Our old friend the shakuhachi player, Koichi Yoshida, and his band Yugao have an autumn show at Zac Baran this weekend and the wonderful flamenco dancer Carmen Alvarez is back from Spain to join the performance! You can see some clips of Carmen in action with Yugao from a performance last year here. A little birdy tells me that Koichi is planning to move to France soon... so … [Read more...]
Yugao & Carmen Alvarez
“Flamenco is a gypsy/Andalusian art with its own language, which is spreading throughout the whole world, from Andalusia to Japan, and reaching the depths of all hearts without discrimination.” - Carmen Alvarez Another fantastic show from Yugao at Parker House Roll last night, and it was made all the more special when their special surprise guest, Carmen Alvarez, joined … [Read more...]
In Search of… Vinyl
I have previously written about the record shop Prototype, managed by my good friend Yoshida-kun but I've been thinking it's time I added a few more Kyoto record shops to the list. I asked friend and collector Nana H. (that's her on the left spinning discs at Joao) to give me some pointers and she recommended the following stores. Bootsy's A pure, minimalist store without … [Read more...]
