Isao of Tokyo Black Star: “You don’t have this here? But where do you put the ash if you smoke outside in the nature?”
For a lot of people the 80ies had been the most creative period in popmusic. A lot of things were possible and borders had been teared down. The belgian label ” Les Disques du Crepuscule ” was at the forefront of the interface between music and art. Benoit Hennebert the famous illustrator was responsible the visual appearance and Michel Duval and Annick Honore for the artistic programation. Lately we travelled to Duesseldorf to see the big Sonic Youth exhibition. On the next day we went to cologne to visit a couple of galleries and only by accident we passed by the “Koelnischer Kunstverein”. From outside we could see the logo from the label so we went in and actually we dicovered one of the best music related exhibitions we have ever seen.
Hello everybody!
Proudly we can announce the arrival from our scarfs we did in co-operation with Slam Jam and Matzu. We took six motives out of the matzu pictures inside the Tokyo Black Star Cd and made some nice silk scarfs out of it. Our friends from Slam Jam did a great job and soon they will be available in our webshop.
Alex played on an instore gig at the Slam Jam Shop in Milano and you can find some great pictures from that event on the Slam Jam Blog.
Check out their website and their blog, cause they are very interesting guys coming form the original Cosmic Disco Scene back in the days and they have a great approach to music and design in general.
Kristian
Hello everybody!
I am Alex from Tokyo part of Tokyo Black Star with my partner in crime Isao Kumano.
I am back in NYC from the Miami Winter Music Conference where most of us, Dixon, Frank, Henrik, Marcus and myself got together for a few days to enjoy the sun and to play at the annual aquabooty/Innervisions party last Saturday. Thank to all you who came down to support!
Sorry, another funny movie. But there is just nothing really serious these days. No problems in the world, no financial crisis. It’s gonna be the best year since years! Go for Kraftwurst!
Over the last years we became really good friends with the people behind the famous Club11 in Amsterdam. We played there regulary in different combinations and some of the nights were pretty memorable. I even invited the guys to Germany to stay at my home for a couple of days but they never accepted the offer till today.
After the phenomenal closing in june they left a big gap in the nightlife of the town. Now they found a new location in the centre of the city and they will open probably at the end of february. Olaf and Daan will do the job and during my last visit at the end of december they showed me the venue. It is the building from an old newspaper, but the building was empty for a while now.
