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| Naoito at Art Stage Singapore 2011 photo Wanya F. Kruyer |
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| YATAI at Art Stage Singapore photo Wanya F. Kruyer |
Highlight on Art Stage: the informal concert of singer/guitarist Naoito from Japan on Sunday Jan 16, YATAI Tour.
Naoito's music is full of influences from music around the world, Asian, African, and Western singer/songwriter's, however recognisable his very own style.
The performance was called YATAI trip project, an hommage to the typical Asian food stall. Naoito and crew brought to Singapore a real Yatai, movable but instable balancing on a wheelbarrow, serving as an folding table on which the audience was invited to have a drink. Only accompaynied by a musician on hand organ, singer and guitar player Naoito left a lasting impression with his intense and touching performance. He musicality reminded me of Jeff Buckley, the American singer/guitarist with his intense voice, who died way too young. Buckley, like Naoito, was during his short career searching through classic and contemporary music, aware of this issues of his time. Naoito's shopping, a critical musical comment of consumerism, confronted the audience art Art Stage with the world around them at Singapore's new shopping wahallah - with all that luxious Western brands - at the Marina Bay Sands, the venue of Art Stage.
The performance was called YATAI trip project, an hommage to the typical Asian food stall. Naoito and crew brought to Singapore a real Yatai, movable but instable balancing on a wheelbarrow, serving as an folding table on which the audience was invited to have a drink. Only accompaynied by a musician on hand organ, singer and guitar player Naoito left a lasting impression with his intense and touching performance. He musicality reminded me of Jeff Buckley, the American singer/guitarist with his intense voice, who died way too young. Buckley, like Naoito, was during his short career searching through classic and contemporary music, aware of this issues of his time. Naoito's shopping, a critical musical comment of consumerism, confronted the audience art Art Stage with the world around them at Singapore's new shopping wahallah - with all that luxious Western brands - at the Marina Bay Sands, the venue of Art Stage.
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