Taiwan Tour 2024
Tokyo-based instrumental twisted funky music with exotic vibes
of Tropique is a Tokyo-based instrumental band formed in 2018. Their music sounds like a tropical gumbo soup made by mixing different types of old and new ingredients from all over the world with crazy spices to spice it up. While the clarinet plays catchy melodies, others use a variety of instruments as if they made their dishes as colorful as possible. Listening to of Tropique will take you on a little trip to the peculiar side of Tokyo, one of the most bizarre cities in the world. Latest album “Buster Goes West”(Electric Cowbell Records) was featured on Bandcamp.
Tour Dates:
12.7(sat) TAIPEI @ TIGER MOUNTAIN「Tiger Mountain Ramble 2024」
OF TROPIQUE (JP)・DJ TXAKO (JP)・・THE MUDDY BASIN RAMBLERS
CELLULOID・COMBOBULATORS・DJ TXAKO (JP)・HIGHER ROOTZ・DEMSKY
KOICHI "HANA-G" HANAFUSA ? YO HEY LI ? MOSHE FOSTER & FRIENDS
JINGMEI TIM ? DJ MARCUS AURELIUS ? COMPLICATED ZOMBEEZ? & more
Open/Start: 14:00～Midnight
Tickets: $550 ~ 四人套票 4-Pack Group Tix (must buy 4 tix)
$600 ~ 一般預售 Regular Advance Tix / $700 ~ Door
Address: 微遠虎山 台北市信義區福徳街221巷186-1號
Tiger Mountain, No 186-1, Lane 221, Fude St, Xinyi District, Taipei.
Info: Tiger Ramble http://www.facebook.com/tmromf
12.8(sun) TAIPEI @ VINYL DECISION
OF TROPIQUE (JP)・DJ TXAKO (JP)
Open/Start: 17:00 / Tickets: Free Admission
Address: 台北市中正區八徳路一段一號華山文創園區，西7-4館
No.1, Sec. 1, Bade Rd., Zhongzheng District, Taipei.
Info: Vinyl Decision +886 2 2327 8136 / http://www.vinyldecision.com/
Info: JAPONICUS
http://www.japonicus.com
http://www.facebook.com/japonicus.tokyo
http://www.instagram.com/japonicus_rebel/
Of Tropique (official website):
http://www.oftropique.com/
of Tropique - Totem (Live 2024 )
Of Tropique (bio):
of Tropique is a Tokyo-based instrumental band playing twisted funky music with exotic vibes. They were originally an exotica band of seven who formed in a 2018 collaboration with famous illustrator Jun Otani to make an art book called “La Palma”. They released a single called “Wooo/Zoro” in 2021, and then an album called “Buster Goes West” in 2023 (on Electric Cowbell Records in the US). The album was a favorite on radio, picked by several countries for 'Best Album of 2023' playlists, and was featured on Bandcamp Daily (https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/oftropique-buster-goes-west-interview). After COVID-19 they became a trio of clarinet, bass, and drums almost like one of the old, Japanese Chin-don street bands (drum, clarinet, saxophone) that always played at local fairs or advertised the opening of a new pachinko parlor. The distinctive tone of Teppei Kondo’s 1905 “Albert system”
clarinet, with its bigger borehole and unusual key system, has the flavours of Cumbia, Calypso, New Orleans, Klezmer, reminiscent of both Eastern Europe and Japanese Chindon. Exotic melodies are propelled by a rhythm section of Daisuke Tanaami’s R&B influenced bass and Ryo Fujita’s modern funk drums, creating a pulse and a deep groove that echoes instrumental bands from The Meters to Khruangbin. The band's eclectic tropical-infused instrumental tunes have been used in ads for Apple and Gimlet, and they often provide music for fashion brands, TV programs and movies in Japan. They just finished a new tune with percussionist Mutsumi Kobayashi of the well-known Minyo Crusaders, and it will be released as a split single with Argentine cumbia star Rolando Bruno.
企画・制作・招聘：Japonicus
協力: Tiger Mountain Ramble/DJ Txako/Vinyl Decision/Tree Little Birds/