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Shibusashirazu Orchestra: A Midsummer Night’s Dream


Pit Inn / Tokyo / Music

If Sun Ra had come to Earth not from Saturn but from the far more distant Planet Tokyo, his Arkestra might have looked something like this. Shibusashirazu (roughly: “Don’t be cool”) will desecrate Shinjuku’s jazz shrine with writhing Butoh dancers, geishas semaphoring with giant bananas, and frantic, riff-propelled free jazz. —E.E.

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