| 1 | If you insist | 15:27 |
| 2 | Still... | 11:43 |
This is an archival recording of the first time meeting for vocalists and electronic musicians Anat and Kamura. Recorded live at the Hundred Years Gallery as part of the Earshots concert series on 04/10/2014
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Anat Ben-David / voice and electronics
Atsuko Kamura / voice and electronics
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Daniel Kordik & Edward Lucas: recording / master / design
Andrej Chudy: photograph
Available as 320k MP3 or 16bit FLAC
Tracklisting:
1. If you insist - 15.27
2. Still... - 11.43
Artist, composer and performer Anat Ben-David is a solo artist and a member of Chicks On Speed. Other collaborators include Anna Dennis, Lina Lapelyete and the Candy shop ensemble. For the past two years Anat has been writing and performing with James Oldham (Waste Paper Opera) who will join her at OTO for None of This Is Real, where Anat will perform a special arrangement of songs from her more experimental back catalogue, as well as new unreleased material written with James Oldham.
Anat teaches on the Fashion and Communication BA at Central Saint Martins, as well as leading performance workshops around the UK and internationally.
Website: https://www.anatbendavid.me | https://anatben-david.bandcamp.com
Atsuko Kamura brings her extraordinary voice and melodic sense: a background in feminist punk-rock leading to avant-noise improvisation with Tenko, Zorn, et al in NYC, followed by a sequence of albums. On “4 am” her first solo album “she douses the anti musical strategies of the late-seventies Rock In Opposition movement … with a soupçon of fizzy electrics, her operatic voice navigating an echoing mirror maze of pulses and tones.” - Stewart Lee, in The Idler, May/June 2022.
One of Tokyo's most emotive and inventive artists, and a member of Japan’s 80’s women’s liberation movement, Kamura is a founder member of the first Japanese all-female punk band, Mizutama Shobodan, also known as Polkadot Fire Brigade, formed in 1979 in Tokyo. Kamura also teamed up with singer Tenko as the female improvisation vocal duo Honeymoons in 1981. They developed a unique style of avant-noise improvisation and performed internationally with seminal New York improvisers Tom Cora and John Zorn, and at the International Women's Music Festival in Montreal in 1988. Their album Laughing Myth, produced by Kenichi Takeda, was released in 1982. Kamura joined Kazuko Hohki’s UK-based Japanese pop group Frank Chickens in 1988, and toured Europe, the US, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, USSR and Japan. She also worked as a traditional Benshi narrator performing A Page of Madness with her original soundtrack at FILM FEST, an international silent film festival in Portugal.
http://www.kamuraobscura.com
https://soundcloud.com/kamuraobscura
