Chocolate Chiwawa x SONORE
We’ve just opened a SONORE corner in an awesome but tiny, select Tokyo (Koenji) fashion outlet called Chocolate Chiwawa. Sumakyu, the hugely talented and slightly warped Chocolate Chiwawa owner, has some really unique pieces on sale. From crafts and casual girl outfits to full-power drag queen extravaganza, Chocolate Chiwawa is also one of Tokyo’s 8bit music hubs. We at SONORE are proud (to say the least!), to be able to beam ourselves down at last in one of Koenji’s most mysterious and appealing clothes shops: Chocolate Chiwawa! (Map) http://yaplog.jp/choco-chiwawa/
SONORE 10-Year Anniversary in Osaka!
After the successful “LEX Sneak Preview” party, held in Tokyo on October 10th, we’re now going to Osaka to celebrate the SONORE 10-Year Anniversary in collaboration with the Osaka European Film Festival and Club Noon. On Sunday 23rd of November, we’ll be getting together with a selection of Kansai artists to be envied the world over! They include: Bebedelbanco, Bakirinosu, Oorutaichi, Craftwife, Baiyon, DODDODO, Maruosa and Volzoy, plus DJ *es (from Satanicpornocultshop) and VJs Shinsuke Yamaji (Catchpulse) + Kohji Kimura and Oshiri Sapphire! A line-up blazing a trail across ethnic murmur and hip hop and devastating electronica. http://www.noon-web.com/
applehead - ILCQ
After the release of Akane Hosaka’s debut album, Niko Niko Denki Muzic, on SONORE last June, now comes the brand new first album from Tokyo electro-fur trio applehead!! Titled ILCQ (I Love Chikyu), it contains 11 tracks of crispy electro pop that fall somewhere between techno and new wave (Devo, YMO). Mayutan is an extra-terrestrial android landed on earth by some curious coincidence. She met Fredy and Candy at the local R40 convenience store and together they started applehead. Based near Akihabara, applehead are part of the new techno pop movement currently taking over the Tokyo scene. http://www.myspace.com/aph4649
DODDODO - European tour 2008
SONORE would like to introduce DODDODO’s European tour. DODDODO is a young artist from Osaka who raps (in Japanese) while triggering samples of heavy break beat loops and Casio synths. She will play at the Alternativa Festival in Prague together with Akane Hosaka on November 27th, and then will tour Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and the UK. DODDODO live comes with a health warning; she’s surprisingly explosive. The tour schedule is available here. DODDODO will also be appearing next year at the LEX 2009 festival in Nîmes (France). http://sonore.ning.com/profiles/blogs/doddodo-european-tour-2008
Project OH!YAMA
Project OH!YAMA is a contemporary dance company to fall head over heels with. 5 determined young women whose approach to dance contrasts vividly with today’s Tokyo scene. An indefinable charm combining group enthusiasm and sparkling choreographies. Project OH!YAMA will premiere their new piece on the 23rd and 24th of November in Kagurazaka Session House in Tokyo. We here at SONORE are ecstatic because Satoru Wono has agreed to write a new score especially for Project OH!YAMA! We’re pretty damn impatient to check it out! http://sonore.ning.com/profiles/blogs/doddodo-european-tour-2008
folklore / internet / recording
At the Make: Tokyo Meeting 2 exhibition and workshop which took place at the Tama Art University campus on November 8th, a truly astonishing Satoshi Hama installation entitled ‘folklore / internet / recording’ was on display. The installation consists of a computer program displaying a map of the world. By moving the cursor of the mouse you can pinpoint a specific zone and mix “natural” sound sources located nearby (water, frogs, voices, trains, cars), then mix and scratch them using a Ms Pinky vinyl record/software; a truly enjoyable new sound experience. http://www.hamasatoshi.net/
SONORE Blog&SNS
We created SONORE Blog&SNS in order to get up close and personal with you. Many SONORE enthusiasts have already joined the project (listeners/readers, journalists, artists, promoters, etc.) and we want you there too! We will provide up-to-date information about our activities as well as in synch news about the Tokyo art and music scene. The site has all the normal features of a blog plus social networking facilities. You can customize your own page and participate on the SONORE “Main” page where we’re handing over space for you to react, post and comment. http://sonore.ning.com/
Thank you for your continuous support!
The SONORE Team
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SONORE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Founded as a record company in 1998, SONORE also became an artistic agency in 2008 at the same time as celebrating its 10th anniversary.Booking, providing management, music sales and publishing, SONORE has discovered so much talent in Japan that it has had to develop and broaden its activities to keep pace.With 28 disks out to date (current releases:Akane Hosaka and applehead), an authoritative work on Japanese music (Japanese Independent Music, 2001), contributions to films and documentaries (Body Modification Freaks, 2008) and numerous European bookings (Maywa Denki at the Les Bains Numériques festival at Enghien-les-bains on 6 June 2008 or Doravideo at the Universal Exhibition in Zaragossa, 16-17 August 2008), the Nîmes Biennial, the Japanese Experience (LEX), organised together with the Theatre of Nîmes must be one of SONORE's major achievements so far. LEX 2009 will present all the thrill of contemporary Japanese creativity, bringing 19 music, dance and performance projects to Nîmes from 24 to 28 March 2009 (YMCK, Baby-Q, ASA-CHANG & Junray).In between times, SONORE will be celebrating its 10th anniversary on Friday 10 October 2008 at Super Deluxe in Tokyo (“LEX 2009 SNEAK PREVIEW”) and on Sunday 23 November at Club Noon in Osaka (“Mozarella Panic Tour”) as part of the Osaka Festival of European Film.
KEVIN BLECHDOM - NEW ALBUM !!! OUT NOW !!!! OMG !!!
GENTLEMANIA!! GENTLEMANIA!! GENTLEMANIA!! GENTLEMANIA!!
An acoustic album chock full of palpitating love songs.
Kevin Blechdom plays piano and sings.
Available NOW on Sonig and on iTunes.
www.itunes.com/kevinblechdom/gentlemania
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