Cabaret Avignon
Dec.19,2012 at Eschschloraque
Jan. 16,2014 at Feinkost Lampe, Hannover
Jim Avignon – Set, Masks, Compose, Sound&Vocal.
Yuko Matsuyama – Costume, Choreograph and dance.
Kunst, Konzert und LoFi-Performance. Sie werden durch den kleinen Laden tänzeln – die liebevoll-lebendigen Figuren aus dem Zeichenkosmos des Berliner Malers und Musikers Jim Avignon aka Neoangin. Die japanische Tänzerin Yuko Matsuyama wird all die komisch kaputten Typen zu Lofi-Rythmen, knuddeligen Bassläufen und subversiv-netten Songtexten choreografisch zum Leben erwecken. Ob verträumt – erzählerisch die mexikanische Malerin Frida Kahlo wiederauferstehen lassend, ob im wilden Polkaschritt als lebensgrosse Dollarmünze den Kapitalismus beerdigend oder als überlebensgrossen Cartooncharacter.
Turkish Band Baba Zula has over 50 collaborators all over the world,and I am very very happy to be one of them. On the live they also let me dance, I’m not Belly-dancer but they just make me free as if I were a bird. BabaZula has been the best friend of Eschschloraque, where I’ve perform almost every month. My first concert I’ve seen them was at Zoo in Berlin with the Berlin based special guitarist Alexander Hacke, their psychedelic music and the full smell of animals, so I actually couldn’t follow it.. I started loving their performance later in 2007, when they had their first concert in Tokyo Club Quatro with their core-collaborator Ceren Oykut and also the most beautiful Japanese belly dancer Nourah.
One day in 2011 I fall in love with a song called Cecon from the movie “Crossing The Bridge” from Fatin Akin. It kept in my head like a tinnitus and I thought if I could sing it in Japanese. With the kindly help by the original singer Brenna MacCrimmon, I started to sing the song Cecon. The Japanese Lyric is not as honest as the original Turkish lyric yet and I am still working on it, but each time I sing the song with them it moves me so much. One more song I’ve working on now is a song called Bir Sana Bir de Bana ( one for you, one for me). On the CD the song was also performed by Brenna MacCrimmon. The original text was made by Ceren Oykut‘s mother.
Upcoming and past Live
YENİ RAKI – SPIRIT OF ISTANBUL FEST 2016 Berlin, Germany YENİ RAKI – SPIRIT OF ISTANBUL FEST 2015 Berlin, Germany Fusion Fest 2014 Berlin, Germany Festival Les Musicavas 2013 Givry, France SommerFestival der Kulturen 2013 Stuttgart, Germany Baba Zula Live 2013 Lio Berlin, Germany YENİ RAKI – SPIRIT OF ISTANBUL FEST 2012 Berlin, Germany Fusion Fest 2012 Berlin, Germany
Performance With Murat Ertel ( BabaZula ) 30.08.2015 Haus Schwarzenberg Summerfest Murat Ertel (BabaZula), Edualdo Delgado Lopez, Jens Alers, & Yuko Matsuyama
1.7.2015 Festival Die Nächte des Ramadan CLUB SESSION.1 at ACUD Berlin Murat Ertel, Schneider TM & Yuko Matsuyama
Venue – Neurotitan shop & gallery – Haus Schwarzenberg e.V Exhibition Organized by Manabi Murata http://www.murataandfriends.de/ Collaborators Carlos Osatinsky, Fernando Nicolás Pelliccioli, Hironori Sugata, Ayako Toyama, Yuko Matsuyama Objet d’art – furniture : Bernard Agnias / Chez Rita Visuals: Linda Havenstein Detail The I dea behind the performance was that the occation of the first anniversary of the triple catastrophe in northern Japan in 2011. It was presented and collaborated with Pr. Hanada and his students from Münster School of Architecture. Photo Link
Sound & Movement Improvisation 『Nichijousahan -Pan de cada día-』
Venue – Neurotitan shop & gallery – Haus Schwarzenberg e.V
Collaborators
Mercedes del Rosario Appugliese、Ayako Toyama 、Yuko Matsuyama
Detail
Inspired by the book ( Nichijousahan / daily matter ) the famous „Hokusai-Manga“.
Represent the view point and our daily activity as a performance artist.
Sound & Movement Improvisation 『Shiritori』
Venue – Neurotitan shop & gallery – Haus Schwarzenberg e.V
Collaborators
Noriko Sasaki、Ayako Toyama 、Hironori Sugata、Yuko Matsuyama
Detail
The exhibition in the gallery, “Big Dushi Tales – Hoffman & Mashville ” has featured as co- collaborator in the performance event. “Image ping-pong”, the concept behind art project Mashville, has inspired the choice of the word, “SHIRITORI” as the central thread for the performance.SHIRITORI is a japanese word game where players create a new word from the last pert of the word spoken by the previous player. For example: Shiritori – ri-rice paper- per- personality… And over 70 audience came to enjoy the performance. Foto Link:
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Sound & Movement Improvisation『MADZARU Vol.2』
Venue – MicaMoca Project Berlin
Collaborator
Carlos Osatinsky, Fernando Nicolás Pelliccioli, Hironori Sugata, Yuko Matsuyama
Detail
The second performance in a series of improvised movement and sound pieces born out of the collaboration between musicians and dancers presented in the same room at the post- fabric space in the front of S-bahn station Wedding„MicaMoca – project berlin“. This time it was focused on the seven words which German-Japanese-English dictionalies showed out of the Japanese word “Madzaru“. „Isolate, Stair, Convine, Blend, Mix, Fusion, Dissolve“.
Sound & Dance Improvisation『MADZARU』
Venue – MicaMoca Project Berlin
Collaborator
Hironori Sugata, Hopek Quirin, Yuko Matsuyama
Detail
Through the music and the movement, we artists felt strongly connected with the old fabric space, that is why we used soil and stones. With the Japanese word „Madzaru/english „mazaru“ , our voice, movement, sound are blended/mixed/stird 25% to 100% in the space. The performance was represented through the dance festival “Cracks Punkt Tanz”, co-worked by AADK und MicaMoca Project Berlin. http://www.aadk.org/ Foto Link :