Tickets and gig details:
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YUMI HARA 'GROOVE STUDY' LAUNCH – YUMI HARA / CHRIS CUTLER / PIERRE CHEVALIER / TOSHIAKI SUDOH / CHLÖE HERINGTON + THE WATTS (YUMI HARA / CHRIS CUTLER / TIM HODGKINSON) with TOSHIAKI SUDOH + DJ MARINA ORGAN ← Cafe OTO

MATINEE:YUMI HARA 'GROOVE STUDY' LAUNCH – YUMI HARA / CHRIS CUTLER / PIERRE CHEVALIER / TOSHIAKI SUDOH / CHLÖE HERINGTON + THE WATTS (YUMI HARA / CHRIS CUTLER / TIM HODGKINSON) WITH TOSHIAKI SUDOH + DJ MARINA ORGAN

Launch of Yumi Hara's 2nd solo album CD entitled 'Groove Study', consisting of her compositions exploring various aspects of rhythms while going back and forth between tonality and atonality including Raggae in 7/8, early music inspired song in 13/8, drum'n'bass played by pianos and Ekranoplan themed church organ epic as well as avan-rock treated Schoenberg's unfinished piano fragment. She will perform a selection of tracks from the CD with recording members Chris Cutler and Toshiaki Sudoh (from Japan) plus Pierre Chevalier (from Belgium) and Chlöe Herington.

Supported by School of Arts and Cutural Industries, University of East London
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation

Performers:

- Yumi Hara / piano, harp, voice (Half the Sky, Lindsay Cooper Songbook, The Artaud Beats, you me & us, Frank Chickens, etc)
- Chris Cutler / drums (Henry Cow, HIMMEL, The Hyperion Ensemble etc)
- Pierre Chevalier / keyboards (Present, faUSt, Aranis, Univers Zero etc)
- Toshiaki Sudoh / bass, drums (Melt-Manana, Machine & the Synagetic Nuts, Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O'Rourke etc)
- Chlöe Herington / bassoon, electronics (Knifeworld, Chrome Hoof, VÄLVĒ)
- Tim Hodgkinson / clarinet, alto sax, lap steel guitar (Henry Cow, Konk Pack, The Hyperion Ensemble, etc)
- DJ Marina Organ (The Other Rock Show/Resonance FM)