ALIENS DONT DANCE : FRANCESCO TRISTANO @ XEX NIHONBASHI

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ALIENS DONT DANCEは、
エレクトロニックミュージック、ビジュアルアート、そして未開拓の新しいメディアの最高峰に位置する、未だかつて無いイベントです。

音楽という要素と、美的感覚を今までにない最高の形で融合させ、進化させ続けます。

そして私たちADDの使命は、最高の海外アーティストと
才能溢れたローカルアーティストをコラボさせ、最高のステージを造り上げること。

実態は確実にそこにある。

ALIENS DONT DANCE is a true culmination of electronic music, visual art & new media with origins yet unknown. With the main feature being to keep a unique balance between the musical component & visual aesthetic, & to let them forge a bond in every step of the way. We have a responsibility to bring quality International Artists & fuse them together with the most enterprising local talent in putting on the very best show possible.

The truth is out there & ALIENS DONT DANCE but WE DO!!

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FRANCESCO TRISTANO

1981年ルクセンブルク生まれのフランチェスコ・トリスターノは地元ルクセンブルクやブリュッセル、パリなどの音楽学校で学んだ後、名門ジュリアード音楽院を卒業。2004年にオルレアン20世紀音楽国際ピアノコンクールを制して以来大きな注目を集める。プレトニョフ＆ロシア・ナショナル管との協奏曲集でペンタトーン・デビューを果たし、現在は現代音楽を更に掘り下げるためにバルセロナに居を構え創作活動に勤しんでいる。アゴリアとカール・クレイグに大きな影響を受けたと語る彼が、そのアゴリアが主宰するレーベル、インフィニから2007年に発表したのが『ノット・フォー・ピアノ』。さらに世界的に高名なレバノンの作曲家／ウード奏者マルセル・ハリーフェとの活動でも著名なラーミ・ハリーフェ、CASSIUS、PHOENIXのドラマーとしても世界的な名声を得ているエイメリック・ヴェストリヒとのユニットAUFGANG名義のアルバムもリリース。
同じく2010年、クラブ・シーンの最高峰に位置するアーティスト、カール・クレイグを迎えて、オリジナル・アルバム「idiosynkrasia （イディオシンクラシア）」を発表。
近年ではカール・クレイグ、モーリッツ・フォン・オズワルドとの活動が大きな注目を集めている。

フランスのピアノ・コンクールでグランプリを受賞。
ヨーロッパの若手実力派アーティストを選りすぐり結成される
“ライジング・スター・オーケストラ”にも選出されるなど、
その実力が認められた、今年２９歳の若き天才ピアニスト
フランチェスコ・トリスターノ。

そのルックスからヨーロッパでは
“美しきクラシック界の貴公子”と呼ばれ注目を集める存在でありながら、
ジュリアード音楽学院在籍時代にNYで体験したクラブ・ミュージックとの出会いを切っ掛けに、
新たな音楽世界へのチャレンジを開始。

近年では、カール・クレイグやモーリッツ・フォン・オズワルドとフランチェスコ・トリスターノ自身の３人によるライブ活動を開始し、自らもオリジナル作品をリリースするなど
一躍クラブ・シーンでも注目を集める存在です。

一方、クラシック界では世界最高峰と言われる音楽レーベル、ドイツ・グラモフォンからも作品を発表するなど、アーティスティックかつ、ジャンルレスな活動を展開。

ここ日本でも彼の存在が注目を集め始めています。

A close musical encounter of the third kind: that might be the most appropriate way to describe what the people on board The Space on July 18 2010 were lucky enough to experience. That night, a grand piano – let’s call it a UFO – had landed in the illustrious Ibiza club. At its helm: Francesco Tristano, not yet thirty and already a long-distance adventurer in sonic space. Also on board, in the DJ booth, was Carl Craig, controlling Ableton with the help of his Ipad. Carried away by the fervor of an audience in perfect osmosis, the duo flew higher and higher, eluding the borders between musical genres and giving a performance that has already gone down in Space’s history.
A few months earlier, in Detroit, a similar sighting had been reported: a grand(iose, of course) piano had settled for a week amidst an impressive number of machines and a no less impressive number of records, virtually
filling the studios of Planet E communications, Carl Craig’s label. For it was precisely there, in that stronghold of Detroit techno, that Francesco Tristano had chosen to record Idiosynkrasia, his third solo album for inFine´.

Although at first these two events may sound surprising, they are links in an inescapably coherent chain of events. After all, isn’t the piano the ancestor – and a pretty valiant one at that – of keyboards, synthesizers and the like, whose sounds are essential features of our nocturnal soundtracks? As such, isn’t it equally at home in a club as in a concert hall? Does it not belong just as much in Berghain as in Carnegie Hall? Most certainly, provided the aforementioned piano is in good hands... We’re in luck: Francesco Tristano’s hands have already proven, time and time again, how capable they are of taking the piano and, with it, the audience into previously unexplored territories.
Following a very classical course – from music academies to philharmonic orchestras – Francesco Tristano’s trajectory was to change radically when he became a student, in the early 2000s, at The Juilliard School in New York. It was also around this time that he discovered the city’s clubs, a whole parallel world: electronic music. A new avenue to explore, which Francesco, always hungry for experience, would rush into, shunning the beaten track. This new horizon he had discovered, and continues to pursue to this day, was the promise of a truly liberated form of music, impossible to narrow down to one (or more) specific genre(s); a kind of music that would also let the piano resonate differently, in the radiance of a new-found modernity.

In February 2005, a performance at the Bouffes du Nord (in Paris), rounded off by a dazzling version of Derrick May’s Strings Of Life, was to lead directly to the birth of the inFine´ label, which adopted an unconventional line from the outset, in tune with Francesco’s approach.
Since then, three solo albums have been released – Not For Piano (2007), produced by Murcof and Auricle Bio On (2008), mastered by Moritz Von Oswald – and Idiosynkrasia (2010) as well as 'Aufgang' (2009)', a trio formed by Francesco, Rami Khalife´ and Aymeric Westrich, who met during the New York years. At the crossroads of numerous musical sources – from techno to classical/contemporary music, not forgetting ambient – each record takes pathways that are both specific and convergent, leading into a realm of perpetual motion (a Tristanoman’s land?).

The tireless explorer that is Francesco Tristano returns this fall with a new solo album whose title, Idiosynkrasia, is an artistic manifesto. Fundamentally polychromatic, evolving ceaselessly from one mode to the next, Idiosynkrasia nevertheless proves to be perfectly coherent and reveals, in fine, an extra-large conception of music.
“I’m more and more convinced that there are no limits to music: one can always go one step further...”

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BEEZER

ビーザー
1965年、UK・ブリストル生まれ。ストリートの人々を撮るドキュメンタリー写真家。80年代前半に高校を中退後、テクニカルカレッジで写真を学びました。ブリストルのサウスミードにある喧嘩や暴力事件の多い男子校の様子をドキュメンタリーシリーズとしてまとめたのが最初の本です。現在の社会にも大きな影響を与えた音楽、アートのシーン、そして社会の出来事がひしめき合ったこの時代を記録したBeezerの写真集「ザ・ワイルドデイズ」は高い評価を得ています。この頃登場したアンダーグラウンドカルチャーを代表する、Massive Attack (Wild Bunch)、Mark Stewart、Tricky、Underworld、Todd Terry、Redmanらを写真におさめています。

　その後、彼はロンドンに拠点を移し、バルセロナやモロッコ、カイロ、ニューヨーク、東京、バヌアツ、ベトナム、タイなど、世界各国で精力的に活動を続けています。イギリスを代表する音楽雑誌「NME」や、ブリストル・バースエリアのカルチャー誌「Venue」など、数々の雑誌に写真を提供し、2009年にはブリストル・シティ・ミュージアム＆アート･ギャラリーや、マンチェスターのURBISなどで展覧会を行いました。

Like Chatterton, Cary Grant and Blackbeard The Pirate, Andrew ‘Beezer’ Beese was born in the city of Bristol.
In the early 1980’s, the Bristol music scene was burgeoning, both for live music and DJ-ing. During that time, which Beezer calls the Wild Dayz, Beezer documented that influential and fertile period of musical, artistic and social history – the result was an emerging underground youth culture that helped shape later mainstream lifestyles in the UK and the music generated in those years gave birth to artists such as Massive Attack, Roni Size, Smith & Mighty, Tricky, Mark Stewart, Nellee Hooper (produced Bjork, Madonna, U2, Soul ll Soul, Sinead O’Connor), all whose music and creative culture still influences the world today. This era was the focus of his acclaimed photo documentary book “The Wild Dayz”.

After the Wild Dayz period, Beezer moved to London, traveled to Barcelona, Morocco & Cairo. Since then, he has worked in New York, all over Asia and the South Pacific. Beezer has photographed for Venue magazine, the New Musical Express (NME) and more and has exhibited in the UK at the Bristol City Museum And Gallery, Arnofini, Manchester URBIS Gallery amongst others. His recent exhibition titled VOICES! at the Diesel Art Gallery in Shibuya, highlighted his work from the UK, Barcelona and Cairo.

Much of his work outside of his widely known Wild Dayz series is virtually unknown yet he is one of the best documentary photographic artists of the last 3 decades. He now shares his time between Bristol and Tokyo.
A new solo exhibition of his work to be called Tokyo Flaneur, will be launched in autumn 2012.

OPEN 23:00 : \3,500 DOOR / \2,500 RSVP

Sponsored By Belvedere

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VERY SPECIAL GUEST:

FRANCESCO TRISTANO (LIVE)

Supported By:
GROOVE PATROL
YUKI TSUKINAGA
QUE
ARON T
JAY ZIMMERMANN

Visual Aesthetic:
VJ YOU
LIGHTNING STORM

Photo Exhibition:
BEEZER

Art Direction:
SOUDESUNE

Dancers:
CANDYPOP

Pole Dancers:
NISHIO
AKI
NOZOMI
KEIKO
CHIKA
SATSUKI

Videography:
SELECTIVE PRESSURE

Photography:
MARK OXLEY

Supported By:
MUSIC:LX
XL ENERGY
UMAA

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