The event: 20 guitarists, four sets, 8 hours of music, and a full house at SDLX on June 29, 2008.
Highlights: Weird ways of playing the guitar, collaborations between people like Chiku and Uchihara, and younger sleeper hits like Hannoda
Usual suspects: Noise, noise, noise, and improv--some fine, some boring, but are we still not through 33 years after Metal Machine Music, and god knows how many Merzbow albums!?!!!!
Nice Surprises: People not doing noise
Special Micropop Awards:
Beautiful hair award:
Keiji Haino for his bobmullet
Somebody stop him award:
Keiji Haino for über self-indulgence
Best unassuming guitar wunderkind:
Taku Hannoda for silent subtle and shockingly sweet style
Classy and classic in a ROVO sort of way:
Seichi Yamamoto--I guess he's the Boss
Lovechild of Devendra Banhart and Chara, god child of Gertrude Stein:
Toshiaki Chiku, an middle aged man with the tenderness of Lavender Diamond
Sweetest most exquisite noise:
Imai Toshio trio
Funky, but in need of fashion police warning:
Yoshitake EXPE for really expensive-looking dreadlocks
Man to achieve most sounds intentionally from guitar and effects, and who also happens to be a great bossa nova guitarist:
Uchihashi Kazuhisa
Somebody stop him, no, really, award:
MURATORIX. We don't need to talk about it.
Lick my arse, John Cage:
Yoshihiro Kawasome.
"Hear the ma, hear the ma... it's the space, the space" and he just keeps going
Two time air guitar world champion (for real!) and budding belly dancer (at age 36):
Yosuke Oochi of owarai comedy duo, Dainoji
The Line-up:
Set 1:
Imai Kazuo, Keiichi Miyashita, AxSxE
Nakabayashi Kirala, Hannoda Taku
MURATORIX
Set 2:
Natsuki Kido, Mon Kumagai
Tetsuji Akiyama, Munehiro Narita
Yoshihiro Kawasome
Set 3:
Yoshitake EXPE, Keiji Haino
Seiichi Yamamoto, Kato Takayuki
Toshiaki Chiku, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Takashi Ueno
Set4:
EVERYONE (in different combinations)
Overall Rating: **** (5 stars highest)
Yay for younger musicians doing really interesting new things (like Kawasome and Hannoda). Boo for not even having one woman guitarist the whole evening (Haino's beautiful hair does NOT make this okay)
Link to guitaristival website: http://guitarkuitar.web.fc2.com/
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