In 2023 tourde Indie follkmusicus Tamara van Esch met Japanse muzikant Chima en kunstschilder Kohei Kondo door het prachtige Japan, waar ze per trein door het hele land reisden en in plekken van het grootse Tokio tot het kleine en gemoedelijke bergdorpje Taketa in prefectuur Oita speelden. Deze eigenzinnige en wonderlijke Japanse cultuur wordt in oktober naar Nederland gehaald: Chima en Kohei gaan met Tamara hier op tour.
Tijdens de shows maakt de lieflijk gefocuste Kohei droomachtige live schilderingen op basis van de kleine en verrassende liedjes van Chima en Tamara’s eclectische indie folk. Dit zorgt voor twee live sets waar je als luisteraar niet alleen in de muziek wordt meegenomen, maar nog meer kunt wegdromen dankzij subtiele en met aandacht gemaakte schilderijen.
Je kunt na de show een stukje Japanse schilderkunst en muziek mee naar huis nemen. Een intieme belevenis in de sfeer van de rustige, verrassende, eigenzinnige Japanse cultuur.
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Chima
A singer-songwriter, born in Japan. After releasing her first album “Suzuran” in 2011, she has released 6 solo albums and 3 picturebooks over the years. With her soft and soothing voice and electric guitar, she has gone on many journeys, performing all over Japan.
She also composed theater music with film director Shunji Iwai and several anime theme songs. This year, she sang the theme song of G7 Hiroshima 2023.
[website] chimala.net
Kohei Kondo
Born in 1975 in Japan, Kohei Kondo is a painter based in Tokyo. He holds a Masters course from Tottori University, majoring in forestry. Later he taught himself painting. He is active in a variety of “painting” genres including live painting, clothing line branding, book sleeves, CD jackets and performing arts. He has held solo exhibitions in various locations across Japan, Taiwan,Thailand and the United States. He has provided designs for fashion brands, seasonal visuals at commercial facilities, CD jackets, and appeared on television.
During his live painting performances, he completes one painting per song and uses a video camera and a projector to let the audience experience the live painting.
His paintings are influenced largely by two things: he expresses the feelings that he gets in nature and is inspired by a Japanese traditional aesthetic sense called ‘mitate’. For example, ancient Japanese viewed a rock in the garden as an island floating in the waves. Likewise, they have imaged the plum blossoms in association with the snow. He makes use of this kind of sensibility in his paintings. He brings ‘mitate’ into one universe and narrative, in a pattern that floats across the canvas.
[website] note.com/kondo1975/n/n1a889c5a68d4
Tamara van Esch
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tamara van Esch composes and plays eclectic baroque indie folk/rock reminiscent of This is the Kit and Mitski. Tamara’s three previous albums under the moniker ‘Mevrouw Tamara’ were well received. She has played shows on Dutch national TV and radio, at prominent venues in the Netherlands and has toured in Italy, Belgium, Germany, Cyprus and Japan. With her record ‘Tussen Lagen’ she relays stories that are hopeful, inspired by interviews with psychologically vulnerable people, who participated in creating the lyrics and artwork. She’s currently working on a new record as her 200-year-old persona Gracie who lives in 2045, describing her past and future life experiences. Next to writing, playing and managing her own music, Tamara plays keys, guitar, percussion and sings in the live band of Blaudzun and is part of Render Ghosts (UK).
[website] tamaravanesch.nl
Bekijk hier een live uitvoering van hun show in 2023 in Tokio:
