Birchville Cat Motel

Yesterday Colleen & I headed back to Osaka to see my friend Campbell Kneale perform. Campbell's from that tiny but awesome corner of the earth known as New Zealand and he put out a recording of mine last year on his Celebrate Psi Phenomena label. He also played a small show in our living room last January that was the best performance I saw/heard all year. And he was just as great last night, as were the other performers - including his fellow New Zealander Antony Milton. The added bonus yesterday (on top of getting to see a friend) was that this particular show was held in a beautiful Buddhist temple. Very exciting to hear such amazing sound in such an ancient, peaceful place. (No offense to all the warehouses, art galleries, basements, bars, etc. out there.)



The temple is called Zenkoji and the reason they host shows is that the head monk there is also a sound artist who uses stones as source. He didn't perform last night, but I'm just about to listen to pop in his CD. Trying to end the evening on as a great a note as last night.