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Japan Nightporter Party August 22nd 2009

We are once again holding a gathering in London, click the banner above for more information!



New Mick Karn album "The Concrete Twin" and Bowie cover "Ashes To Ashes".

Mick's new album "The Concrete Twin" will be released in September. It includes 10 brand new tracks; the titles can be read at Mick's official site here. The release of the David Bowie tribute album on Warchild that includes Mick's cover of "Ashes To Ashes" has been postponed until February 2010 due to some of the artists schedules not permitting an earlier release. Featured artists will include Radiohead, Carla Bruni and Charlotte Gainsbourg and will include Mick's version of Ashes to Ashes.

Richard Barbieri live show announced!

July 10th 2009, The Bush Hall, London. Tickets are £13.50 and are available from Ticketweb and Wegottickets. Rich is appearing as part of a K-Scope label event also featuring The Engineers. The keyboard whiz will also be playing UK live dates as a member of The Porcupine Tree in October 2009. Recently, Rich released the new album "Stranger Inside" and performed shows in Australia with The Bays. To listen to some exclusive music (those web page sounds can not be heard anywhere else) and to find out more about his recent projects, visit richardbarbieri.net


New David Sylvian album "Manafon" due for release Summer 2009!


From davidsylvian.com: "We’re preparing for the release of David’s new album ‘Manafon’. It’s a powerfully bold, uncompromising work featuring contributions from Evan Parker, John Tilbury, Keith Rowe, Christian Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, and many more. We’ll be sharing more information on the release shortly".

You might also want to bookmark manafon.com

Steve Jansen news


A live recording of Steve Jansen in concert in Japan, called "The Occurrence Of Slope" is now available for download from Steve's website.

"recorded in tokyo in february 2008 this release features performances from jansen, (drums & keyboards), keigo oyamada - aka cornelius (gtrs), masakatsu takagi (piano & keyboards) and a string quartet led by seigen tokuzawa, and includes the entire music from 'slope' plus a live rendition of the 24 minute ambient piece 'ascent' (part of a series of works entitled 'swimming in qualia'). also included is the opening and closing music composed by jansen, as well as track segues only available previously on the dvd. the download is also bundled with credit sheets designed by chris bigg."

Steve also contributes to new album releases by Yukihiro Takahashi and John Foxx. More details at Steve's news site

Takahashi has also just released a remastered and expanded version of his live album "A Night In The Next Life" in Japan which features Steve on drums and vocals. The show was recorded in 1991.

Masami Tsuchiya update

Masami is currently a member of Japanese rock "supergroup" Vitamin Q alongside Kazuhiko Kato (ex-Sadistic Mika Band), Ray Ohara (ex-Sadistic Mika Band), Gota Yashiki (ex-Melon) and vocalist Anza. Lots of information, sounds and pictures at their official site

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