STOP PRESS! BIG NEWS! 大ニュース！！

ふーちんギド大ニュース！！ モンゴルのフェスティバルからオファーがありました

FU-CHING-GIDO Big News!!
We've had an offer from a festival in Mongolia!　Watch this space!

New FU-CHING-GIDO Goods On Sale Now!

FU-CHING-GIDO Limited Edition Tenugui! ふーちんギド　限定版手ぬぐい！

A beautiful traditional Japanese towel featuring an original Fu-ching print design! These are the first run of FU-CHING-GIDO traditional merchandise, and the same design will never be produced again! Limited to a small run, with only 20 left for sale, these are very rare merchandise indeed! GRAB YOURS WHILE STOCKS LAST!!

ふーちんギドオリジナル手ぬぐいです！！
チューバとパーカッションをモチーフに、ふーちんがデザインしました。

More information on Tenugui and their multiple uses can be found here:  
japan-magazine.jnto.go.jp/en/1310_tenugui.html

Navy blue design on white cotton, size 90cm x 34cm.

Each tenugui will be packaged in an individual cellophane sleeve for protection.

BUY IT HERE!

(Tenugui, model's own)

(It's love, even upside-down)

12/30 LIVE!!

モナレコードさんがオファーしてくださり、ライブ決定しました！！！2015年12月30日(水）下北沢mona records「年忘れフーテナニ2015」会場18:00/開演18:30前売り\2,500当日\3,000（＋1ドリンク500）出演→リベラシエロ、ふーちんギド

Delighted to announce our end of year gig! Mona Records is a lovely venue and it should be a great night of wild gypsy music! Come and celebrate together! 

December 30th

Shimokitazawa Mona Records 

"TOSHIWASURE HOOTENANNY 2015"

Libera Cielo + FU-CHING-GIDO

Doors: 18:00 Start: 18:30

Advance tickets ¥2,500, On the door ¥3,000 (plus drink ¥500)

You can book by mailing us at fu.ching.gido@gmail.com

or directly through the venue http://www.mona-records.com

More info to come, but be sure to book early, it's going to be one heck of an evening!!

ふーちんギドアルバムレビュー

ステキなレビューでした！ありがとうございます！

http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/fuetako/cd/fuching.html

HOW TO BUY THE FU-CHING-GIDO ALBUM ふーちんギドのアルバムを買うには

HOW TO BUY THE FU-CHING-GIDO ALBUM

ふーちんギドのアルバムを買うには

1. Bandcamp 

ダウンロードまたはメールオーダー、PayPalかクレジットカード

1. Bandcamp

Download or mail order, credit card or PayPal

https://fu-ching-gido.bandcamp.com/releases

2. Tuba88にて

Tuba88のオーナー中村さんが、僕らのアルバムをお店に置いてくれています。大久保駅のお店はこちら:

http://tuba88.net/access.html

2. Tuba88

Very cool gentleman Mr.Nakamura, owner of the world's greatest tuba shop, Tuba 88 in Okubo, Tokyo, is stocking the album.

3.ヨーロッパからのメールオーダーFar Side Musicより

こちら:

http://www.farsidemusic.com/acatalog/CONTEMPORARY_JAZZ.html#aFSD6829

3. Far Side Music

European Mail Order is available from U.K.based Far Side Music.

8/2 下北沢モナレコード

8月2日ふーちんギド、モナレコードでのライブ詳細がでました！OPENとSTARTが変更になりました！OPEN18:00／START18:30🎶前売り2,000当日2,300。ふーちんギド、Sami Elu、TIGER HEAD、A Book Shelf。ふーちんギドは21時から！

予約はfu.ching.gido@gmail.comで承りまーす！

もちろんお店でも大丈夫ですよ！http://www.mona-records.com/live/2015/08/

Our gig at Mona Records on August 2nd has had a couple of changes. The open and starting times have now changed, because Mona Records have crammed in two extra bands for your live music delectation! It's looking like a great night!

OPEN 18:00 / START 18:30. Advance tickets ¥2,000, on the door ¥2,300.

FU-CHING-GIDO

SAMI ELU

TIGER HEAD

A Book Shelf

FU-CHING-GIDO are onstage from 21:00. You can make reservations either by mailing us at fu.ching.gido@gmail.com or through Mona Records http://www.mona-records.com/live/2015/08/

6/20 Miwazow Matsuri LIVE REPORT

6/20 Star Pines Cafe Kichijoji- Miwazow Matsuri Brass Special! Special Guests FU-CHING-GIDO

LIVE REPORT

What an extremely intense but wonderful few days it's been. Playing as members of Kogure Miwazow's band for her birthday matsuri gig at Star Pines Cafe in Kichijoji is fast becoming a yearly tradition, and it's really an honour, getting to play some different music from the norm, with interesting line-ups, in a grand, celebratory atmosphere. And this year Fu-ching and I were doubly honoured when Miwazow-san asked us to perform a FU-CHING-GIDO set, as special guests. We accepted without hesitation, as we would love to bring our music to the event. Then it dawned on us what a mammoth task it was that we'd taken on! 

Playing Ohkuma-san's wonderful arrangements takes a huge amount of stamina, wits and power and can be deeply exhausting in itself. Add to that a 30 minute set of the insanely intense, multi-tasking tightrope walk that is FU-CHING-GIDO, sandwiched into the middle of the evening, and we began to sense the potential for total collapse!

Stamina-wise, the rehearsal schedule wasn't on our side either. 8 hours of rehearsal on the day before, followed by 4 hours of soundcheck/rehearsal on the day had us already pretty fazed by the time Miwazow struck up the band with her wonderful chindon, and we descended down through the audience playing the "100 year Circus" theme and took to the stage. But then something remarkable happened. The warm spirit of the audience gave us so much energy and carried us like a wave. Miwazow's choice of music was really interesting and great too, mixing up Klezmer, Swedish marches, Bhangra, Gypsy, Tango and Prog Rock! Unforgettable highlights for me (Gid) were an amazingly inspired stripped-down chindon street band version of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Miwazow's prog rock chanchiki, WOW!!). And a massively joyful rendition of Frank Zappa's "Peaches en Regalia".

And as for the FU-CHING-GIDO set? It must have been a combination of factors- great sound onstage and out front, a really hot and direct audience reaction, and our exhaustion all combined to make it certainly our greatest performance to date. Somewhere in the middle of that maelstrom of summer heat, lack of sleep, tiredness of body and mind, we didn't have the chance to get nervous like we usually do, and it felt as though we found a new depth of intensity and power, but somehow with a very calm focus. That was really a very special experience. We want to thank the audience for giving us that extra energy, and for Kogure Miwazow for so kindly asking us to participate. 

Our next gig is on June 20th at Yatsui Festival 2015, where we'll be playing at 7th FLOOR, Shibuya at 19:30. Maybe we should aim to be totally drained and exhausted for that one too! 

Hope to see you there,

FU-CHING-GIDO

FU-CHING-GIDO ふーちんギド NEXT GIG

【6月20日（土）YATSUI FESTIVAL！2015】

7th Floor, Shibuya, 19:30 start!

http://yatsui-fes.com

photo @mi_itaan

photo @mi_itaan

photo @shizumin_gerbil