JULY 2017: Live shows by Samm Bennett & his various ensembles
Hello friends, Samm Bennett here, with information on upcoming shows that I DO so hope you'll come out to hear! Live music is very good for you!
WED 7/12 : on percussion with BANDA CHORO ELETRICO
at Showboat, Koenji, Tokyo
open 19:00 / start 19:30 adv.¥3200 / door ¥3600
Showboat website's July calendar HERE
Showboat website with links to advance ticket puchase info [Japanese language only] HERE
open 19:00 / start 19:30 adv.¥3200 / door ¥3600
Showboat website's July calendar HERE
Showboat website with links to advance ticket puchase info [Japanese language only] HERE
BANDA CHORO ELETRICO is a big, ecstatic and totally grooving Brazilian music unit led by bassist and composer extraordinaire Sawada Jyoji. The full membership clocks in at about, oh, 15 musicians or so, and includes brilliant flutist Ogata Mitsuru and slamming drummer Numa Noaya. (Numa-san and Sawada-san happen to be members of The Smoky Dose, and you might've heard us at some point doing more improvised groove-based stuff). But EVERYBODY in this band is killer, I ain't lying.
For me this band is a chance to get back to being a percussionist, adding spice and color to the musical proceedings with shakers, bells, bongos, woodblocks, whistles, rattles, scrapers and various other items, as well as the CUICA, which I love playing but outside of this format have little chance to! Anyway, if you are a fan of samba or choro or baiao-style groove, and if you are a fan of, say Hermeto Pascoal or Tom Zé, you will LOVE Banda Choro Eletrico. Check it out.
For me this band is a chance to get back to being a percussionist, adding spice and color to the musical proceedings with shakers, bells, bongos, woodblocks, whistles, rattles, scrapers and various other items, as well as the CUICA, which I love playing but outside of this format have little chance to! Anyway, if you are a fan of samba or choro or baiao-style groove, and if you are a fan of, say Hermeto Pascoal or Tom Zé, you will LOVE Banda Choro Eletrico. Check it out.
WED 7/19 : on drums with AMAZING FLYING MACHINE
as part of Soundrise "Jazz & Blues Week" presented by LOOKUP!JAPAN
at GIGS, Kamata, Tokyo
Open 18:30 / Start 19:00 - entry: ¥2,000 + 1 drink (¥500)
The AMAZING FLYING MACHINE will take off and soar once again, friends, as part of . The band features the inspired, trance-like recitations and spontaneous poetic creations of Marcellus Nealy, who brings his formidable word-performance skills to bear over a shifting musical carpet of funky beats provided by bassist Koyu Suzuki and drummer Samm Bennett. And winding his merry melodic way through the proceedings is Mitsuru Ogata on electronically-extended flute.
If you dig the 70s-era funky-soul-jazz vibe and performance aesthetic of Gil Scott-Heron or The Last Poets, for example, you'll dig the AMAZING FLYING MACHINE. If you dig a percolating, African-esque groove or a solid pocket a la James Brown or Sly and the Family Stone, you'll dig the AMAZING FLYING MACHINE. Oh, and we'll be doing that cerrtain something that only we can do Come on over to Okubo and fly with us.
If you dig the 70s-era funky-soul-jazz vibe and performance aesthetic of Gil Scott-Heron or The Last Poets, for example, you'll dig the AMAZING FLYING MACHINE. If you dig a percolating, African-esque groove or a solid pocket a la James Brown or Sly and the Family Stone, you'll dig the AMAZING FLYING MACHINE. Oh, and we'll be doing that cerrtain something that only we can do Come on over to Okubo and fly with us.
GIGS website
Below: at-a-glance map - Need more detail? Go to Google map to GIGS
SUN 7/23 : SOLO songs on three strings
as part of "The Go Betweens" - a full evening of music and DJ sounds
at Bonobo, Harajuku area, Tokyo
OPEN & START: 18:00 - ENTRY: ¥1500(1Drink付)
OPEN & START: 18:00 - ENTRY: ¥1500(1Drink付)
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My last full solo set before taking off for shows in London, Paris and Brittany. I'm on from 19:30 to 20:15. Bonobo is a really cool venue, set up in an old-school Japanese-style house. Go upstairs, go down, lounge around! Cool!
Also appearing: LIVE Yamasaki Harumi, voice (Taco/Gaseneta) + Tabata Mitsuru, guitar (Acid Mothers Temple) DJ : Nakahara Masaya from Hair Stylistics, Ishihara Yo (ex.White Heaven/The Stars) and DJ Okiishi |