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Maher Shalal Hash Baz is the artistic alter ego of Tori Kudo (????), a Japanese naivist composer and musician. The name is taken from Maher-shalal-hash-baz in the Book of Isaiah, and translates roughly as "Hurrying to the spoil, he has made haste to the plunder."
Tori Kudo has been cagey about details of his life before MSHB. He was once a member of a shadowy, revolutionary political party in Japan, although he has dissociated himself from politics since becoming a Jehovah's Witness. He also works as a ceramicist.
He claims to have played classical and jazz piano, as well as playing organ in a Protestant church. His other musical influences included T. Rex and saxophonist Steve Lacy. He and his wife Reiko Kudo joined a band called Worst Noise when they moved to Tokyo; other members dropped out, leaving Tori and Reiko as a duo, known simply as Noise. Under this name they released an album called Emperor.
The impetus for Maher Shalal Hash Baz came when Tori met euphonium player Hiroo Nakazaki on a building site, and found that they shared an interest in the music of Mayo Thompson and Syd Barrett. Apart from the core trio (Tori on guitar and vocals, Reiko as vocalist, Hir [Read more]
Tori Kudo has been cagey about details of his life before MSHB. He was once a member of a shadowy, revolutionary political party in Japan, although he has dissociated himself from politics since becoming a Jehovah's Witness. He also works as a ceramicist.
He claims to have played classical and jazz piano, as well as playing organ in a Protestant church. His other musical influences included T. Rex and saxophonist Steve Lacy. He and his wife Reiko Kudo joined a band called Worst Noise when they moved to Tokyo; other members dropped out, leaving Tori and Reiko as a duo, known simply as Noise. Under this name they released an album called Emperor.
The impetus for Maher Shalal Hash Baz came when Tori met euphonium player Hiroo Nakazaki on a building site, and found that they shared an interest in the music of Mayo Thompson and Syd Barrett. Apart from the core trio (Tori on guitar and vocals, Reiko as vocalist, Hir [Read more]
Maher Shalal Hash Baz is the artistic alter ego of Tori Kudo (????), a Japanese naivist composer and musician. The name is taken from Maher-shalal-hash-baz in the Book of Isaiah, and translates roughly as "Hurrying to the spoil, he has made haste to the plunder."
Tori Kudo has been cagey about details of his life before MSHB. He was once a member of a shadowy, revolutionary political party in Japan, although he has dissociated himself from politics since becoming a Jehovah's Witness. He also works as a ceramicist.
He claims to have played classical and jazz piano, as well as playing organ in a Protestant church. His other musical influences included T. Rex and saxophonist Steve Lacy. He and his wife Reiko Kudo joined a band called Worst Noise when they moved to Tokyo; other members dropped out, leaving Tori and Reiko as a duo, known simply as Noise. Under this name they released an album called Emperor.
The impetus for Maher Shalal Hash Baz came when Tori met euphonium player Hiroo Nakazaki on a building site, and found that they shared an interest in the music of Mayo Thompson and Syd Barrett. Apart from the core trio (Tori on guitar and vocals, Reiko as vocalist, Hiroo with his trusty euphonium), the lineup has always been fluid.
After a couple of self-released cassette albums, the Japanese Org label released Maher Goes To Gothic Country (1991) and the 83-track box set Return Visit To Rock Mass (1996). The group's profile outside Japan became much higher when Stephen McRobbie of The Pastels signed them to his Geographic label. They have released two albums on Geographic: the compilation From a Summer to Another Summer (An Egypt To Another Egypt) (2000) and the 41-track Blues du Jour (2003); plus a number of EPs on various labels, including Souvenir De Mauve (Majikick, 1999), Maher on Water (Geographic, 2002), Faux Depart (Yik Yak, 2003) and Live Aoiheya January 2003 (Chapter Music, 2005).
Tori Kudo has resisted defining the sound of his band, although in an interview with Tim Footman in Careless Talk Costs Lives magazine (August 2002) he declared "I am punk." There are also elements of folk, psychedelia and free jazz; the band's tendency to ask members of the audience to join in adds a sense of danger in live performance. Perhaps the best description comes from his own sleeve notes to From A Summer To Another Summer: "Error in performance dominates MSHB cassette which is like our imperfect life."
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Tori Kudo has been cagey about details of his life before MSHB. He was once a member of a shadowy, revolutionary political party in Japan, although he has dissociated himself from politics since becoming a Jehovah's Witness. He also works as a ceramicist.
He claims to have played classical and jazz piano, as well as playing organ in a Protestant church. His other musical influences included T. Rex and saxophonist Steve Lacy. He and his wife Reiko Kudo joined a band called Worst Noise when they moved to Tokyo; other members dropped out, leaving Tori and Reiko as a duo, known simply as Noise. Under this name they released an album called Emperor.
The impetus for Maher Shalal Hash Baz came when Tori met euphonium player Hiroo Nakazaki on a building site, and found that they shared an interest in the music of Mayo Thompson and Syd Barrett. Apart from the core trio (Tori on guitar and vocals, Reiko as vocalist, Hiroo with his trusty euphonium), the lineup has always been fluid.
After a couple of self-released cassette albums, the Japanese Org label released Maher Goes To Gothic Country (1991) and the 83-track box set Return Visit To Rock Mass (1996). The group's profile outside Japan became much higher when Stephen McRobbie of The Pastels signed them to his Geographic label. They have released two albums on Geographic: the compilation From a Summer to Another Summer (An Egypt To Another Egypt) (2000) and the 41-track Blues du Jour (2003); plus a number of EPs on various labels, including Souvenir De Mauve (Majikick, 1999), Maher on Water (Geographic, 2002), Faux Depart (Yik Yak, 2003) and Live Aoiheya January 2003 (Chapter Music, 2005).
Tori Kudo has resisted defining the sound of his band, although in an interview with Tim Footman in Careless Talk Costs Lives magazine (August 2002) he declared "I am punk." There are also elements of folk, psychedelia and free jazz; the band's tendency to ask members of the audience to join in adds a sense of danger in live performance. Perhaps the best description comes from his own sleeve notes to From A Summer To Another Summer: "Error in performance dominates MSHB cassette which is like our imperfect life."
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dogr (David Michael DiGregorio) is a musician currently based in New York. He has a background in 16-mm filmmaking, informed by US structuralists from the 1970's. This, combined with influences from baroque, choral gospel, pop, Korean and American folk, and electro-acoustic music, inspire him to create tectonic space through layering voice and performing melismatic storytelling.
His songs tell stories of people and their great loves sprawling out over bridges, cityscapes, and farmlands; men turning to monsters; rooms that speak people's thoughts; beast-vision; aged cities; and haunted voices of our animal progenitors.
dogr has collaborated often with visual artists such as Sung Hwan Kim and Jewyo Rhii.
dogr has released many handmade, home-produced, limited-edition records, alongside 16mm films. Additionally, IN KOREAN WILDS AND VILLAGES, 2009, produced by Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars, can be heard on Sonig Records, Köln. ONE FROM IN THE ROOM: DOG I KNEW, created with Sung Hwan Kim, was broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk and published by Intermedium Records, both in Bavaria, in 2010. It won the Karl Sczuka Förderpreis in 2010 sponsored by Südwestrundfunk, and was presen [Read more]
His songs tell stories of people and their great loves sprawling out over bridges, cityscapes, and farmlands; men turning to monsters; rooms that speak people's thoughts; beast-vision; aged cities; and haunted voices of our animal progenitors.
dogr has collaborated often with visual artists such as Sung Hwan Kim and Jewyo Rhii.
dogr has released many handmade, home-produced, limited-edition records, alongside 16mm films. Additionally, IN KOREAN WILDS AND VILLAGES, 2009, produced by Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars, can be heard on Sonig Records, Köln. ONE FROM IN THE ROOM: DOG I KNEW, created with Sung Hwan Kim, was broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk and published by Intermedium Records, both in Bavaria, in 2010. It won the Karl Sczuka Förderpreis in 2010 sponsored by Südwestrundfunk, and was presen [Read more]
dogr (David Michael DiGregorio) is a musician currently based in New York. He has a background in 16-mm filmmaking, informed by US structuralists from the 1970's. This, combined with influences from baroque, choral gospel, pop, Korean and American folk, and electro-acoustic music, inspire him to create tectonic space through layering voice and performing melismatic storytelling.
His songs tell stories of people and their great loves sprawling out over bridges, cityscapes, and farmlands; men turning to monsters; rooms that speak people's thoughts; beast-vision; aged cities; and haunted voices of our animal progenitors.
dogr has collaborated often with visual artists such as Sung Hwan Kim and Jewyo Rhii.
dogr has released many handmade, home-produced, limited-edition records, alongside 16mm films. Additionally, IN KOREAN WILDS AND VILLAGES, 2009, produced by Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars, can be heard on Sonig Records, Köln. ONE FROM IN THE ROOM: DOG I KNEW, created with Sung Hwan Kim, was broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk and published by Intermedium Records, both in Bavaria, in 2010. It won the Karl Sczuka Förderpreis in 2010 sponsored by Südwestrundfunk, and was presented at the Donaueshinger Musiktage in the same year.
Recent performances include Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, 2011; the New Museum, New York, 2009 & 2010; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, 2009; Gallery TPW/Images Festival, Toronto, 2009; Établissement d'en face projects, Brussel, 2009; Insa Art Space, Seoul, 2007; Gallery 27, Uiwang, Korea, 2007; De Appel, Amsterdam, 2007; STEIM, Amsterdam, 2006; BAK, Utrecht, 2006.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
His songs tell stories of people and their great loves sprawling out over bridges, cityscapes, and farmlands; men turning to monsters; rooms that speak people's thoughts; beast-vision; aged cities; and haunted voices of our animal progenitors.
dogr has collaborated often with visual artists such as Sung Hwan Kim and Jewyo Rhii.
dogr has released many handmade, home-produced, limited-edition records, alongside 16mm films. Additionally, IN KOREAN WILDS AND VILLAGES, 2009, produced by Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars, can be heard on Sonig Records, Köln. ONE FROM IN THE ROOM: DOG I KNEW, created with Sung Hwan Kim, was broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk and published by Intermedium Records, both in Bavaria, in 2010. It won the Karl Sczuka Förderpreis in 2010 sponsored by Südwestrundfunk, and was presented at the Donaueshinger Musiktage in the same year.
Recent performances include Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, 2011; the New Museum, New York, 2009 & 2010; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, 2009; Gallery TPW/Images Festival, Toronto, 2009; Établissement d'en face projects, Brussel, 2009; Insa Art Space, Seoul, 2007; Gallery 27, Uiwang, Korea, 2007; De Appel, Amsterdam, 2007; STEIM, Amsterdam, 2006; BAK, Utrecht, 2006.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
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