A couple of major summer festivals plus the usual Blue Note/Billboard Live gigs. And in-store events. And a music movie. All good.
Rock in Japan Festival 2015
Kaori Kobayashi @ Tower Records Shibuya
Love & Mercy, an excellent biopic on Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys
Love & Mercy trailer.
And an all-night event “Sonicmania” held as a pre-event of “Summer Sonic 2015“. I went the night I came back from Bulgaria to see Marilyn Manson and the Prodigy.
Then Gilbert O’Sullivan at Billboard Live Tokyo.
A press conference announcing the release of a new solo violin album by esteemed violinist Narimichi Kawabata on which he performed a violin sonata written for him by composer Takashi Niigaki, a former “ghostwriter” for infamous Mamoru Samuragochi, followed by a Kawabata – Niigaki duo performance.
Shakatak @ Billboard Live Tokyo
Matt Bianco @ Blue Note Tokyo
Fire Horns @ Motion Blue Yokohama
The Man with Charlie Kosei in-store event @ Tower Records Shibuya
The Man with Charlie Kosei @ Billboard Live Tokyo
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