Every year at this time is the season of Tomorrow Festival, an avant-garde music festival organized by B10 Live.
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the festival is canceled this year but you can watch a special presentation of its past concert videos, titled “Yesterday Festival,” on the Bilibili (哔哩哔哩) live-steaming app. This weekend, three videos of seven musicians or bands will be shown every night Friday through Sunday.
Schedule:
• May 15, 8:30 p.m., Feldermelder, Guru Guru
• May 16, 8:30 p.m., Pierre Bastien, Koenji Hyakkei
• May 17, 8:30 p.m., Pandit Narendra Mishra & Kushal Krishna, Keiji Haino
Swiss artist Feldermelder is a modular synth enthusiast whose influences range from the decomposed structure works of old pioneers of electronic music to more classical jazz, electronic and analog music. The diversity of the music that inspires him is reflected in his own sonic adventures, forming his ever-evolving sound, combining as a map and compass to guide his artistic outbursts.
Guru Guru is a German krautrock band formed in 1968 and carved its way outside the mainstream and short-lived trends by blending experimental rock, avant-garde, jazz and world music into an unique, original form of rock’n’roll.
Guru Guru
Pierre Bastien is a French composer and experimental musical instrument builder. He began building mechanical-based musical instruments at an early age, using items such as metronomes, cymbals, and pulleys. In 1977 he began collaborating with Pascal Comelade and composes music for dance companies.
Koenji Hyakkei is a Japanese Zeuhl band led by Yoshida Tatsuya of Ruins. The band released their first album in 1994 with Aki Kubota from Bondage Fruit on vocals and keyboard. Though rhythmically not as complex as Ruins, Koenji Hyakkei still evokes a feeling of unfamiliarity due to non-standard modes and chanting in a nonsensical language.
Keiji Haino is a Japanese singer-songwriter whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise music, percussion, psychedelic music, minimalism and drone music. He has been active since the 1970s and continues to record regularly and in new styles.
The pure, touching and joyful music by renowned sitar player Pandit Narendra Mishra and his cousin, a great tabla artist, Kushal Krishna, can also be heard Sunday night.
Other past videos of OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival and Tomorrow Festival are also available on B10 Live’s Bilibili account.