Highly Recommended! JEAN-MICHEL / aka Thomas Bücker, the Man behind the amazing Münster Project “Bersarin Quartett” LIVE today Night in Berlin.
Thursday, 30.04.09 // NBI (Schönhauser Allee 36) // Live: JEAN-MICHEL + KYOKA + LUDWIG // www.myspace.com/esmogplayground | www.esmogplayground.de | http://www.myspace.com/bersarinquartett
What on earth is a kyoka? Simply a solo artist whose cut-up-and-dance laptop electronica suggests more screws loose than fully tightened? Her style has seen her labelled as anything from a pop idol to a noise artist. And as it is usually the way, the truth lies somewhere in between.
Starting her solo career at university as a side-project to her school band, Kyoka quickly found herself favouring ever-more unusual outlets for her scatterbrain sound. Finding J-pop utterly unpalatable, she began to look overseas, finding live shows in Europe and the US as well as presenting her own show on Britain’s Resonance FM, ‘Postcards From Kyoka’.
kyoka is finding fans all over the world – from Japanese experimental king Ryuichi Sakamoto, by whom she was invited to join his project, to Stooges/Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, who played her music almost every time of his recent podcast shows and who recorded bass for her sound.
Kyoka and Midori Hirano
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=nX6Gr2YAtuM
A concert by Kyoka and Midori Hirano at the Electronic Church, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, February 15th 2008. Kyoka plays shamisen.
http://www.neueberlinerinitiative.de
