This orchestra consists of only a single chap on stage, Julien Israelian, who had the idea of a pocket orchestra one day, when he bought an old suitcase in a secondhand shop. Not a Samsonite made of plastic, which we would imagine at the end of a golden boys’ arm, in too much of a hurry when in transit at the airport, but a beat up crusty suitcase filled with peculiar home-made instruments and two loop stations. The music of Samsonite Orchestra is essentially crafted with plucked strings, rubbed and struck, then looped, stacked, and assembled. Some of these sounds are very strange and sometimes poetic, the filiation with the music of Pierre Bastien is imperative but Samsonite Orchestra goes much further, creating real rhythmics, settling into repetition for some kind of minimal techno entirely designed by hand and rather evanescent, just like an old tatapoum from Wolfgang Voigt (Gas).

11-12 July: SuperDeluxe, Tokyo
13 July: Bonobo, Tokyo
14 July: Dublab, Tokyo
17 July: SuperDeluxe, Tokyo
18 July: Bar Kitty, Osaka

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