Ryosuke Kiyasu

Ryosuke Kiyasu is returning to Leeds for a special full kit show at Eiger Studios, with support from Kawaiiyasu & Andi Jackson.

RYOSUKE KIYASU has been active as a snare drum soloist since 2003, and is also known as the drummer for SETE STAR SEPT, Kiyasu Orchestra, and Keiji Haino's band Fushitsusha. He is also known as a founding member of The Endless Blockade in Canada.

His solo performances have been featured on BBC News and VICE magazine, and his 2018 Berlin concert was a huge hit on social networking sites with over 23 million views. He has also performed at the "Dr. Martens Fest 23" in Finland, "Outsider Art Festival" in Finland, and "Alternativa Festival" in Czech Republic.

+ support from:

KAWAIIYASU

UK guitarist Harry Souter, saxophonist Harvey Parkin-Christie, and Hong Kong/Japanese drummer Teruki Chan present: Kawaiiyasu, a trio responding to the jazz and improvised music tradition. The group moves in and out of abstract materials freely, with compositional influences from early European free jazz and Shipxean folk music. The trio is characterised by confrontational improvisation and dynamic composition, pushing the boundaries of intimate ensemble playing.

+ ANDI JACKSON

“Based in Manchester and also half of psychedelic rock duo Thraa, with several other varied DIY bands in his glittering past too, Andi Jackson’s ‘Tangible Lines’ is an album comprised of 10 otherwise untitled ‘movements’ which stylistically vary from post-no wave treated guitar sculpture to digitally-clipped drone to all-out improvised feedback wrangling to a final flourish of what seems to be field-recorded birdsong. A strong and elegant set of wordless expression!” - Noel Gardner