🇬🇧 “… the magic of their music slowly took over the venue.”
🇫🇷 “… la magie de leur musique s’est lentement emparée de la salle”.
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Author: afuriko
AfuriKo appeared on Osaka Broadcasting Corporation (OBC), also known as Radio Osaka, an AM radio station of National Radio Network (NRN). The interview, including excerpts from AfuriKo’s second album Style, was aired on September 9, 2016, as part of weekly cultural program “Utazuki Don!“. The show is hosted by renowned Japanese producer, arranger, and singer-songwriter Taiji Nakamura, who has received several awards including the Japan Record Award (major annual music awards show that recognizes outstanding achievements in the Japan Composer’s Association in a manner similar to the American Grammy Awards) twice in 1972 and 1982.
AfuriKo appeared on local radio station Yokohama Community Broadcast Co., Ltd., located at iTSCOM Studio & Hall in Setagaya (Tokyo) and better known as FM Salus, on November 3, 2015. The interview, including a few musical excerpts from their second EP, The Other Village (released in Japan only), was aired as a part of daily program “Afternoon Salus.”
AfuriKo was invited to perform live on Jazzbox, a weekly program hosted by jazz lover Jacques Thévenet and aired every Saturday from 5 to 6pm on Aligre FM. This multicultural radio station was established in 1981 in the “quartier d’Aligre,” a historical working-class neighbourhood of the 12th arrondissement of Paris. Its mission statement is to “create and develop social and cultural links,” and many of its programs highly value notions such as freedom of speech, respect of human rights, and equality.
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On the Far Side interview: JazzActu.tv
🇫🇷 “Une musique qui respire, pulse, bifurque, badine. Inclassable et jouée avec une exquise délicatesse, au détour d’improvisations sournoises. Élaborée et à la fois sincère et spontanée. AfuriKo est en principe un duo absolument atypique. … À découvrir d’urgence et à y entrer doucement.”
🇬🇧 “Music that breathes, pulsates, bifurcates, trifles. That is unclassifiable and played with exquisite delicacy, in the course of sly improvisations. Elaborate yet sincere and spontaneous all the while. AfuriKo is in essence an absolutely atypical duo. … I urge you to discover them and slowly enter their world.”
– M. M., Afrique Asie
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Hearth at Home interview on a1r.tv – part 2
AfuriKo was invited to Rodney Hearth’s home in North Wales for an interview in two parts that was aired on UK Entertainment’s channel A1R Family Focus Television. Committed to freedom of speech, truth, justice and the promotion of excellence, A1R has been producing inspirational, challenging and thought provoking programmes over the years. There mission, in their own words, is to “reflect the best in people and places.”
This program is in two parts: back to Part 1.
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Hearth at Home interview on a1r.tv – part 1
AfuriKo was invited to Rodney Hearth’s home in North Wales for an interview in two parts that was aired on UK Entertainment’s channel A1R Family Focus Television. Committed to freedom of speech, truth, justice and the promotion of excellence, A1R has been producing inspirational, challenging and thought provoking programmes over the years. There mission, in their own words, is to “reflect the best in people and places.”
This program is in two parts: jump to Part 2.