New Release- チャラン・ポ・ランタン

こないだチャラン・ポ・ランタンとレコーディングをしました！

ギド、小春、もも、チューバ。

チャラン・ポ・ランタンの NEW RELEASE『借りもの協奏』の 『恋のバカンス【ザ・ピーナッツ　のカバー】』にお邪魔ました！

CHARAN-PO-RANTAN "借りもの協奏" ("Karimono Kyousou") (AVEX TRAX 2016)

(Guest on Track 4, "Koi no Bakansu") BUY IT HERE

PVもあります！

The other day I did some recording with Charan-Po-Rantan! I'm a guest on their cover of The Peanut's "Koi no Bakansu" on their new release "Karimono Kyousou". You can buy it at the link above, and you can check out the video!

Summer Touring

Hello!
This summer I'll be getting out and about, touring quite a bit, including Mongolia and South Korea, with FU-CHING-GIDO, two countries I've never played in before, so that's all very exciting.
Here's my schedule up until July. There may be some extra dates coming in, so I'll do my best to keep it updated. You can keep up with my live schedule HERE.
And not to forget, FU-CHING-GIDO will tour Japan for the first time in October. More details HERE!
Hope to see you out there somewhere!

MAY

13- FU-CHING-GIDO w/tipsipúca+, Csiga Jidanda
mona records, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo

16- Orquesta Libre + Rolly
TakuTaku, Kyoto

17- Orquesta Libre + Rolly
Tokyo, Nagoya

28- Csiga Jidanda + Gideon Juckes
Gallery Mus-soh and Zuzu, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo

JUNE

4- Jinta La Mvta
22nd Jüdisches Filmfestival Opening Ceremony, Potsdam, Germany

5- Jinta La Mvta
WABE Berlin, Germany

6- Jinta La Mvta
22nd Jüdisches Filmfestival, Brandenburg, Germany

12- Miwazow Matsuri vol.5
Star Pines Cafe, Kichijoji, Tokyo

15- Orquesta Libre
Pit Inn, Shinjuku, Tokyo

23- FU-CHING-GIDO
Izakaya "Haruki", Seoul, South Korea

25- FU-CHING-GIDO
Playtime Festival 2016, Gachuurt, Mongolia

JULY

9/10- Orquesta Libre
Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Denmark, (Full details to follow)

12- Orquesta Libre
Porgy and Bess, Vienna, Austria

13/14/15- Orquesta Libre
Cafe Museum, Passau, Germany

23- Orquesta Libre & Rolly

Fuji Rock, Café de Paris

プライベートレッスン

Catch up!

Hello dear friends and followers! Apologies for a lack of blog posts recently. My time has been taken up with a couple of very exciting projects.

Firstly, I just recently finished a 4 month-long theatre production at Bunkamura, "Hyokkori Hyoutanima" (Floating Gourd Island). This marked my 7th production with the amazing Kushida Kazuyoshi, and it was a stimulating, exciting and beautiful experience. I'm missing the family feeling I had with the wonderful actors, crew and staff.

And my other big project is the "FU-CHING-GIDO Asia Tour 2016". This June, we'll be heading off for Mongolia to play the Playtime 2016 festival, via Korea, and soon to be followed by our Japan leg, including Nagoya and Osaka. For more information, and to find out how you can get involved, click HERE

So many exciting things on the horizon this year, including some trips to Europe and the release of a really great album, "Rock Opera!" by Orquesta Libre and Rolly, out on March 23rd. Watch this space!

For up to date FU-CHING-GIDO news, check out our

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KABOOM! See you April 26th baby!

Nerima Tea Club

Tonight, Nerima Tea Club played at Otoya-kintoki in Nishi-Ogikubo, on our second double-bill with the Iizuka Naoko, Fukushima Hisao, Kosmas Kapitsa Trio. They sounded crystal clear and really dynamic tonight, and I really recommend checking out these wonderful musicians. We really enjoy sharing the bill with them too, they're lovely people and I'm sure we'll do another gig together soon. 

Nerima Tea Club sounded really warm and felt so good tonight, it felt really close like family. I think this is probably because we rehearsed yesterday then afterwards I cooked some dinner for the band and friends. (Pizza frita and sea urchin spaghetti, if you're interested! Send me a message if you'd like the recipe!)

It was so fun for the band to break bread and have some drinks together. Maybe this can become a pre-gig tradition? 

We don't gig often these days, but when we do, I'm reminded that forming a Japanese Renaissance Funk Band really WAS a good idea. 

There are plans afoot for our next gig, and we might make it a Tupperware party beforehand next time!

THE FU-CHING-GIDO ALBUM

I'm delighted to be able to announce that FU-CHING-GIDO will be releasing our debut album on April 26th, with a release party in Tokyo at Gee-ge in Shibuya, with support from the wonderful Baron. 

We'll also be releasing the album in a variety of digital formats internationally via Bandcamp. You can expect to be hearing lots more from us before April, and maybe even the odd snippet of music!

If you're in Tokyo on April 26th, please come, give us your support and join the celebration, it's going to be a great night!

Upcoming gigs

Hello!
Long time no blog! Apologies, I've been completely snowed under, mixing and producing the debut album by FU-CHING-GIDO, my band with the wonderful drummer Fu-ching. The release is imminent, and I'll no doubt be going crazy publicising it, so you'll be hearing plenty about it. We're also planning an album release party, which is looking like it should be a really great night. I'll be letting you know all about that one very soon too.
And I've been a bit useless about updating my latest releases and discography too. I'll soon do a big post and bring it all up to date. There have been some nice things I've been involved with recently, including two releases by Cicala Mvta.

Anyhoo, in the near future I have a couple of gigs I'd like to tell you about.

First up, on February 4th, is a FU-CHING-GIDO gig at Yellow Vision in Asagaya, opening for a great band, Pachikuri Elegance, led by the great bassist Higo Hiroshi. Fu-ching and I will be giving it our all, and fingers crossed, we might even have a new song!

Following that, on February 7th, my ancient funk band, Nerima Tea Club will be playing with the fantastic Iizuka Naoko, Fukushima Hisao + Kosmas Kopitza Trio. We had such a great time sharing the bill last year at Cafe Flying Teapot, that we decided we had to do it again!

Do come along and say hello!

Nerima Tea Club Double-bill!

August 30th

Ekoda café FLYING TEAPOT

NERIMA TEA CLUB 

meets the 

飯塚直 / 福島久雄 / KosmasKapitza TRIO

19:30 open 20:00 start

2000円 + order

Nerima Tea Club

Gideon Juckes - tuba

Yoshigaki Yasuhiro - percussion

Tatsumi Kogoro - trumpet

Komori Keiko - bass clarinet

Ohkuchi Shunsuke - accordion

飯塚直 / 福島久雄 / KosmasKapitza TRIO

飯塚直 Nao Iizuka/recorders (たて笛) 

福島久雄 HisaoFukushima/guitar

 コスマスカピッツァ KosmasKapitza/perc

Nerima Tea Club on YouTube

Hello there,
Nerima Tea Club have uploaded two tracks to YouTube! Check them out here:

FU-CHING-GIDO WEBSITE

FU-CHING-GIDO NEWS!

Announcing our new official website!

fu-ching-gido.com

There'll be regular new content and news, and you can leave us a message, so come and say hello!

ふーちんギドニュース！

ウエブサイトがはじまりました！

ライブ情報など新しいニュース諸々随時更新するのでチェックお願いします。そしてメッセージも是非残してくださいね〜！

Life, Death and Sclavis, Texier and Romano

The Human Condition has been on my mind since a very early age. I've always felt mortality to be a slightly absurd tragedy. The fact that, if we survive the everyday dangers of this life, at some point our bodies begin a slow but inevitable decay, until at some point we leave this planet and everything we know, and are swallowed back up into the universe in another form. Whatever one's personal belief, this seems to be a fact we can't escape.
Sometimes this gets me down. But on the other hand there is the occasional burst of human spirit which reaches me and completely pulls my head out of the mire.
Take these three musicians. Louis Sclavis, Henri Texier and Aldo Romano could already have been reasonably regarded as "seniors" when they recorded their first revelatory trio album "Carnet de Routes" in collaboration the great photographer Guy Le Querrec in 1994-95. That music blew my mind in '97 when it was released and I was lucky enough to see them live in '98 in London in a truly fantastic performance.
Today I found this concert onYouTube which was recorded 17 years after the release of the first album. And to my ears and heart, the music is 200 times more beautiful, deep, soulful, adventurous, dazzling and from the heart than it ever has been. In my opinion, these men are seniors in the true sense. They should be looked up to and learnt from. They are able to let their life experience flow naturally into their music, and it is really a treasure and a vibrant triumph over all the decay and stagnation which can be found in this life. Thank you gentlemen. Viva la musica!

NEWS! NERIMA TEA CLUB RETURN!

NEWS!!

3/22@ café MURIWUI

NERIMA TEA CLUB RETURN!

Gideon Juckes- tuba

芳垣安洋- perc.

小森慶子- b.cl.

辰巳小五郎- tpt.

大口俊輔- acc. 

19:00スタート

No Music Charge- 投げ銭制

FU-CHING-GIDO NEWS!

ふーちんギドNEWS!!!

3月20日
Live Bar AJA中野坂上
マルコスブラザース・バンド
+
ふーちんギド

19:30/20:00
2000円

March 20th

Live Bar AJA Nakano Sakaue

MARCOS BROTHERS BAND
+
FU-CHING-GIDO

doors 19:30
start 20:00
admission ¥2000

New Release: Kuroshitsuji (Original Soundtrack)

I have a new release. 「黒執事」オリジナル・サウンドトラック（O.S.T）Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) Original Soundtrack. It's some pretty heavy and dark stuff for a mainstream action film! You can hear some clips and buy it HERE

Main Theme HERE

Recent Releases

Hello! I've a couple of releases to tell you about which came out at the end of last year. The run up to the New Year seemed to speed up into a complete blur, and I've found myself crash-landed in January and not at all up-to-date.

First of all is a big one. Orquesta Libre's new album "Plays Duke"

Featuring special guests tap dancer RONxII and pianist Suga Dairo, the band explores the music of Duke Ellington. The arrangements are really quite amazing to play, and arrangers Aoki Taisei and Suzuki Masato have started writing some extremely tricky, high and quiet tuba parts. This is my first recording made on my F tuba, which seems to fit this band well.
You can read a review which describes my tuba solo as a "suggestive muted trombone solo" (erm, nice one...) HERE
And you can buy it HERE
And if you can't manoeuvre through the Japanese website, well, the best advice I can give is to come and see us on this summer's European tour and pick one up in person! (More tour details as they emerge, watch this space!)

The next release is the Official Soundtrack of the recent NTV Drama 「東京バンドウアゴン」"Tokyo Bandwagon".

It's another fantastic bit of soundtrack writing by Kaneko Takahiro (金子隆博), this time featuring a lot of New Orleans funky brass. 
You can check it out and buy it HERE

Finally, here's a new release which I'm actually on time reporting!
18th January sees the Japanese Cinema release of the live-action film adaptation of 黒執事,  Kuroshitsuji or Black Butler. This was the first action film soundtrack I've done (the other films mostly having been comedies), and it was amazingly scary, exciting and hard work. Brass-wise, it was scored for 2 trumpets, 4 horns, 6 trombones and 2 tubas (the 2nd tuba played on about a quarter of it). These were then double-tracked, and the resulting noise was absolutely apocalyptic! I look forward to hearing the finished recording. Here's the trailer. 

ふーちんギド FU-CHING-GIDO Return!

NEWS!
ふーちんギド ARE BACK!
2月13日 Egg-man Tokyo East,
DRUM & TUBA オーバーロード NIGHT!!

ふーちんギド FU-CHING-GIDO Live Clips

Last week we unveiled our new duo FU-CHING-GIDO
at our live debut, opening for The Space Baa at Chikyuya in Tokyo. Fu-ching and I were both really nervous, to be presenting something new, and because our set is so tricky to play! But the audience reaction was so great, we soon lost our nerves and had a great time.
We're working on our next gig, hopefully in January or February, watch this space!
In the meantime, here's a couple of songs from that night, "Fire" and "La Critica".