KAMURA OBSCURA
Looped electronics,
vocal improvisations through improbable effects,
surreal Japanese chanson and the occasional roaring punk wailing
Forthcoming gig
Past gig
2022
07 Nov. Uramatsuri
8 Oct
Benshi Performance at FILM FEST,
Setubal, Portugal
Japan Solo Tour
22 July @Hard rain, Osaka
with Chie Mukai
23 July @Space Eauuu, Kobe
with Chie Mukai
25 July @K.D Japon, Nagoya
with Che Mukai
24 Aug. @Bar Isshee, Tokyo
With Okinawa Denshi Syojyo Sai
27 Aug. @Nanahari, Tokyo
with Lenka, Yusei Kaneko
28 Aug. Giga Noise Festival @ Akihabara Goodman, Tokyo
31 Aug. @ Bar Isshee, Tokyo
with Mitsuru Nasuno
M.S.U (Mizutama Shobodan Reunite) tour
8 Aug. @ Akihabara Goodman, Tokyo
M.S.U. and Acid Mothers Temple
9 Aug. @Namba Bears, Osaka
5 March at Hundred Years Gallery
18 March at Club Integral at Iklectikwith Kenny Process Team, Fourth Pages
2021
The NIghtingales UK Tour
Sept.11 Itako Sisters at Cafe Oto
Sept. 25 Solo at Scale down
2020
11 September
All Womens Networked Jam Session at Arts Electronica
Online event
25 July
Culture as a Dare
online music festival
9 July
La Horrox / Kamura Obscura / Anat Ben-David
View at Youtube (from 28:45)
Iklectik online event
21 June 2020
OsCiLlaTioNs - Summer Solstice Music Festival - fundraiser event
The online event hosted by Iklectik
04 June
A Flange Gathering - Live performance on Twitch
Communal Orchestra Viral Improvisation Day, online
06 Mar.
W/Two Dogs @Hermon, Oswestry
28 Feb.
Single Launch @The Edge, Birmingham
2019
Itako Sisters (Atsuko Kamura and Yumi Hara) @Hundred Years Gallery, London
Solo at Scaledown154 @ The Kings and Queens, London
30 Jahre Mauerfall @SVA, Stroud
Atsuko Kamura + Jude Cowan Montague, Art On Air, Resonance FM Tate Modern residency, The News Agents, @Tate Modern
Kamura Obscura solo at Sex Gang Children @The 100 Club, London
Itako Sisters (Atsuko Kamura and Yumi Hara) at Resofest @ Cafe Oto, London
Kamura Obscura Electro
(Atsuko Kamura+Andrea Rocca)
Club Integral Midlands Branch,
@The Edge, Birmingham
04 Aug
Kamura Obscura Solo +Andrea Rocca
@Artscafe, London
21 June
Atsuko Kamura + Anat Ben-David at Horse Improvisation Club
@Iklectik, London
30 Apr.
Flatpack Festival
"A page of madness" live score by Sinestro Home Video
@ Royal Birmingham conservatoire, Birmingham
13 Apr.
Kamura Obscura solo
Record festival @ Stroud Sound Records, Stroud
Lindsey Cooper Songbook tour
(Tim Hodgkinson, Chris Cutler, Yumi Hara, Chlöe Herington, Mitsuru Nasuno, Atsuko Kamura )
7 Mar. @ Garage Coffee, Canterbury
8 Mar. @ Cafe Oto, London
9 Mar. @ Kreuzung an St. Helena, Bonn
10 Mar. @Theater im Pumpenhaus , Münster
2 Feb. 2019
Kamura Obscura Solo
A Fascist Can't Dance. a>m single launch party.
@White Post, London
2018
27 July (Fri)
w/Elizabete Balčus & Lai Power
@Ort Cafe, Birmingham
15 June (Fri)
Club Integral Midlands Branch
W/Haco and Tarnovski
@The Edge, Birmingham
30 June (Sat.)
w/Ayo Bamidele & TheSeaEnemies
@N5 Live at The Gunners, London
1 May (Tue)
Solo
@ Victoria, London
18 May (Fri)
W/Nad Spiro, @Convent Sant Agustí , Barcelona
21 May (Mon)
Solo W/Miki Yui
@Centrala, Birmingham
19 April (Thur)
Flatpack festival + Club Integral Midland Branch
@Centrala, Birmingham
20 April (Fri)
Solo, W/Amor Bendito & Jude Cowan Montague
@Harrison, London
25 Mar.
Linear Obsessional Live
Art Cafe, London
24 Mar.
SVA, Stroud
17 Mar.
Trio, EP Launch
Centrala, Birmingham
2 Mar.
Solo, W/Makoto Kawabata & Geoff Leigh
IKLECTIK, London
2017
8 Dec
Solo, Mind Your Head!
Golden Anchor, London
11. Nov.
Trio, Intox Extravaganza III at the DIY Space
DIY Space, London
11 Oct.
Women's Solo Sound
The Ort, Birmingham
29 Sept.
Solo, Ura Matsuri - Celebration of The Third Culture
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London
23. Sept.
Trio, Bulgarian-Birmingham International Festival of Live and Time-Based Art
The Edge, Birmingham
25. Aug.
Solo, The HAREM Presents Poetix Of Peacing
Biddle Bros, London
29 Aug.
Solo, with Bob Drake, The Harrison, London
6 Aug.
Solo, Linear Obsessional Live ,The Arts Cafe , London
28 Jul.
Solo, Scaledown, The King And Queen, London
28 Jun.
Solo, Montague Arms, London
21 Jun.
Trio, Club Integral, Iklectik, London
with Makoto Kawabata and Geoff Leigh
Japan Solo Tour March 〜April 2017
11 Mar.
Unknown Theatre, Tokyo
14 Mar.
Hikaru no uma, Tokyo
17 , 18 Mar.
Chikyuya, Tokyo
19 Mar.
Bottle Neck, Naha
20 Mar.
Kitchen Fukiya, Naha
21 Mar.
Shima Omoi, Naha
23 Mar.
Jyurai, Naha
24 Mar.
Bar Ronnie Scott’s, Nagasaki
25 Mar.
IAF Shop, Fukuoka
26 Mar.
Gallery Sorp, Kokura
27 Mar.
Namba Bear, Osaka
30 Mar.
Bar Isshee, Tokyo
31 Mar.
Cafe Muriwui, Tokyo
1 Apr.
Barbarra, Tokyo
2 Apr.
Koen-Dori Classics, Tokyo
3 Apr.
Nanahari, Tokyo
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29 Jan
Trio, Flange Zoo Gathering
Vinyl Deptford, London
8 Jan
Linear Obsessional Live
Art Cafe, London
2016
1 Dec
Trio, Bob Drake & Kate Goes to Club Integral
with Kavus Torabi, I'KLECTIK, London
17 Nov.
Trio, Dorcha ISM EP show
Centrala, Birmingham
7 Oct
Trio, Club Integral Midlands
The Edge, Birmingham
3 Sept
Trio, Uramatsuri Festival @Cafe Oto, London
with No Cars
2 Sept
Trio, The Lamplight Club, Regather Centre, Sheffield
with Sarah Sharp
25 Aug
Solo, Scaledown, The King & Queen, London
27 Jul
Solo, Montague Arms, London
22 Jul
Trio, UPAJ, I'klectik, London
20 Jul
Solo, Convivium＃2, Catford Constitutional Club, London
1 Jul
Solo Improv., Hundred Years Gallery, London
25 Jun.
Duo, The S.V.A. Goods Shed, Stroud
24 Jun.
Club Integral , The Others, London
8 Jun.
Solo, New River Studio, London
15 May
Solo, Klinker, Apiary studios, London
13 May
Kamura&Iris Ederer
Red Kimono Evening, Conway Hall, London
5 May
with The Nature Centre, Ort Cafe, Birmingham,
3 May
Supporting Josephine Foster
Glad Cafe, Glasgow
27 Apr
Solo, MNFM, The Victoria, London
10 Apr
Kamura impro, Hundred Years Gallery, London
18 Mar
Kamura Impro, International Women'sDay, I'klectik, London
11/12 Mar
Remember Fukushima Vigil/Rally, Parliament Square, London
19 Feb
Resonance FM charity, I'klectik, London
30 Jan
Solo, Hello Goodbye Show by DeXter Bentley, Resonance FM radio, London
2015
19 Dec
Solo, Linear Obsessional Live, Artscafe, London
4 Dec
Trio, First Friday, The Edge, Birmingham
5 Nov
Club Integral, I'klectik, London
9 Oct
Club Integral , The Cambria, London
18 Sept
Solo, New River studio, London
10 July
Kamura impro, Club Integral Local, The Cambria, London
30 May
Kamura Impro @Bar Isshee, Tokyo
29 May
Solo @Nanahari, Tokyo
2 May
Solo, Image Gallery, London
4 Apr.
Solo,
Jude Cowan Montague Exhibition, hARTsLane, London
11/14 Mar.
Remember Fukushima Vigil/Rally , Parliament square,
London
28 Feb
Kamura Obscura at Silencio Watford Acoustic Folk @The Cha Cafe, Watford
2014
27 Dec
Kamura Impro @Bar Isshee, Tokyo
26 Dec
Solo @Shinjyuku Urga, Tokyo
21 Dec
Kamura + Pika & Oni
Explo 14 Kobe @Helluva Lounge ,Kobe
18 Dec
Solo, Last Walz, Tokyo
17 Dec
Kamura impro, Vanilla Mood, Tokyo
8 Nov
Kamura & Manual Calvo in Isabel Castro Jung's Anemoi, Spain (Now!) fes, London
2 Sept
Kamura impro, Tree Hospital Festival, Tower Hamlet Cemetery, London
Jul
16 May
Kamura solo, Stand up Tragedy@ Hackney Attic, London
01 May
Solo , Trip to the moon, W/Spaceheads, @ The Others
21 Mar.
Kamura solo, Club Integral @ The Grosvenor, London
01 Jan.
Improvisation with Iris Ederer and Annette at Ark 1, London
2013
28 May
Solo W/Vampillia at CI,Grosvenor, London
27 May
Solo W/Vampillia at CI, Palatine, Stoke Newington, London
Solo, Full Stop, London
2012
22 Sep.
Impro. Morgana, Tokyo
26 Aug.
"I am a Kamura" at Ai daro Ai, Uwaya theatre, Kobe
31 July
Kamura Obscura Trio @ Servant Jazz Quaters
2011
12 Jun.
"I am a Kamura" at Yuntaku Takai Fes, Earthdom, Tokyo
Feb
"I am a Kamura" @Chikyuya, Tokyo
2009
26 Oct
"I am a Kamura" with Japanese members at Drive to 2010 at Shinjuku Loft, Tokyo
11 Oct.
Setsubun Bean Unit at Asagiri JAM festival, Japan
09 Oct.
Setsubun Bean Unit at Roppongi Super Deluxe, Tokyo
2008
05 Dec.
"I am A Kamura" at Club Integral at Cafe Oto
04 Oct.
"I am A Kamura" album launch with Sylvia Hallet and Jack Shirts @ Cafe Oto, London
11 Sept
"I am A Kamura" Supporting Kan Mikami @ Cafe Oto
29 June
"I am A Kamura" at Insanity CL
Hackney Empire, London
2007
12/01/2007
"I am A Kamura" at Club Integral @ Canterbury Arms, London
26/03/2006
"I am A Kamura" at Club Integral @ Canterbury Arms, London
2006
24 Mar.
"I am A Kamura" at Club Integral @ Canterbury Arms, London
"Setsubun Bean Unit" UK tour
11 Jan
Sussex Arts Club, Brighton
12 Jan
Spitz, London
14 Jan.
Arts Centre, Colchecter
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