[Event Chat] Bad Timing: Tetuzi Akiyama + Chris Forsyth (pee-ess-eye) + C Joynes - 20/10/10

Micro-Event Chat -- this is tonight.

Perverse and diverse, primitive and reductionist guitar explorations from Japan, USA and UK.

Tetuzi Akiyama/ Chris Forsyth

"An unbeatable guitar duo from this perverse/diverse pairing of a Japanese reductionist and an American valve-driven voyager. Forsyth and Akiyama will also play suitably contrasting solo sets.

Tetuzi Akiyama was performing regularly in Japan in the mid-90s in a range of outfits alongside Taku Sugimoto, Keiji Haino, Toshimaru Nakamura (No-input mixing board) and Takashi Matsuoka. He began to become familiar to Western ears in 1995 when he toured the US in a guitar duo with Sugimoto. Akiyama is a serial collaborator with artists and labels across the globe, and has releases on Digitalis, Bo’Weavil, Monotype and many others, featuring collaborations with such diverse artists as Tom Greenwood, Donald McPherson, Gul3 as well as his own divine solo explorations."

http://www.japanimprov.com/takiyama/profile.html

"Meanwhile, Forsyth has become increasingly well-known for his very out-there work with Peeesseye ("the most remarkable smorgasbord of back porch minimalism, sound poetry and urban decay of recent memory” - Eric Weddle, Family Vineyard) and also his sublime solo work based around his exquisite playing of electric and acoustic guitars. His very limited ‘Dreams’ lp continues to cause ripples of pleasure long after it sold out, beginning with mesmeric acoustic phrase repetition and later building to some kind of delirious electric cataclysm. Forsyth follows it with his forthcoming ‘Paranoid Cat + 3’ lp later this year.

http:/www.thechrisforsyth.com
http://www.evolvingear.com
This duo is their most explorative work yet though. Their October tour will see them perform one solo each and then a duo at each show, and is sure to be a journey through the polarized possibilities of what can be done with a guitar."

C Joynes
(Bo' Weavil, UK)

English acoustic guitarist C Joynes, a resident of Cambridge, heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions. the English folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the European classical tradition. His approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste. . (Rhodri Davies)

http://www.myspace.com/cjoynes

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/96284

How does one pay in advance?

It's on wegottickets (link added) I would probably be open to doing reservations at that price for people on here though.

I wasn't going to pay in advance, I was just being a troublemaker. ;) I was planning on staying in tonight, looks like I'm going out now. :P

Bad Timing appreciates both lo-fi and pedantry ... especially at the same time. :-)

Shit was tight, yo. I left after Tetuzi played but Dave reckoned there was another duo set after that?

Thanks to people who came out in the cold for this one. We didn't get time for the duo in the end as basically each person got into playing long pieces and overran their half hour and I didn't feel like it would have added anything to distract them in the middle to tell them to stop. Tetuzi finished about 10:55.

He finished at about 10:58, I know as I was running out the door to catch a bus. [/pedantry]

Who the hell is Dave?