Shoji Hano Master Drummer of Japan

Adam Art Gallery in conjunction with the New Zealand School of Music, Happy and A Center for Art presents:

SHOJI HANO
Master Drummer from Japan


Born in 1955, based in Tokyo, Shoji Hano is one of free-jazz, noise and psychedelic rock’s most preeminent percussionists and brilliant all-round sages. Widely regarded on the same consecrated plane as celebrated jazz heavyweights, the late Rashied Ali, Milford Graves, and his own mentors Max Roach and Art Blakey, Shoji’s solo drumming is a mesmerizing feat to witness, and displays a bewildering dexterity that’s both physically and psychically difficult to attribute to the motions of one individual player.

Sketching and tracing moiré-like patterns with his limbs, Shoji’s flurrying percussive vernacular is disciplined and virtuosic, while remaining spirited and idiosyncratic. Intricate cross-patterns and superimposed timings bubble up and collide with furious detail, subsiding in cyclical and funky grace before erupting again with colourful exuberance.
His adroit Octopus-like beats and fizzy punk rhythms have been heard in a countless array of collaborative recordings with the esteemed likes of late pioneering guitarist, Derek Bailey, Acid Mothers Temple’s Kawabata Makoto, Fushitsusha’s Keiji Haino, Eugene Chadbourne, and cult Japanese psychers High Rise. His work has also appeared on renowned labels, P.S.F. and Improvised Music from Japan.

www.shojihano.com

NATIONAL TOUR

Christchurch
29 September 2009
High Street Project
8pm
with Reuben Derrick, IRD, Adam Willetts

Dunedin
1 October 2009
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
8pm
with Lee Noyes, Rory Macmurdo, Alex Mackinnon, Peter Porteous

2 October 2009
Workshop
University of Otago School of Musis
2:30pm

Auckland
10 October 2009
Wine Cellar Lounge
8pm
with Paul Buckton, Jeff Henderson, Chris O’Connor, Dean Roberts, Clinton Watkins, Paul Winstanley

11 October 2009
Workshop
Wine Cellar Lounge
6pm

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