08.06.09
JUNKO "THE GRANDE DAME OF SHRIEK" TOUR
Our "hawai noise" tour with junko is over. I put away my lapsteel 
and junko join Jojo Hiroshige for an Hijokaidan concert at a festival in Koeln. 5 concerts together at Dublin, Copenhague, Berlin, Hanover & Koeln. Meetings with kind peoples : Daniel & Doreen from Tochnit-Aleph, Tommi Keranen, Pit, Tobias, Till Knola from Aufabwegen, Billy & Catherine in Berlin, Fergus, Anton, Jude, Cedric & his little family in Dublin ... Really exciting tour with a fuckin heavy sound, nobody for tell us to play more low !!! The most amazing was the screamin solo performance of Junko, 50 minutes of intense terror & beauty.
07.06.09
BIOGRAPHIE
Michel Henritzi – guitar, lapsteel, amp, reverb, percussions, turntable, field recordings ...
Guitar played from abstract blues to noise. A tribute to : American primitive music, Enka music & feedback(s).
Member of : Dustbreeders (with Yves Botz and Thierry delles) and Howlin’Ghost Proletarians (with Fabrice Eglin)
Perform with : Kumiko Karino, Rinji Fukuoka, Jojo Hiroshige, Junko, Masayoshi Urabe, Chie Mukaï, Tamio Shiraishi, Mico, Yukiko Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Masafumi Ezaki, Taku Sugimoto, Shin’ichi Isohata, Toshimaru Nakamura, Ito Atsuhiro, Fumio Kosakai, Kiyoharu Kuwayama, Tetsuo Furudate, Ami Yoshida, Mattin, Miguel Prado, Ivar Grydeland, Quentin Dubost, Bruno Fernandes, Nicolas Moulin, Fergus Cullen, Aya Onishi & the Nihilist Spasm Band.
Concerts in France, Japan, Switzerland, Belgie, Germany, England, Neederland, Portugal, Spain, Danemark and Ireland.
Discography :
Michel Henritzi, Junko, Masayoshi Urabe "Ecstasy of the Angels" CD - Opposite (usa) 2009
Michel Henritzi "Shinjuku Blues & Whispering Shadows", CDR - Dyin'Ghost records (fra) 2009
V.A "Inner Ends of the Coils", CDR - Nothing Out There (fra) 2009
Michel Henritzi "Walking with the Shadows" Laraskito (spain) net 2009
Michel Henritzi, Junko, Aya Onishi, Rinji Fukuoka "Live", CDR - Anarchives (fra) 2008
Michel Henritzi, Junko, Mattin "Je t'aime!" CDR - Absurd (greece) 2008
Michel Henritzi "Nothing" CDR - dyin'ghost records (fra) 2008
Michel Henritzi, Shin'ichi Isohata, Xavier Charles "duo(s)" CDR - o-musubi (japon) 2008
Michel Henritzi, Tetuzi Akiyama "broken blues" CDR - absurd (greece) 2007
Michel Henritzi (feat. Bruce Russell, Taku Unami, Shin’ichi Isohata, Mattin) " Keith Rowe serves Imperialism " CD - wmo/r (eusk) 2006
Michel Henritzi, Rinji Fukuoka, Kumiko Karino " Live at U.F.O Club " DVD- There (japon) 2006
Michel Henritzi / Brandon Labelle / Minoru sato / Guiseppe Ielasi / Achim Wollscheid " Social Music " Book + CD - Errant Bodies (usa) 2002
V.A " Meeting at Offsite vol.1 " CD - IMJ (japon) 2002
Howlin'Ghost Proletarians "The Last Farewell" miniCDR - Nothing Out There (fra) 2009
Howlin’Ghost Proletarians " The Singer " CDR - Absurd (greece) 2006
Howlin’Ghost Proletarians " Dead Roads " CDR - Absurd (greece) 2004
Dustbreeders & Junko "s.t" DVDR - 0E dans l'O (france) 2006
Dustbreeders / Guilty Connector " Bells " CDR - Utsu Tapes (japon) 2003
Dustbreeders & Junko " Mommy Close the Door " CD - Starlight Furnitures (usa) 2003
Dustbreeders " Le Proces Cannibal " LP - Elevage de Poussière (France) 1999
Upcoming
Michel Henritzi + Junko + ESB "Sessions in Dublin" CDR
Metto (feat. Tamio Shiraishi, Mico, Mebae, Michel Henritzi) "Live at Hasselt" CDR
Michel Henritzi & Shin'ichi Isohata "Broken Fingers - A Jazz Epiphany" CDR
06.05.09
ECSTASY OF THE ANGELS
JUNKO / MASAYOSHI URABE / MICHEL HENRITZI
"Ecstasy of the Angels"
OPPOSITE RECORDS (usa)
Junko (voix) - Masayoshi Urabe (alto sax, chains, guitar) - Michel H (feedback, snare drum, wood, metal junk)
Recorded by Michel Henritzi on DAT at The Bridge, Osaka, May 2004
http://www.oppositerecords.com/index.html
04.05.09
SHINJUKU BLUES & WHISPERING SHADOWS (UPCOMING)
MICHEL HENRITZI
SHINJUKU BLUES & WHISPERING SHADOWS
1 – Walking in the Shadow
2 – Times
3 – Shinjuku Blues
4 – Neon Lights
5 – Nagasaki Blues
6 – Walking with Shadows
7 – Outside Darkness
8 – Rokudenashi’s stairs
9 – Kyoto Blues
10 – Night Butterfly’s Song
11 – The Floating World
12 – Red Kimono Blues
13 – Sake’s Dreams
14 – Shinjuku No Tsuki
15 – Neon Lights II
16 – Ayakashi No Tsuki(Kazuki Tomokawa)
17 – Long Nights
18 - Kabuki-cho Lights Die at Dawn
Michel Henritzi – guitar & voice on 16
Pictures by Kumiko Karino
Artwork by C.L
Dedicated to Keiko Fuji & enka singers for their inspiration
Dyin’ Ghost rec. 02
INNER ENDS OF THE COILS
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CD 1 :
1.Melmac ~ Prades Eus Catllar
2.RST ~ Lancasters
3.Jeff Gburek ~ Remote Province IV: Poznan, Lazarz District
4.Poldr ~ Celeste Mate
5.Savage Sons Of Wallonie ~ The Deeper Unreal
6.Michel Henritzi ~ Dust - for Harry Smith
7.Nappe ~ Spray Fossil
CD 2 :
1.Gunn Diehl ~ Atlantic Looks
2.Sun Stabbed ~ Les Sociétés Secrètes Et Leurs Agissents
3.Century Plants - Last Delay
4.Gart & Seekatze ~ Kronos
5.Michael Northam ~ Sunbust Serenade Against The Mental Trolls
6.Expo '70 ~ Drowning Under Silver Moon
artwork by : n.o.t.
n.o.t.#13 is available for preorder, please email for information.
19.04.09
WALKING WITH THE SHADOWS
"walking with the shadow" is online at www.xedh.org/larraskito
link: http://www.xedh.org/larraskito_netlabel/spip.php?article71
walking in the shadow is a solo live recording at pannonica, nantes, 18 january 2008
01.04.09
JUNKO & MICHEL H. EUROPEAN TOUR MAY/JUNE 2009
Junko - voice / Michel Henritzi - lapsteel, guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBnH7wmlqk4
- 24 May - dublin, anseo (+ E+S=B)
- 28 May - copenhague, lades
- 30 May - berlin, ausland (+ rulla - aka tommi keranen + thomas ankersmit) Part 1 of Tochnit Aleph 15th Anniversary Concert Series
- 31 May - berlin, tricksters (junko solo + tochnit aleph dj-set) Part 2 of Tochnit Aleph 15th Anniversary Concert Series
- 03 June - hanover, silkes salon
- 04 June - koln, stadtgarden (+ column one + ström)
photo by kazuhiro okuno, tokyo 2007
31.03.09
LIVE at ZDB, LISBOA (portugal) pic : Kumiko Karino
30.03.09
WALKING IN THE SHADOW TOUR
road movie from paris to lisboa, from sevilla to paris, crime&city solution, sixteen horsepowers, the jacks, kazuki tomokawa for soundtrack. 4 concerts on kumiko karino pictures - a black&white slide show of japan's backyard.
walking with shadows in old portugese and spanish towns : viana de castello, braganca, evora, monsanto, guemaraez, lisboa, leskeito, burgos, sevilla, salamanca, bilbao. show me the way to the next tapas bar.
tour dates :
- braganca, central pub : 06 March
- lisbon, ZDB : 14 March (+matt elliott)
- bilbao, larraskito club : 20 March
- bordeaux, la centrale : 21 March (+gretsch union)
28.12.08
NISHIOGI NO TSUKI
2 jours de studio, à Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, avec Kan Mikami et l'ingénieur du son Francois Dietz pour enregistrer 9 nouvelles chansons pour le label US : Siwa. "NISHIOGI NO TSUKI (The moon of Nishiogi)", 9 songs enregistrés en une seule prise, voix et guitare, l'os et le sang. Kan travaille très vite, juste le temps d'une clope pour respirer entre les prises. Il neige dehors. Entre Metz et Nancy on écoute les enka de Shin'Ichi Mori, rituels quotidiens, le blues du Japon en bande-son des paysages autoroutiers lorrains, la nostalgie de cet ailleurs avec nous.
