Saturday 7th November 2009
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £8 / £14 Tori & Reiko 2 Day Pass (Cafe OTO ONLY)
OTO project presents a three day residency with Tori and Reiko Kudo of Maher Shalal Hash Baz. The first two days they will perform at Café OTO and the final third show will be at Kings Place.
Reiko Kudo began her musical career with Noise, the group she founded in 1979. The band flirted with different lineups and styles before settling as a duo; Reiko wrote the songs, played guitar and trumpet, and sang, while Tori Kudo accompanied her on drums and organ. Noise released one album, Tenno, in 1980. Though Reiko was performing as Noise solo by 1982, her partnership with Tori had not ended -- instead, the two were married. Reiko would later be involved with one of Tori's new projects, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and released her own solo album, Fire Inside My Hat. She would continue to release works on a number of labels, including Org., Periodic Document, and Hyotan Records.
Reiko Kudo has gone on to release a clutch of wonderful solo records one of which prompted Alan Cummings to scribe: "It is nothing short of heart-stoppingly gorgeous. And as an honest-to-god example of happiness glimpsed through the quotidian, artistic perfection all the more perfect for not being striven for, you couldnt wish for anything more. A perfect prescription for those moments of fragility when you doubt your own pulse."
LINKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTXiqBAF5Hs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RilbFRacKDI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWfuwcO-C3s&feature=related
Shiu-Yeung Hui plays music alone and with friends and he plays drums and piano and other things for maher shalal hash baz. He lives in Copenhagen. "Possessed of a quiet dynamism which can turn on a sixpence like a firework; a type of person not found among Japanese; like an airplane painting pictures on a cloud, Shiu will join the ranks of great modern Chinese artists." Tori Kudo, Maher Shalal Hash Baz
"London has Let Me Down appropriate or interpret popular songs in so singular a fashion that you will be reminded afresh of the simple redemptive power of songs sung true; that what can seem like trite over-sentimentality in popular music, can in the right hands be transformed into the source for an achingly beautiful lament or celebration. Shoes is the story of a memory of a love affair which is simultaneously a source of lingering pain and of a supernatural mana. Their habit of truncating songs purposefully or spontaneously and the ever shifting line-up mean that every performance is subtly-radically different. Its a quiet dynamism and youve got to listen carefully or you wont hear what is going on, but if you do learn to listen, both prettiness and a preternatural wisdom await you."Philip Brunton, Niigata English Journal, Japan
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