SATURDAY 12th July 2008
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £5
I Am A Kamura
Singer Atsuko Kamura began her career by juggling roles as karaoke bar hostess and punk chanteuse in Tokyo, performing with the agit-fem Polkadot Fire Brigade and The Honeymoons. Her arrival in London led to a spell with the situationist pranksters Frank Chickens, duetting with Kazuko Hohki. In parallel she has explored improvisation with masters of the art like Tenko, Fred Frith and John Zorn, and in London alongside Charles Hayward and Lol Coxhill. She co-presents Onkyodo, a weekly radio show devoted to Japanese music on Resonance Radio 104.4 FM.
I am a Kamura play Chinese ballads from the thirties, Japanese folk song and self-penned material, but live Kamura mixes her experience and spontaneity and soars up to another level. She is backed by a four-piece band including Simon King, Paul May, Matt Armstrong and Robert Storey.
David Ross
Principally known as long time drummer with the East London surf-combo Kenny Process Team, David Ross has in the last few years branched out to the 'non-idiomatic' producing the CD 'Mystery Lights' (Metier) with Clive Bell, and the improvisational soundscapes of Grutronic (http://www.myspace.com/grutronicmusic). With an array of tone generators and filters at his disposal he conjures up an electro-acoustic panoply with the deft touch of a percussionist.
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