from left to right : Ryoichi Kurokawa, RADIQ aka Yshihiro HANNO and me.
(English below)
ご無沙汰してました。５月２６日から２９日までの４日間、半野喜弘さんとRyoichi Kurokawa君と僕の３人でGeneva, Lausanne, Luzernの３カ所を回る短いスイスツアーを行ってきました。今回このツアーの実現にあたって色々と動いてくれたAnita Scheuberと、３日間のイベントに関わった全ての人々と、ライヴにお越しいただいた全ての方々に感謝します。ありがとう！
写真でもご覧いただけるようにスイスでの３日間は素晴らしい天気に恵まれて、色々と勉強になった事も多かったけど、素晴らしい時間を過ごす事ができました。詳しいレビューはいつも通り近日中にTraksyとLIVE reviewsにアップさせていただく予定です。どうぞお楽しみに。
It's been a while. I just came back from SWISS tour with RADIQ aka Yoshihiro HANNO and Ryoichi Kurokawa a few days ago. We did three LIVE shows in Geneva, Lausanne, Luzern. First of all, I'd like to say thank you to Anita Scheuber who worked so hard to realize this tour and all the people we met and who worked for those events and also people who came to our LIVE shows. Thank you so much.
As you can see from the photos, we had really really beautiful weather in Switzerland this time. I'm planning to upload some photos on my LIVE reviews as always and also the web-magazine called Traksy (Unfortunately this web is only written in Japanese..) with some movies too. Please check them when you have time.
GenevaからLausanneへ電車で移動。こんな素晴らしい景色が数時間続く。窓全開で満喫しました。
今回のツアーでも黒川君の素晴らしく緻密で独創性たっぷりな映像を楽しませてもらったし、半野さんの恐ろしく洗練された複雑でシンプルでFunkyなライヴで打ちのめされました。。自分の未熟さを痛感しています。でもこんな凄い二人とツアーに回れて本当に良い勉強になりました。リョウ君、半野さん、ありがとうございました。
This time I really enjoyed Ryoichi's fine and ingenious images and also I was knocked over by RADIQ's incredibly complicated but still simple and funky LIVE performance. Now i strongly feel that i need to improve my sound more and more.. However, I'm so glad and happy to be able to get the opportunity to work with those such a talented people this time. Thank you so much, Ryoichi and Mr.Hanno!
そんな半野さんの新しいアルバム『Angelus』が先日リリースされました。何をやらせても誰も追随できないクオリティーと独創性と音楽性を猛烈な勢いで発揮する天才が、またまた信じられないぐらい美しくて実験的でそれでいて素晴らしくポップな傑作をリリースしました。僕もリリース前から何度も聴かせてもらっていたんですが、もう何も言う事はないです、素晴らしいの一言。こんな人が自分の身近にいるって本当に物凄い事やなって思うんです。感謝。半野さんは『今は天才なんかおらん。だって会うた事ないもん』って仰るけど、そりゃそうです、だってあなたが天才やから。僕はそう思いますよ。僕も今の所半野さん以外会ったことないし。
半野喜弘『Angelus』
Hi AOKI,
hope you enjoyed your trip in Swizerland!
I was pleased being able to help to make it happen, it was great. Lives in Zinema just killed me! It was a nice place for watching Ryoichi's work. And I can tell you that people really liked your concerts. I got really good feedbacks both from Geneva and Lausanne :-) I think you'll have good opportunities to come back in the next future.
What's Angelus?.. ok I will ask Midori to translate ;-)
Mata
Posted by: jim at June 1, 2005 9:30 PMHi Jim.
Thanks for your comment.
and thank you so much for inviting us to your nice room.
We had really great time there.
And I'm so glad to hear that you and people who came to our show loved our perfonaces. I hope we can have another opportunity to come to Switzerland again soon.
>What's Angelus?..
sorry i didn't write about it in English. "Angelus" is a new album of Yoshihiro HANNO which was released on Japanese major label called Toshiba-EMI recently. Unfortunately it was only released in Japan but I can tell you that it is one of the best work he ever done, another masterpiece from him, again :-)
I strongly recommend you to check it when you have a chance.
see you soon.
Posted by: AOKI at June 2, 2005 2:27 AM
