BO NINGEN Announced As Le Guess Who? Festival Curators For 2024
BO NINGEN Announced As Le Guess Who? Festival Curators For 2024
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Japanese alt-rock band BO NINGEN are delighted to announce they will curate Le Guess Who? Festival 2024 in the Netherlands this year alongside Arooj Aftab, Crystallmess, DARKSIDE, Mabe Fratti and Touching Bass.
Commenting on the news, guitarist Kohhei Matsuda said: “When we considered curating artists for one of our favourite festivals in the world, the key for us was how the music and artists are interwoven with what Bo Ningen are, and where we come from. Being Japanese, we started as aliens in the UK, but essentially became a London band, with friends and comrades, from youngsters to legends, unbound by geographic or temporal limitations. All of those fragments make our curation special. We always believe in ourselves for being genre-less, for crossing different disciplines, and so these line ups are too. With this curation, we present our distinct musical and cultural fusion to introduce fresh perspectives to both new audiences and Le Guess Who? OGs.”
Widely considered to be one of the most forward-thinking festivals around, Le Guess Who? exists to promote sounds that are often overlooked, and to platform fresh perspectives on what is possible in music. Artists from all over the world offer an insight into the unprecedented diversity of human creativity. Le Guess Who? believes that music has the power to stimulate new insights and ideas, while also deepening our connection with the world around us.
Bo Ningen’s curation is dedicated to “representing the Bo Ningen community, with lots of collaborative projects and with a strong focus on audiovisual performances.” The band will also present their own alternate live score to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 magnum opus The Holy Mountain.
Furthermore, they present GAISTER, an exciting new crossover between soprano vocalist Olivia Salvadori (Tutto Questo Sentire), drummer and percussionist Akihide Monna (Bo Ningen), and songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Coby Sey; an audio visual collaboration by musicians and composers Klara Lewis and Nik Colk Void, along with visual artist Pedro Maia; and Still House Plants, a British group that bridges elements of sampling, slow core and repetition to create fractious and sharp music with a melting pop heart.
Joining them will be CHELA, Gorgonn & Utku Önal present Six Paths, Helen Papaioannou & Noriko Okaku, Ill Japonia &, Masumi Saito, Klara Lewis & Yuki Tsujii, Lunch Money Life, Rebecca Salvadori presents MESSENGERS, The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis, and 食品まつり a.k.a. Foodman.
The initial line-up for Le Guess Who? 2024 can be found at www.leguesswho.com/lineup
BO NINGEN released their alternative soundtrack album to cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s seminal film The Holy Mountain earlier this year via Alcopop! Records. The band also hosted a very special SOLD OUT live performance of their alternative soundtrack at EartH, Hackney—a 700 capacity tiered seated venue with original Art Deco features and state of the art L-ISA sound system, to provide the best possible experience of this must-see-and-hear event.
Le Guess Who? returns 7-10 November 2024 for its 17th edition in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
The Holy Mountain Live Score Performances:
7-10 November 2024 - Le Guess Who? - Utrecht - Netherlands
The Holy Mountain Live Score tracklist:
Side A
The Alchemist
Encounter
City 1: The Capital
Wax Dummies
Side B
City 2: Rondon
Ascension
The Duel
Transformation 1,2
Side C
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn 1
Saturn 2
Side D
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Gathering
Transformation 3
Side E
Journey
Harbour
Seascape
Side F
Pantheon Bar
The Climbing
BO NINGEN are:
Taigen Kawabe (bass / vocals)
Yuki Tsujii (guitar)
Kohhei Matsuda (guitar / synth)
Monchan Monna (drums)
BO NINGEN online:
https://www.facebook.com/boningenband
http://boningen.info
https://www.instagram.com/bo_ningen_band
https://twitter.com/boningenuk
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With four studio albums to date winning them a host of huge-name collaborators and fans (including Alexander McQueen, Douglas Hart, Damo Suzuki, Jehnny Beth, Hedi Slimane, Juergen Teller, Lydia Lunch, Faust, NTS Radio and many more), BO NINGEN’s iconic look and quest for artistic invention is only surpassed by their intense live performances, which have earned them a place as one of the most captivating live acts in the UK, and saw them voted ‘Best Live Act of 2018’ by festival-goers for their appearance at Green Man Festival.
The Guardian, i-D, DAZED, Love Magazine, Nowness, Design Week, NME, The Quietus, DIY magazine, and CRACK Magazine have all hailed them for their chaotic & anarchic onstage performances, often leading to personal injury. Rightly so, as their now-fearsome live reputation has earned them a host of global tour dates alongside such notable artists as Nick Cave, Primal Scream, Super Furry Animals, Kasabian, TV on the Radio, The Fall, Savages, WIRE, The Cult, The Horrors, Temples, Keiji Haino and many more.
Over the course of their career the band have featured on line ups at some of the world’s biggest festivals—including a personal invitation to Yoko Ono’s Meltdown Festival—appearing at Glastonbury, MIDEM, Coachella, Fuji Rock, Iceland Airwaves, Summer Sonic, Reading & Leeds Festivals, Primavera, Canadian Music Week, End Of The Road, SXSW, CMJ, Big Day Out, The Great Escape, and scores of other events including the Venice Biennale (in collaboration with Tim Noble and Sue Webster), Frieze Art Fair (in association with ICA), and Doug Aitken's Station To Station at The Barbican.
The band were featured at the 2019 Sheffield Documentary Festival for a one off event mixing several short films by Toshio Matsumoto and Bo Ningen’s live show, and teamed up with ‘Deeper into Movies’ to create a unique recreation and performance of the soundtrack to the seminal film ‘The Holy Mountain’ directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. With two sold out screenings at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, a subsequent screening and live performance occurred at Sensoria Festival in Sheffield in October 2019. The project was nominated for ‘Event Cinema Campaign of the Year’ by Screen Daily Magazine.
Long working in the liminal spaces between the worlds of music, art, fashion, literature and film, the band have a storied history of creative collaboration with the likes of Yoko Ono, Alexander McQueen, Douglas Hart, Damo Suzuki, Jehnny Beth, Hedi Slimane, Juergen Teller, Lydia Lunch, Faust, NTS Radio and more.
BO NINGEN announced their signing to Alcopop! Records for their fourth studio album Sudden Fictions in 2020, with critical praise and support for the record from BBC 6music, Q Magazine, The Quietus, Guitar World, Classic Rock, The Line of Best Fit, CLASH, London in Stereo, DORK, UPSET, Louder Than War and many more.
They followed up in 2021 with BO NINGEN: Rebuilt, a very special reissue of their critically-acclaimed 2010 self-titled debut album. Intent on avoiding the cliched lazy reissue tropes of new packaging, remasters, or retakes, for this new version of the album the band decided to completely reinvent the record from the ground up.
Recorded by Kristian Craig Robinson at Total Refreshment Centre and mastered by The Anticipation Illicit Tsuboi at RDS Toritsudai, their 2024 release The Holy Mountain consists of a limited box set of triple vinyl, each in their own unique colour, plus a limited 40 page unique book containing a series of original artworks created by Kohhei Matsuda and Simon Fowler depicting their own interpretation and inspiration of the music of ‘The Holy Mountain’.
