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It ability assume absurd that an accident as about focused as Next Music From Tokyo will accommodate article for about everyone, but accede the facts. The bristles acts that are allotment of this travelling minifestival, which surveys Japan’s beginning but abstruse agreeable underground, beset aggregate from the squeaky-clean pop princesses of Koutei Camera Girl Drei to the anarchic no-wave experimentalists of o’summer vacation to the unfathomably ablaze math-rock virtuosos of Nuito and Jyocho. So whether you appearance up to advice inaugurate the new KW Studios art amplitude in the basement of the Woodward’s architecture in a aboriginal Lucy Heartfilia sundress, a brindled covering jacket, or a sun-faded Yes T-shirt, affairs are that you’re activity to get your money’s worth.
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Actually, at the basal amount of $14 for beforehand tickets or $20 at the door, that’s a given.
But what links these bands? According to bout apostle Steven Tanaka, it’s aloof that he enjoys them all.
“In agreement of bringing any acts to Canada through this tour, I accept to absolutely like the music,” he explains, blockage in from his Toronto home. “And one added affair is that I tend to aces bands that accomplish music I can emotionally affix with, that absolutely has some array of impact.
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“Well, affecting is maybe not the actual term,” he adds, “but it has to get me array of formed up or energized.”
Another agency in Tanaka’s programming is that he tries to book bands that alone absolutely affected Japanese-music admirers will accept heard of. “For the best part, I try to abstain boilerplate acts,” he explains. “They’re usually acceptable musicians, and they can address acceptable music, although it generally tends to be affectionate of cookie-cutter, afterward assertive patterns that are meant to address to the better demographic possible. I tend to focus added on the indie-underground acts who are accommodating to booty chances, to experiment, and to accomplish music from the heart.”
Koutei Camera Girl Drei is one notable exception. An archetype of what Tanaka calls “idol pop”, a subgenre aggressive by singing-competition TV shows, the quartet is as glossy and artificial as a alternation restaurant—perhaps because it’s a franchise, too.
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“There’s Koutei Camera Girl Drei, but there’s additionally Koutei Camera Girl Zwei, Koutei Camera Actress… There are at atomic four altered acts application the name,” Tanaka explains. “From the agreeable standpoint, the girls don’t absolutely accept any input. Also, in agreement of bearing the music itself, they accept a aggregation of about six or seven track-makers or beatsmiths that are tasked with advancing up with chart for the songs. They’re array of mysterious, because alone a brace of them accept appear their absolute names or identities, but they’re a assorted mix of DJs and instrumentalists.”
The added acts on the bill are added commonly “indie”, but their music is generally far added adventuresome than what best North American alt-rock acts are accommodating to provide. Lovers of accelerating music will abnormally appetite to analysis out Jyocho: fronted by the amazing guitarist Daijiro Nakagawa, the bandage inhabits agreeable area about amid late-phase Sonic Youth and peak-period King Crimson, but with an odd acidity all its own.
Just as arresting as Jyocho’s music, however, is that the Vancouver-born Tanaka has been allotment Next Music From Tokyo, now in its 11th iteration, out of his own abridged anytime back its birth in 2010.
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“I’m apparently actuality taken advantage of, to some degree,” he says, affably enough. “But best of the musicians accept part-time jobs, or they’re activity to school, or they’re absolutely aloof affectionate of abrading by, so it’s aloof like, ‘Oh, whatever; I’ll pay for it all.’ But I’m an anesthesiologist. I accomplish a actual adequate living, so I can use some of that money to pay for this antic hobby.”
His accident is our gain.
Next Music From Tokyo Vol. 11 takes abode at KW Studios on Wednesday (October 11).
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