Vimana Sound - Valuna, Kota Taki & Yui Cello

29 Mar 20:00

Jam - Bangkok

Vimana flying palace will transport us to new heights through sound.

We welcome a newly formed performing art duo, Valuna, consisting of Soluna from France doing Japanese theatrical dance, known as Butoh, as well as calligraphy and voice performance, and Naoto Vava K from Japan playing the tabla, performing throat singing, electronics, and dance. Joining them is free-improvisation, psychedelic guitar player Kota Amatuti Taki and storytelling, experimental cellist Yui Cello.

● Valuna Vortex-Art-Experience
● Amatuti dub drawing space - KOTA TAKI
● Yui Cello

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#experimental #worldmusic #psychedelic #performanceart #butoh #throatsinging #tabla #kalimba #freeimprovisation #cello

YUI CELLO
Yui-Saowakhon Muangkruan is a cellist based in Nakhonpathom, Thailand. She is known as someone who tells her story through her instrument. The Yui Cello phenomenon, as she explains, takes inspiration from society matters, other’s life experiences and her life. The text she composes unfolds like poetry while she cajoles her instrument with decisive strikes and loops, bringing out the multi-layered lyricism. Yui was invited to present her ideas at TEDx in Chiang Mai and participated in the Y2K14 International Looping Festival in Bangkok, Asian Meeting Festival 2015 in Japan, FEN 2015 in Singapore, migration music festival 2017 in Taiwan.collaboration with Koichi Shimizu for Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's latest film "Samui Song".
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTdmuWK1NVRdXVcnhtGmKrA/videos

KOTA TAKI
Electric guitarist (musical improvisation)/composer/songwriter. Japanese born in 1969. Learnt classic piano since 1974 for 10 years. Composed music since 1984 and started original songwriting since then. A major debut from Victor Entertainment (Japan), signed an exclusive artist contract in 1998. Solo career from 2003 and performed "Dub drawing space musical improvisation" about 1,500 times all over Japan. Immigrated to Thailand in 2011 and started musical activities from 2013.
https://soundcloud.com/kota-amatuti-taki

VALUNA
Naoto Vava K from Japan (Tabla, Kalimba, Throat Singing, Electro etc. & Dance) & Soluna from France (Butoh dance, Voice, & Calligraphy).

Meeting at an artist residency in Busan South Korea in August 2017. They started to do improvised collaborative performances at exhibitions and street performances. Also, the Butoh workshops at Busan National University.

In October, SOLUNA had Japan tour. When she arrived in Tokyo, they continue to do performance and showed the first creation named【Dogu 土偶】in Abiko International Open-Air Festival.

In November, They had an artist in residence program in Yogyakarta Indonesia and showed 2nd creation named【Fleur 花】in art exhibition at Tembi Rumah Budya. Since then, they gave the name for this project as “VALUNA ~vortex-art-experience~” and focus to create some kind of spiritual, universal, energetic art.

In January 2018, They organized an event〖Earth Pilgrims in Indonesia〗at Jogja Contemporary/Jogja National Museum complex. And showed 3rd creation named【Ho’ oponopono】

In February 2018, They showed 4th creation named【MOTHER】at Rudra art gallery in Chiang Mai Thailand.

Today, they continue to do performance and Butoh workshop at live music bar, gallery, open air festival etc. in Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam).