Wednesday 2 November 2022, 8pm
Yama Warashi is the vision of Yoshino Shigihara, a Japanese musician and artist. Inspired by Japanese folk dance, free jazz and tribal African music, and heavily saturated in psychedelia, Yama Warashi’s songs are lyrically outlandish and charming, melodically addictive and mythical; the band name translates from Yoshino's native tongue as “small childlike mountain spirit”. Having made herself at home in the thriving Bristol scene, in 2019 Yoshino moved to London, in search of new inspiration. She became a resident at the Total Refreshment Centre and opened Vanishing Twin U.K tour in 2021.
Rising stars An Alien Called Harmony are a duo based in South London. MettaShiba and Nadeem Din-Gabisi also bring family connections and life experience from Japan, the West Coast of the USA, Sierra Leone and from London’s rich and broad afro-diasporic communities.
"This project is a vehicle to push an outlier otherworldliness to the fore" - Nadeem Din-Gabisi
“We tend to talk about problems in terms of overall harmony and disharmony...less so what’s good and bad. We see harmony as aspirational and AACH songs are asking questions and sharing insights in line with this, but often in a playful way and from a slightly extraterrestrial perspective.”- MettaShiba
Judy Brush plays tunes of unforgiving alt-folk. Psychedelic, hip shaking rock and roll. With the odd punk disco thrown in. A desperado clinging on to the realest of real with tape cassette in hand. Take your stone cold turkey twizzlers to the floor baby and loosen them up a little.
