April 19: Shimokitazawa 440

I visited Promo Arte at noon, an Art Gallery in Omote Sando specialized in LatinAmerican Art, I had a friendly meeting with the owner to arrange possible participation of Moni in an upcoming group exhibition next December. This meeting has been arranged in advance by the Argentinean Embassy. The owner was very kind, and expressed obvious concern for the future of Japan.

After the meeting I had lunch here...tempura...

In the evening I played with Yuji Katsui (electric violin), Yumiko Ohno (bass and keyboards), Eiko Ishibashi (piano), Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (one of my very favorite drummers of all times in the world) at Shimokitazawa 440 , Tokyo

Luxury! Lots and fun, grooves, quiet, surprise, noise, color, sonic beauties, music and good heat!!!! What a treat to play with these superb musicians. We began the concert with a piano duet with Eiko Ishibashi! yes I dared.....I so much enjoy playing my Roland GR55 guitar synth piano sounds that I proposed a piano duet to Eiko...and this is how we began the set...

This is Yumiko's Moog, signed by Bob Moog himself...

As always, the owner and staff of this venue were so kind!

Very generous and enthusiastic audience. Good attendance.

Good to see Hajime and Naomi after the show, we have toured together a few years ago. Heroes!

Back to the hotel on the subway with Kaz.

I had dinner here...noodles...

And here's a pic of Ace Drummer Takashi Numazawa happy wearing his brand new Luck T-Shirt last night!

And here's a photo from my archives: about 4 or 5 years ago in Tokyo with Yumiko, DJ Moog and Cornelius