I was going to post "too bad AdventAlan doesn't sell Kenso anymore"...Originally Posted by AdventAlan
Good to see you've still got your contacts!
I was going to post "too bad AdventAlan doesn't sell Kenso anymore"...
Good to see you've still got your contacts!
I was looking for the dvd box and missed that boat.Cant find it anywhere
I saw it, but it was pricey. If you broke it down to cost per DVD, it made no sense, and I ain't poor, but...
But it's a nice well made box set. I thought the packaging from NEARfest was good, this is much better.
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Can you tell me where you saw it or was that in the past?
I "saw" it shortly after release. Someone in the USA was importing them specially, and I think it had a $200 price tag. If I think long enough, I can probably come up with who it was, but it wasn't a regular retailer, I don't think.
Audiophile Imports: mrfusion123@verizon.net or give Mike a call at 443-844-5020 to see if any distributors have any
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More info and some pics on the dvd-box: http://www.progressiveears.org/forum...er+of+eternity
Greetings,
FYI, KENSO is performing their "Life must go on nevertheless" concert at Club Citta' (near Tokyo) on November 3rd. Info (in Japanese) and ticket info can be found here:
http://clubcitta.co.jp/detail/2235.html
Please note that there is an option for people outside of Japan to purchase tickets here:
http://r-t.jp/kenso_en
Tickets have to be printed at a 7-Eleven in Japan, but there is one that's only a five-minute walk from the venue.
Cheers and it would be very cool to see some of you there,
Alan
Having to print tickets at a 7-11 is perhaps the weirdest detail for a concert I have ever read.
Please don't ask questions, just use google.
Never let good music get in the way of making a profit.
I'm only here to reglaze my bathtub.
The last few concerts I've been to, I've had to print out a whole 8" x 11" page and take it to gain admission.
Kenso, 7-11, Tokyo...
Sounds like a wild ride!!!
The Prog Corner
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
The perfect gig would be Kenso playing INSIDE the 7-11!
https://kenso.exblog.jp/30146692/
Great line-up!
PROGRESSIVE JAM livestream
Please note: Stream is limited to live viewing.There will be no replay.
Tickets are available through August 15 (Sat) 18:30 Japan time.
Band members:
Toshimi Nagai (b) (Vienna, Ded Chaplin, Gerard, ExhiVision)
Rei Atsumi (key) (Moon Dancer, Vow Wow, Casino Drive)
Yoshihisa Shimizu (g) (KENSO)
Keisuke Komori (dr) (KENSO,TRI-Offensive, 3 Sides Live, Yaju-Okoku)
Show schedule: (Japan Time)
Date: August 15 (Sat)
Stream site opens at 19:00 (7:00pm)
Show begins at 19:30 (7:30pm)
(There will be 15 min intermission.Show is scheduled to finish around 21:45 (9:45pm))
(Reference time conversion)
Tokyo, Japan Sat, 15 Aug 2020 at 19:00 JST
Sydney, Australia Sat, 15 Aug 2020 at 20:00 AEST
London, UK Sat, 15 Aug 2020 at 11:00 BST
New York, USA Sat, 15 Aug 2020 at 06:00 EDT
Ticket price: 3,800 Yen (approx. US$36)
Electronic tickets are available at:
https://twitcasting.tv/c:silvereleph...shopcart/14722
For Japan domestic purchases, convenience store payments are accepted through August 14, 23:00 (11:00pm)
All sales final. (No refunds)
For detail on live stream viewing, please visit:
http://www.silver-elephant.com/twitcasting.html
*Due to heavy network traffic over the weekend, viewing may require bandwidth adjustment on twitcasting page.
Contact:
Silver Elephant, Kichijoji, Tokyo
Phone: (+81) 0422-22-3331
Thanks to Tatsuro Ueda for the translation!
Now, let's go in Japanese.
I was really looking forward to this live, so I'm glad I didn't cancel it first.
I did not expect to experience the cutting edge of only audience and distribution at this age, but if you were at KENSO's live, you would come from Hokkaido in the north, Okinawa in the south, and even overseas, ``At the session If you are a distant person who thought, "Maybe," please take this opportunity to experience Mr. Banmas Nagai's live performance "Weeping a famous song of the progressive rock".
For people living far away, this live broadcast may be the first and last opportunity to see me playing outside of KENSO.
Then, please give me information!
I totally need to order that Yume No Oka on vinyl!!!
The Prog Corner
Quote Originally Posted by aith01 View Post
Anyone know if any of the US vendors will be carrying the Yume No Oka LP?
https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/1047395928
Kenso’s Guide To Making Progressive Rock Music is a bit curious DVD in the Kenso-discography. Here a review I wrote many years ago.
KENSO
Kenso’s Guide To Making Progressive Rock Music
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At the release of Kenso’s last studio-albums an often heard remark was that the music became more and more inaccessible and complex. On the double-DVD Kenso’s Guide To Making Progressive Rock Music the Japanese musicians examine this posing detailed, assisted by colleague-musicians, like keyboard-player Hiroyuki Nambo (ExhiVision, Sense Of Wonder). By interviews, examples played in the studio and explanations recorded during clinics it becomes clear there are two sides on this posing. On the one hand the increased complexity is particularly being caused by the incorporation by the members of more and more influences and music-styles in their music. They examine elaborate the Indonesian Gamelan, from which the typical scales are being incorporated in the track Tjandi Bentar from Fabulis Mirabilibus De Bombycosi Scriptis. With a lot of humor keyboarder Kenichi Oguchi explains the employment of this technique, after which the band plays the complete piece to the enthusiast crowd. Next Keizo Kawano, a keyboard-player who once was a member of Kenso, demonstrates the ingenious reuse of theme’s, like the one from Shiduka Con Tobira from Utsuroi Yuku Mono, which returns in different ways in other pieces of that album. And bandleader Yoshihisa Shimizu shows how his guitar-playing has developed more and more because of the use of advanced aids and studio-techniques and the use of string-instruments from different cultures. On the other hand the music-style of Kenso has always been drenched from irregular times and influences from classical music. There’s for instance an informative and comical fragment in which keyboarder Kenichi Mitsuda explains how much Shimizu’s music embroiders on the music of classical masters like Debussy (in Sora Ni Hikaru from Kenso II) and Holst and Elgar (in The Shadow Over Innsmouth from Sparta). The multiple use of times which are complex on the ear is being discussed on the base of sheet music and the tapping or clapping along with certain songs, on which one emphasizes that complexity is especially a way to increase tension or to create a certain groove. An old piece like Anesthesia Part 2 from Kenso II is one of the compositions which is being analyzed that way. What makes this release particularly special though is that the band-members constantly make connections with progressive rock in general and what they think is important when someone wants to make music in this particular style. On disk 2 they go deeper into this subject. This disk contains a dialogue between Shimizu and Oguchi. In this they define the concept and period “Progressive Rock” (1969-1974 – by this definition Kenso is therefore a band which is influenced by progressive rock), while they also explain that the term and through that the marking out came about later, which is why the categorizing afterwards often feels very artificial. The scene in which the gentlemen go through their record-collection is a feast for the lovers of vinyl. One after another the covers are being showed from Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, ELP, Trace, Area, Gentle Giant, Tangerine Dream and Focus, at which they draw a lot from childhood memories and views on the many master-pieces. The Krautrock is also being discussed, which is also the case with the incredible influence of the LP’s from UK on Kenso, a band which also falls outside the scope of progressive rock. Finally in the epilogue Shimizu shows his early artistic expressions: poems, paintings and cover-designs made as a teenager, which formed the base of many songs. All of this makes this Guide a very interesting release, which gives an intense view from the inside of a progressive rock-band and also presents a solid analysis of the genre, while the spoken word is often alternated with Kenso’s always staggering music.
I have that DVD for sale, if anyone's interested
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Very nice review, Rene. Copyediting all those English subtitles was quite a lengthy and intense undertaking, though it's always an honor to help out one of my favorite bands when I can.
Cheers,
Alan
I have that DVD, and I love it for what it is. Very oddball, but it really lets you get to know the members of the band, and the workings of the music. Some good live stuff is on there, also. And, it was made right around the time of my favourite album of theirs, Fabulis Mirabilibus De Bombycosi Scriptis, was released.
neil
Last edited by boilk; 01-18-2021 at 04:00 PM.
Thanks!
As you might understand Alan I had to edit the original review in order to remove the address of the Advent-shopname (where the DVD initially could be ordered). Beautiful times!
Great times indeed, Rene. Cheers!
If anyone wants a Kenso box set email Mike Kermisch from Audiophile Imports at mrfusion123@verizon.net and you can discuss prices.
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