10/11 (wed) Frank Gratkowski & 内橋和久 JAPAN TOUR

現代音楽からジャズまで幅広い音楽性と柔軟性を持つ奇才。今年10月にはアンサンブルモダーンのために書き下ろした彼の作品もリリースされる。内橋ともベルリン移住当初から意気投合し現在3つのプロジェクトも進行中。2人のデュオはボーダレス。ぜひお見逃しなく！ 

KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2023  フリンジ「More Experiments」 

◇ OPEN 19:00 / START 19:30
◇ adv.3000 yen + 1drink / door.3500 yen + 1drink 

フランク・グラトコフスキー(Frank Gratkowski)
1963年ハンブルク生まれ。
ケルン音楽大学でハイナー・ヴィベルニーにサックスを学び、チャーリー・マリアーノ、スティーブ・レイシーに師事。
多くのジャズオーケストラでソリストとして活動することに加えて、 1990年のソロ活動をスタート。1999年以来毎年アメリカツアーも敢行。彼はドイツのほぼすべての主要なジャズ・フェスティバルだけでなく、数多くの国際的なジャズ/ニュー・ミュージック・フェスティバルに出演。共演者もピーター・コワルド、レイ・アンダーソン、グレッグ・オズビー、ケニー・ウィーラー、ケン・ヴァンダーマーク、デヴィッド・モス、バール・フィリップス、ハミド・ドレイク、フィル・ミントン、マーク・ドレッサー、マーク・フェルドマン、ハン・ベニンク、マル・ウォルドロン、ミーシャ・メンゲルベルクなど幅広い。内橋とはベルリン移住後すぐ意気投合し現在3つのプロジェクトを進行中。すでに３枚のアルバムを発表している

KAZUHISA UCHIHASHI

composer, electric guitar and daxophone player, music producer

was born in Osaka, Japan in 1959. Plays guitar since his twelfth years.

Later he became involved in jazz.

Since 1983 he has devoted himself intensively to free improvised music. He experimented thouroughly with many different kinds of machines and sound-devices to expand the expression possibilities of the electric guitar.

He also composed music for films, theatre plays, dance. Among them, he has been working with Japanese Therter group “ISHINHA” for more than 30 years.
He made a name for himself in Japan in concerts with such improvising musicians as Hans Reichel, Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Ned Rothenberg, Barre Phillips, Kan Tae Fwan, Peter Brötzman, Derek Bailey , Samm Bennett , Steve Beresford , Lukas Ligeti, Jon Rose , Zeena Parkins, Sylvie Courvoisier, Zsolt Sores, Elliott Sharp, Eugene Chadbourne, Leo Smith, Bobby Previte, Billy Martin, Ami Yamasaki, Stomu Takeishi,  Martin Siewert, Fernando Kabusacki, Mono Fontana, Burkhard Stangle, Helge Hinteregger, Massimo Pupillo, Butch Morris, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Sabu Toyozumi,  Henry Kaiser, Chris Cutler , Tenko, Rene Russier, Joke Lanz, Lukas Koenig, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Martin Tétreault, Diane Labrosse, Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Haco, Barre Phillips, Wayne Horvitz, Katarina Ernst, Slawek Janicki, Keiji Haino, Rob Mazurek,  Piotr Zabrodzki ,Dieb 13, Noid, Tamara Wilhelm, Dickson Dee, Liz Allbee,  SENYAWA,  Iman Jimbot, MaKK Null,  Billy Roiz, Gene, Coleman, Thomas Lehn,  Charles Hayward ,Han Bennink, Shelley Hirsch, Tatsuya Yoshida,  Kresten Osgood, Franz Hautzinger, Joe McPhee, Koichi Makigami, Kazutoki Umezu, Akira Sakata, Waclaw Zimpel, Shih Yang Lee, Junji Hirose, Maciej Obara, Roger Turner, Andy Moor,  Mani Neumeier, Christian Marclay, Mark Feldman, Richard Scott, Lol Coxhill, Phill Minton, Audrey Chen, Tatsuya Nakatani, Michiyo Yagi, Yoshihide Otomo, Yuji Takahashi, Masahiko Sato,  Jerzy Rogiewicz, Kuba Suchar, Patryk Zakrocki, Craig Harris, Paweł Szamburski, Melvin Gibbs, Tony Lewis, Pete Drungle, Mats Gustafson, Steve Coleman, John Greaves, Geoff Leigh, Kevin Ayers, David Allen, Yan Jun, Toristan Honsinger, Itaru Oki, Richard Scott, John Lindberg, Jerzy Mazzoll, Jacek Kochan, Ikue Mori, Joelle Leandre, Magda Mayas, Carl Stone, Ute Wassermann, Silke Eberhard, Isabelle Dutoit, Akira Sotoyama, Macio Moretti, Rui Faustino, Tony Buck, Michael Vorfeld, Olaf Rupp, Naoko Kikuchi, Steve Heather, Dan Peter Sundland, Andrea Parkins,  Michal Gorczynski, LXMP, Aki Takase, Alexander von Schlippenbach,  Peter Kowald, Seiichi Yamamoto, Axel Dörner, Alfred Harth, Frank Gratkowski, Paul Lovens, Achim Kaufmann, Gerry Hemingway ,Richard Barrett ,Wilbert de Joode , Shibusashirazu Orchestra and others.

He has been conducting his rock-oriented powerful improvised band “Altered States” for 33 years and continues to create his own new guitar music in solo as well as in “Altered States”. He is also known by playing with Otomo Yoshihide’s GROUND ZERO in 90’s .
Uchihashi was invited to hundreds of music festival in the world these 30 years.

Since 1995 he has been starting to direct “New Music Action Workshop” for young musicians in KOBE every month, and now he is going to keep it in Tokyo Osaka,England,Poland,Austria,Norway,Singapore,Thailand.

Since 1996 he has also been organizing the New Music festival “BEYOND INNOCENCE” every year untill 2007.

Uchihashi is also well known to daxophone player . Daxophone is german guitar player Hans Reichel’s invention.

In recent years, he has focused on pan-asian identity in music. Since 2010 he’s traveled to Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Phillippines and China to create special collaborative projectx with local musicians. MAHANYAWA is one of the best collaboration unit with SENYAWA from Indonesia.

His special instrument , the daxophone, is a creation of the late guitarist/inventor , Hans Reichel , who was a creative partner of Uchihashi. Now he is based in Berlin and trying new project here.