BO NINGEN Reveal New Single ‘The Climbing’ Out Now via Alcopop! Records
BO NINGEN Reveal New Single ‘The Climbing’ Out Now
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Taken From The Holy Mountain Alternative Soundtrack Album Released 1st March 2024 via Alcopop! Records
Triple Vinyl Box Set, CD, Limited Prints and Merch Bundles Available
Preorder: https://shor.by/TheHolyMountain
Full Album Performance Live At Gare Des Mines, Paris on 29th Feb 2024 + EartH in Hackney, London on 1st March 2024
Tickets on sale: https://shor.by/TheHolyMountain
Japanese alt-rock band BO NINGEN are pleased to reveal their new single ‘The Climbing’, the first track taken from their alternative soundtrack album to cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s seminal film The Holy Mountain, set for release on 1st March 2024 via Alcopop! Records.
In partnership with Deeper Into Movies, the band will also be hosting a very special live performance of their alternative soundtrack at EartH, Hackney on 1st March 2024 —a 700 capacity tiered seated venue with original Art Deco features and state of the art L-ISA sound system, to provide the best possible experience of this must-see-and-hear event.
Alongside the UK date, the quartet have just announced a second live score performance on 29th February at Gare Des Mines, Paris. Tickets are on sale now, see below for listings.
Recorded by Kristian Craig Robinson at Total Refreshment Centre and mastered by The Anticipation Illicit Tsuboi at RDS Toritsudai, the release consists of a limited box set of triple vinyl, each in their own unique colour, plus a limited 40 page unique book containing a series of original artworks created by Kohhei Matsuda and Simon Fowler depicting their own interpretation and inspiration of the music of ‘The Holy Mountain’.
Commenting on the release, Kohhei Matsuda (guitar/synth) and Monchan Monna (drums) said: “We wanted to make something more than ‘a band jamming to the film’ live score. To do so, we tried to decipher the secret of Jodorowsky’s alchemy to reach our own Holy Mountain, reflecting the underlying structure of the film—which is delusional at sight, yet mystically logical throughout—in each stage of the music."
"It was quite an experience to work on the piece that way, diving deep into the director’s vision where the border between the reality, delusion, the film, and real life blurs. Trying not to drown in it all, we had to find our own path back to our own version of reality. This is an aural representation of our own version of the film. We hope each of you find your own way to your own version of The Holy Mountain through reliving this mind-altering journey with us.”
The band originally performed their alternative soundtrack to the film ‘Holy Mountain’ in July 2019 for 2 sold out nights at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, where it was nominated for ‘Best Event Cinema Campaign Of The Year 2019’.
During the brief latter periods of the pandemic when the band were allowed to travel internationally between London and Japan, BO NINGEN at last managed to reconvene as a unit in London to finally commit the soundtrack to record.
Long working in the liminal spaces between the worlds of music, art, fashion, literature and film, the band have a storied history of creative collaboration with the likes of Yoko Ono, Alexander McQueen, Douglas Hart, Damo Suzuki, Jehnny Beth, Hedi Slimane, Juergen Teller, Lydia Lunch, Faust, NTS Radio and more.
BO NINGEN announced their signing to Alcopop! Records for their fourth studio album Sudden Fictions in 2020, with critical praise and support for the record from BBC 6music, Q Magazine, The Quietus, Guitar World, Classic Rock, The Line of Best Fit, CLASH, London in Stereo, DORK, UPSET, Louder Than War and many more.
They followed up in 2021 with BO NINGEN: Rebuilt, a very special reissue of their critically-acclaimed 2010 self-titled debut album. Intent on avoiding the cliched lazy reissue tropes of new packaging, remasters, or retakes, for this new version of the album the band decided to completely reinvent the record from the ground up.
BO NINGEN Live Score Performances:
29.02.24 - Gare Des Mines - Paris (FR)
01.03.24 - EartH - London (UK)
BO NINGEN are:
Taigen Kawabe (bass / vocals)
Yuki Tsujii (guitar)
Kohhei Matsuda (guitar / synth)
Monchan Monna (drums)
BO NINGEN online:
https://www.facebook.com/boningenband
http://boningen.info/
https://www.instagram.com/bo_ningen_band
https://twitter.com/boningenuk
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With four studio albums to date winning them a host of huge-name collaborators and fans (including Alexander McQueen, Douglas Hart, Damo Suzuki, Jehnny Beth, Hedi Slimane, Juergen Teller, Lydia Lunch, Faust, NTS Radio and many more), BO NINGEN’s iconic look and quest for artistic invention is only surpassed by their intense live performances, which have earned them a place as one of the most captivating live acts in the UK, and saw them voted ‘Best Live Act of 2018’ by festival-goers for their appearance at Green Man Festival.
The Guardian, i-D, DAZED, Love Magazine, Nowness, Design Week, NME, The Quietus, DIY magazine, and CRACK Magazine have all hailed them for their chaotic & anarchic onstage performances, often leading to personal injury. Rightly so, as their now-fearsome live reputation has earned them a host of global tour dates alongside such notable artists as Nick Cave, Primal Scream, Super Furry Animals, Kasabian, TV on the Radio, The Fall, Savages, WIRE, The Cult, The Horrors, Temples, Keiji Haino and many more.
Over the course of their career the band have featured on line ups at some of the world’s biggest festivals—including a personal invitation to Yoko Ono’s Meltdown Festival—appearing at Glastonbury, MIDEM, Coachella, Fuji Rock, Iceland Airwaves, Summer Sonic, Reading & Leeds Festivals, Primavera, Canadian Music Week, End Of The Road, SXSW, CMJ, Big Day Out, The Great Escape, and scores of other events including the Venice Biennale (in collaboration with Tim Noble and Sue Webster), Frieze Art Fair (in association with ICA), and Doug Aitken's Station To Station at The Barbican.
The band were featured at the 2019 Sheffield Documentary Festival for a one off event mixing several short films by Toshio Matsumoto and Bo Ningen’s live show, and teamed up with ‘Deeper into Movies’ to create a unique recreation and performance of the soundtrack to the seminal film ‘The Holy Mountain’ directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. With two sold out screenings at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, a subsequent screening and live performance occurred at Sensoria Festival in Sheffield in October 2019. The project was nominated for ‘Event Cinema Campaign of the Year’ by Screen Daily Magazine.
The Holy Mountain Live Score tracklist:
Side A
The Alchemist
Encounter
City 1: The Capital
Wax Dummies
Side B
City 2: Rondon
Ascension
The Duel
Transformation 1,2
Side C
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn 1
Saturn 2
Side D
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Gathering
Transformation 3
Side E
Journey
Harbour
Seascape
Side F
Pantheon Bar
The Climbing
