Click here to read the Fifteen Questions Interview by this internet music platform to Junko Ueda and in relation with the PoiL Ueda project, in which she joins with Lyonnaise contemporary rock group PoiL in the the PoiL Ueda project.
On 16 March 2023 at 18:00, the Duo Ueda Offermans performs at the Festival de Cultura Japonesa ‘Nippon Bunka-sai’ organised by the University of Murcia, Spain. See more program information here.
Click here to listen to the one hour interview with Junko Ueda by Charlie Crooijmans of the Dutch Radio Wira Wiri (in English)..
On the 3rd March 2023, the first album (CD and LP) of PoiL Ueda will be released. You can order the CD and LP at poil.bandcamp.com.
About the Album ‘PoiL Ueda’: Unexpected encounter between Junko Ueda, eminent figure of the Japanese medieval epic storytelling, whose warm and profound voice summons the terrestrial energies and the organic madness of the monster PoiL practicing with cosmic rock without net. Poil Ueda detonates the limits of rock and world music. By the magic and respect of the "Ma (間)," the two universes mesh and converge in perfect osmosis. The album opens with Kujô-Shakujô, a Buddhist shômyô chant practiced by monks to ward off evil spirits. The second part of the album plunges us into the naval battle of Dan no Ura and the grievous decline of the imperial Heike clan facing the Genji clan. Junko's stories surf freely on PoiL’s tumultuous wave pulsing with brashness and precision.
PoiL Ueda appears in the showcase of the WOMEX 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 20 October 2022 at 23:15 in Capitólio Stage.
More info: www.womex.com
On 18 July 2022, the concert of Duo Ueda Offermans is held at Modern Art Museum of the Abbey of Fontevraud, in the Loire Valley, France on the occasion of the exhibition of Claude Monet. More info: www.fontevraud.fr/en/
Junko Ueda participates with her traditional biwa music in the project ‘Xenakis Birthday Party’ at the Belvedere 21 (contemporary art museum) in Vienna on 18 June 2022 as part of the Wiener Festwochen. The project is to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the composer Iannis Xenakis. Reinhold Friedl (musician, composer and director of the ensemble Zeitkratzer) is curating a celebration on a grand scale.
More info: www.festwochen.at/en/we-bear-the-light-of-the-earth
Junko Ueda is performing biwa in the animation film called ‘Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles’. The show starts streaming on 28 April 2022 on Netflix. The music is composed by Los Angels based composer Aiko Fukushima. Here below you can see the official trailer at YouTube.
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