$30 Seated & $25 Bar/Standing
7:00pm Show
Photo by Jim O’Rourke
Eiko Ishibashi will perform her solo music at Berlin while in town for a special Ryūsuke Hamaguchi film retrospective at the Walker Art Center. Ishibashi, a revered Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist, is not often seen in the Midwest. Don’t miss this rare performance. For fans of CARM, Sam Gendel & Nate Mercereau, and of course, Hamaguchi.
Kenneth Gregory will perform a nature-inspired ambient piano set to open this show.
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Eiko Ishibashi is a Japanese multi-instrumentalist who has created acclaimed singer-songwriter albums; film, television and theater scores; and improvised music in live settings. She has collaborated with international artists such as Jim O’Rourke, Keiji Haino, Charlemagne Palestine, Merzbow, Giovanni Di Domenico, and Oren Ambarchi. Her own records have been released by labels including Drag City, Black Truffle, and Editions Mego. She composed the soundtracks for Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s films Drive My Car (2021) and Evil Does Not Exist (2023) and won the Best Original Music award at the Asian Film Awards for each score. She hosts a quarterly show on the global radio platform NTS Radio.
“The music of Eiko Ishibashi has been with me for years—ghosting between reality zones, ducking genre tags, slipping through jazz, noise, pop, and scores like it’s nothing.”
— Thomas Venker, Strum and Iodine
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Kenneth Gregory is a musician and composer from northeastern Minnesota. He is fascinated by nature sounds, how they are combined with and influenced by the sounds of industry, and how they may be incorporated into music. He became connected with the Twin Cities underground electronic music scene during the 2010s. Since moving back to his hometown of Duluth, he has adopted a more naturalistic and free-flowing sound that reflects the vast expanse of Lake Superior. Kenneth utilizes experimental recording techniques involving tape loops, field recordings, primitive digital sampling, and vintage keyboards to create sound tapestries that are at once hypnotic and emotionally resonant. His most recent album is the ephemeral pool, which celebrates the new life of spring and the fragility of natural wetlands.
