Altmusic presents
Tenniscoats and Rachel Shearer with special guests
The Tenniscoats
in association with Room 40 and Asia NZ
Sat, Feb 21st
Cross St Studios, 27 Cross Street, Auckland CBD
$10.00
Japan's Tenniscoats are a gloriously rare find. Working in the spaces between eccentric pop, shimmery folk and the avant
garde, Tenniscoats' Saya and Ueno seamlessly meld together these disparate interests into one of the most compelling
visions of music presently surfacing from Japan. Tenniscoats centre around the duo of Saya and Taskashi Ueno, a married
couple who have been making music since 2000, and together run the highly regarded Japanese label Majikick Records.
Tenniscoats manage to reign in the sounds of the avant-garde and knit them into accessible and wonderfully listenable
vignettes in which you find yourself going back to again and again. Their starting point is pop songs, but with a
staggeringly free approach: psychedelic folk tunes, complex instrumentals and short pop jewels side by side, everything
is possible. A song can be performed in a myriad ways.
Tenniscoats have become one of the hippest bands on the underground scene, though their vast legion of worldwide fans
probably indicates that 'underground' is no longer applicable. Such renown is helped, of course, by an ability to
produce the kind of music that grabs your attention whatever you're doing.
http://www.myspace.com/tenniscoats
Rachel Shearer has released a series of projects and performed live under the moniker Lovely Midget since 1997 with a
10” vinyl release on US label ‘Ecstatic Peace’, a CD on NZ label Corpus Hermeticum in 2000, and more recently the DVD
release ‘Fakerie’ with US label Family Vineyard.
Rachel combines her musical experimentations with a variety of sound practices - creating public sound installations,
composing music for film, involvement as an experimental composer and performer in live events exploring the
relationship between audio and the projected image, freelancing as a sound designer/sound editor for feature films,
documentaries and television drama. Rachel will be joined by special guests - Dean Roberts, Guy Treadgold and Sean
O'Reilly.
http://audiofoundation.org.nz/artist/rachel-shearer-aka-lovely-midget/ 146
http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz/alt2009.htm
for more details
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