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
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ふーちんギド

19:30/20:00
2000円

March 20th

Live Bar AJA Nakano Sakaue

MARCOS BROTHERS BAND
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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".

ふーちんギド FU-CHING-GIDO

I had thought about writing in depth about our new band, and all the challenges which come with playing in a tuba/drums duo. 

But forget all that. Yes, performing like this is a absolute tightrope walk, but the most important thing everybody should know is that Fu-ching is an amazing musician, and this band rocks!

On Tuesday night at Chikyuya, we're opening for The Space Baa, and I  promise you this, we'll be giving it everything we've got!