Yumi Hara gig dates 2020

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18 July Wakayama, LURU HALL with Fatern
venue open to live audience (3000 yen), also live streaming (flat charge 1000 yen)

19 July Osaka, Mrs Dolphin with Les Animaux, Izumo Makiko, Fatern and Emmy★Kunocovic
venue open to live audience (SOLD OUT), also free-to-view live streaming here, donation welcome Donate here

20 July, Yumi Hara Birthday Live Streaming with Tatsuya Yoshida, Natsuki Kido, Toshiaki Sudoh, Miwazow, Wataru Ohkuma, Itoken, Rie Takeuchi
venue closed to live audience, free-to-view live streaming, details below.

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'Yumi Hara Birthday Live Streaming' 20 July 2020
Streaming starts at 8pm Japan time, 12 noon UK time

with Tatsuya Yoshida, Natsuki Kido, Toshiaki Sudoh, Miwazow, Wataru Ohkuma, Itoken, Rie Takeuchi

This is a 'behind-closed-door-no-live-audience', 'free-to-view' worldwide streaming, so donations most welcome!!  donate here
As a special thanks, you will receive a very special URL to access to
an extra footage after the performance (please allow a couple of days).

You can watch via CLUB GOODMAN Channel
<Programme & performers> details below

<Programme & performers>

Set 1:
a selection of Lindsay Cooper material
(News from Babel, Music for Films, and a bit of Henry Cow)
Side B of Ruth is Stranger than Richard (Robert Wyatt)
World premiere of a new piece from forthcoming Yumi’s second solo album

Yumi Hara (voice, piano, keyboard)
Miwazow (voice, koto, ching-dong percussion, from Half the Sky, CICALA-MVTA, etc)
Wataru Ohkuma (cl, sax, from Half the Sky, CICALA-MVTA, etc)
Rie Takeuchi (sax)
Itoken (drums)
Toshiaki Sudoh (bass,from Melt Banana, Mou Shinda Hitotachi, THE WATTS sessions etc)

Set 2:
A selection of Canterbury tunes
Materials from Yumi’s first solo album ‘Statement Heels’
‘Yes Medley’

Yumi Hara (voice, piano, keyboard)
Tatsuya Yoshida (drums, from Ruins, Korekyojinn, etc)
Natsuki Kido (guitar, from Bondage Fruit, Korekyojinn, etc)
Toshiaki Sudoh (bass, from Melt Banana, Mou Shinda Hitotachi, THE WATTS sessions etc)

This is a free-to-view live streaming which can be watched from anywhere in the world, from Akihabara GOODMAN, Tokyo, Japan, due to be closed down in mid-August, without live audience at the venue due to the covid-19 safety measures,
so we are completely relying on your donations!
Donations will be used to cover the venue cost, members of venue staff, tech staff and for performers' expense.
As a special thanks, you will receive a very special URL to access to
an extra footage after the performance (please allow a couple of days).
You can donate in units of £5 GBP, any number of units, and any number of times. Many thanks and enjoy the streaming!

Yumi Hara, a Japanese pianist based in London, best known for her work in avant-rock such as The Artaud Beats (with Geoff Leigh, John Greaves, Chris Cutler), you me & us (with Daevid Allen, Chris Cutler), THE WATTS (with Tim Hodgkinson, Chris Cutler), Half the Sky/Lindsay Cooper Songbook, Jump for Joy! (with Jean-Herve Peron, Zappi, Geoff Leigh, Chris Cutler, Geraldine Swayne) and many more, will perform her birthday live with Japanese avant-musicians, looking back her career in the past ten years and preview of her forthcoming second solo album, plus Lindsay Cooper material, Robert Wyatt’s ‘Ruth is Stranger Than Richard’ side B in its entirety, and the famous Korekyojinn’s ‘Yes Medley’. Unmissable.

*Yumi Hara 2nd solo album launch + retrospective 2-day residency at Cafe OTO, 27-28 June 2020 has now been postponed exactly one year to 26-27 June 2021.
THE WATTS, Jump for Joy!, Itako Sisters, Sonic Rituals duo, Lindsay Cooper Songbook Alone+, Yumi Solo materials+Canterbury Favorites, DJ Marina Organ (The Other Rock Show/Resonance FM) and DJ Kyle McCallum (Extra Normal Records/Contra Pop) are confirmed.

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