, and he admits Makigami sometimes feel restricted by his music enduring popularity of these materials, even to the point where they went on their way to subvert audience expectations.
“Back in the beginning I used to do such a thing,” he said. “We did one show where we put a table on stage and just sits there eating. It is difficult to do if this programming because they are the best musicians now.”
Play Fuji Rock was first found its challenges Hikashu Makigami concerned with the usual band concerts freewheeling approach may be unsuitable for the environment.
“Usually when we do a concert, no list,” said Makigami. “Just do the scene and start results. Someone just starting to do something and maybe he knows what he does, then the rest of us just follow. When I repeat, we play songs, so when we’re on stage we do not want to play them properly. This is our first time to play the Fuji Rock well, we may have to decide on four or five songs in advance and then go from there. “
Lately, however, Makigami tired of pop, before the “end” and believes that a more accurate description of the group is “rock pataphysics. “Based on the philosophical theories psuedoscientific first time by French playwright Alfred Jarry” Pataphysics is a term that contradicts easy explanation. Perhaps best described as proto-Dadaist, he was described by Jean Baudrillard as’ philosophy of gas … It can not be determined by its mandate so: it does not. “
To understand pataphysics Hikashu of folded, should try to live. The tendency to group improvisation, combined with Makigami theatricality led to his role as singer and conductor, draws public attention to the structure of music and the inclusion of errors and other unexpected events for the implementation throws open structure of the element of chance.
If this sounds incredibly pretentious, then, well, maybe, but it is also a huge amount of pleasure. Watch Hikashu Jazz Festival Art Sengaw Makigami which priests, their last run on the “Pike” was a happy experience, stretching, bending and twisting of the song with Makigami bouncing around the stage, scissor kicks, this Kung Fu movements and shadow boxing with his theremin .
Makigami generally have shorter descriptions, but not necessarily more illuminating of what their music is: “This is how we can create love through science.”
Hikashu Court of Orange play Fuji Rock Festival on July 30. For more information or visit www.makigami.com www.fujirockfestival.com
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