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On the new solo CD Kujô-Shakujô Junko Ueda sings a repertoire from the 9th century Japanese traditional Tendai Buddhist Shomyo. Kujô-Shakujô is a rare recording where you can listen to the complete nine parts of this ancient piece. Also, this CD includes the sutra text and its complete translations in English and Japanese. This CD is a most unique documentation of this tradition, which is succeeded until today without interruption.

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Ancient tradition says that the Kujô-Shakujô sutra has miraculous powers. We pray that evil spirits will be driven away, that the earth will be purified and that the world will be the place of peace for all living things.

EU Tour:

• 17 June 2023, L'an Vert, Lieges (BE)
• 18 June 2023, Houtfestival, Haarlem (NL)
• 1 July 2023, Festival Med, Loulé (PT)
• 7 July 2023, Rudolstadt Festival,Rudolstadt (DE)
• 14 July 2023, Chauffer dans la Noirceur, Montmartin sur Mer (FR)
• 15 July 2023, Errobiko Festiobala pre party, Bayonne (FR)
• 16 July 2023, Musicales de l'Aggly, Planeze (FR)

• 23 August 2023, Lexington, London (UK)
• 24 August 2023, The Jam Jar, Bristol (UK)
• 25 August 2023, Shambala Festival, Northamptonshire (UK)
• 26 August 2023, The Cornish Bank, Falmouth (UK)
• 27 August 2023, Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool (UK)

• 18 May 2023, FIMAV, Victoriaville (CA)
• 21 May 2023, Ring Ring, Belgrade (RS)
• 22 May 2023, Club Singles, Sofia (BG)
• 23 May 2023, SKC, Kragujevac (RS)
• 24 May 2023, Zez, Zagreb (HR)
• 25 May 2023, Druga Godba, Ljubjana (SL)
• 26 May 2023, Limmitationes, Deutsch-Minihof (AT)
• 27 May 2023, Orpheum Extra, Graz (AT)
• 28 May 2023, Immerhin, Wurzburg (DE)
• 29 May 2023, Music Meeting, Nijmegen (NL)

• 12 April 2023, Teater Momentum, Odense (DK)
• 13 April 2023, Victoria, Malmö (SE)
• 14 April 2023, Turkis, Aalborg (DK)
• 15 April 2023, Riksscenen, Oslo (NO)
• 16 April 2023, Skjulet, Götenburg (SE) at 20:00
• 17 April 2023, Råhuset, Copenhagen (DK)
• 18 April 2023, Speicher Husum, Husum (DE)
• 19 April 2023, Stubnitz, Hamburg (DE)
• 20 April 2023, Tor 9, Bremen (DE)
• 21 April 2023, Roadburn Festival, Tilburg (NL)
• 29 April 2023, April Jazz, Espoo (FI)

Click here to read the Fifteen Questions Interview by this internet music platform to Junko Ueda and in relation with the PoiL Ueda project, in which she joins with Lyonnaise contemporary rock group PoiL in the the PoiL Ueda project.

On 16 March 2023 at 18:00, the Duo Ueda Offermans performs at the Festival de Cultura Japonesa ‘Nippon Bunka-sai’ organised by the University of Murcia, Spain. See more program information here.

• 1 March 2023, Marché Gare, Lyon (FR)
• 2 March 2023, Zelig, Lausanne (CH)
• 3 March 2023, Kuba, Jena (DE)
• 4 March 2023, Festival des Arcs en Hiver, Baden (CH)
• 8 March 2023, Le Bout de Monde, Vevey (CH)
• 9 March 2023, Neubad, Luzern (CH)
• 10 March 2023, Vera, Groningen (NL)
• 11 March 2023, Peel Slowly and See, Leiden (NL)
• 12 March 2023, Le Lac, Brussels (BE)

Click here to listen to the one hour interview with Junko Ueda by Charlie Crooijmans of the Dutch Radio Wira Wiri (in English).

On the 3rd March 2023, the first album (CD and LP) of PoiL Ueda will be released. You can order the CD and LP at poil.bandcamp.com.

About the Album ‘PoiL Ueda’: Unexpected encounter between Junko Ueda, eminent figure of the Japanese medieval epic storytelling, whose warm and profound voice summons the terrestrial energies and the organic madness of the monster PoiL practicing with cosmic rock without net. Poil Ueda detonates the limits of rock and world music. By the magic and respect of the "Ma (間)," the two universes mesh and converge in perfect osmosis. The album opens with Kujô-Shakujô, a Buddhist shômyô chant practiced by monks to ward off evil spirits. The second part of the album plunges us into the naval battle of Dan no Ura and the grievous decline of the imperial Heike clan facing the Genji clan. Junko's stories surf freely on PoiL’s tumultuous wave pulsing with brashness and precision.

PoiL Ueda appears in the showcase of the WOMEX 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 20 October 2022 at 23:15 in Capitólio Stage.

More info: www.womex.com

On 18 July 2022, the concert of Duo Ueda Offermans is held at Modern Art Museum of the Abbey of Fontevraud, in the Loire Valley, France on the occasion of the Claude Monet exhibition. More info: www.fontevraud.fr

Junko Ueda participates with her traditional biwa music in the project ‘Xenakis Birthday Party’ at the Belvedere 21 (contemporary art museum) in Vienna on 18 June 2022 as part of the Wiener Festwochen. The project is to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the composer Iannis Xenakis. Reinhold Friedl (musician, composer and director of the ensemble Zeitkratzer) is curating a celebration on a grand scale.

More info: www.festwochen.at/en/we-bear-the-light-of-the-earth

• 4 June 2022, Le Brise Glace, Annecy (FR)
• 5 June 2022, Jazz au Lavoir, Les Vans (FR)
• 8 July 2022, Z Bau, Nuremberg (DE)
• 9 July 2022, Pohoda Festival, Slovakia
• 19 August 2022, Malguénac Festival (FR)

Junko Ueda is performing biwa in the animation film called ‘Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles’. The show starts streaming on 28 April 2022 on Netflix. The music is composed by Los Angels based composer Aiko Fukushima. Here below you can see the official trailer at YouTube.