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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 Claude Monet exhibition. More info: www.fontevraud.fr

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

• 4 June 2022, Le Brise Glace, Annecy (FR)
• 5 June 2022, Jazz au Lavoir, Les Vans (FR)
• 8 July 2022, Z Bau, Nuremberg (DE)
• 9 July 2022, Pohoda Festival, Slovakia
• 19 August 2022, Malguénac Festival (FR)

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.

• 6 April 2022, Satellite, Lausanne (CH)
• 7.April 2022, IG Industriestrasse, Luzern (CH)
• 8.April 2022, KlangFarben, Kufstein (AT)
• 9.April 2022, Les Abattoirs SMAC, Bourgoin Jallieu (FR)
• 22 April 2022, Roadburn Festival at Paradox, Tilburg (NL)

• 2 March 2022, La Cave 12, Geneva (CH)
• 3 March 2022, Le Périscope, Lyon (FR)
• 4 March 2022, Sudhaus, Basel (CH)
• 5 March 2022, Brass - Centre Culturel de Forest, Brussels (BE)

Project ‘PoiL Ueda’ - PoiL (Lyonnaise contemporary rock band) and Junko Ueda (biwa/voice) - has another new live video of ‘Kokô - Final scene of Ataka’ from their concert at Théâtre de la Renaissance in Oullins in October 14th 2021.

On 12 December 2021, at 18:00: a solo performance at Atrium na Žižkově, Prague, Czech Republic. The program included:
- Dan-no-Ura, traditional biwa music
- Yoshitsune, traditional biwa music
- Tenmetsu, (composed by Czech composer Jiří Lukeš) for biwa and voice, premiere performance.
See more info at Atrium na Žižkově, Prague.

On the 3 November 2021, Duo Ueda Offermans performs at Rietberg Museum in Zurich on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Japanese medieval narrations depicted in the arts’, with subtitling by musicologist Mr. Heinz-Dieter Reese. The program included:

• Atsumori, Japanese traditional biwa music, solo
• Dan-no-Ura, Japanese traditional biwa music, arranged for biwa, voice and flute
• Yoshitsune, Japanese traditional biwa music, solo
• Murasaki-no-Ue, from Tale of Genji, composed by Junko Ueda for biwa, voice and flute.

See more info at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich.

Project ‘PoiL Ueda’ - PoiL (Lyonnaise contemporary rock band) and Junko Ueda (biwa/voice) - has a new live video of 'Dan no Ura' of their concert at Théâtre de la Renaissance in Oullins in October 14th 2021.

• 2 October 2021, La Baie des Singes - L’apire (Cournon, FR)
• 5 October 2021, Punctum - Krásovka (Prague, CZ)
• 6 October 2021, Café Wagner (Jena, DE)
• 7 October 2021, Zukunft am Ostkreuz (Berlin, DE)
• 8 October 2021, Freakshow Artrock Festival (Würzburg, DE)
• 9 October 2021, Secret Show (Netzschkau, DE)
• 14 October 2021, Théâtre de la Renaissance (Lyon, FR)
• 15 October 2021, Editions du Pressing (Bouguenais, FR)
• 16 October 2021, Altantique Jazz Festival (Brest, FR)
• 27 October 2021, Bee-Flat (Bern, CH)
• 28 October 2021, La Malterie (Lille, FR)
• 29 October 2021, Worm (Rotterdam, NL)
• 30 October 2021, MS Stubnitz (Hamburg, DE)
• 31 October 2021, Patronaat (Haarlem - NL)

Project ‘PoiL Ueda’ - Poil (Lyonnaise contemporary rock band) and Junko Ueda (biwa/voice) - demo music can be listed on YouTube.

• Antoine Arnera - keyboard
• Boris Cassone - guitar
• Benoit Lecomte - accoustic bass, composition
• Guilhem Meier - drums
• Junko Ueda - satsuma biwa, voice

• 16 & 17 July 2021, Concert - ‘Ancestral Modernism: ‘Stones - Strings - Stories’, Ying Hsueh Chen (Percussion/concept), Tony di Napoli (stone/litophone), Dawda Jaberteh (Kora/voice), Junko Ueda (biwa/voice) at Christianshavns Beboerhus, Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2021 (DK)
• 17 September 2021, Solo concert - traditional biwa music at Festival Les Détours de Babel (Grenoble, FR)
• 19 September 2021, Solo concert - traditional biwa music at Festival Les Détours de Babel (Grenoble, FR)
• 22 September 2021, Concert - ‘PoiLUeda’ - Poil (Lyonnaise rock band) and Junko Ueda (biwa/voice), project ‘Yoshitsune’ at Festival Les Détours de Babel (Grenoble, FR)
• 23 September 2021, Solo concert - traditional biwa music at Festival Les Détours de Babel (Grenoble, FR)
• 2 October 2021, Concert - ‘PoiLUeda’, project ‘Yoshitsune’ at Baie des Singes (Cournon, FR)
• 6 October 2021, Concert - ‘PoiLUeda’, project ‘Yoshitsune’ at Café Wagner (Jena, DE)
• 7 October 2021, Concert - ‘PoiLUeda’, project ‘Yoshitsune’ at Zukunft am Ostkreuz (Berlin, DE)
• 8 October 2021, Concert - ‘PoiLUeda’, project ‘Yoshitsune’ at Freakshow Festival (Würzburg, DE)
• 14 October 2021, Concert - ‘PoiLUeda’, project ‘Yoshitsune’ at Théâtre de la Renaissance (Lyon, FR)
• 16 October 2021, Concert - ‘PoiLUeda’, project ‘Yoshitsune’ at Altantique Jazz Festival (Brest, FR)
• 27 October 2021, Concert - ‘PoiLUeda’, project ‘Yoshitsune’ at B-Flat (Bern, CH)
• 28 October 2021, Concert - ‘PoiLUeda’, project ‘Yoshitsune’ at Brass (Brussels, BE)
• 29 October 2021, Concert - ‘PoiLUeda’, project ‘Yoshitsune’ at TOR9 (Bremen, DE)
• 30 October 2021, Concert - ‘PoiLUeda’, project ‘Yoshitsune’ at MS Stubnitz (Hamburg, DE)
• 31 October 2021, Concert - ‘PoiLUeda’, project ‘Yoshitsune’ at Patronaat (Haarlem, NL)
• 3 November 2021, Duo Ueda Offermans concert at Rietberg Museum (Zurich, CH)