Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra
The members of Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra offer a mix of genres and art that you can experience in its full range at Pohoda. The difference is that they do so all at a time and on one stage. The band played four times in a row at the annual Fuji Rock Festival, the Japan's largest festival, as well as at other international festivals such as Glastonbury. They will bring their profuse multimedia experience also at Pohoda 2016 in just a month’s time.
09. June 2016
Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra was formed in 1989 by composer and bassist Daisuke Fuwa. He put together artists from the Tokyo avant-garde, classical, jazz, and punk scene. In addition to musicians, many dancers of the traditional Japanese Butoh dance, visual artists, actors, and other artists have passed through the orchestra. Their performances also include costumes, masks, visual effects, and sometimes even a 20-metre helium dragon... In their music, they merge traditional Japanese motifs with funk and free jazz, latino, and Balkan rhythms. The band´s agency said about them: “Their music is delirium, a fiesta, and a sound UFO that will take you to another planet”.
The band was also noticed by the portal weirdestbandintheworld.com, which wrote about the band: "There is a rotating cast of some 20 to 30 musicians and performers, the most striking of which are the near-naked Butoh dancers, covered in white body paint and writhing, climbing the scaffolding and engaging in general freakery. There are also video projections, giant balloon creatures, live action painters and enough all-around sensory overload to make Cirque du Soleil look like C-SPAN.
After all, see yourself...