“DAVID GRUBBS JAPAN TOUR 2026”
Before you go
He started out in hardcore punk — David Grubbs returns to Japan for the first time in eight years.
David Grubbs was born in 1967. As a teenager he formed the hardcore band Squirrel Bait, then Bastro, which in 1991 became Gastr del Sol, his partnership with Jim O'Rourke. After Gastr del Sol broke up in 1997, he has worked mostly solo, collaborating for years with the poet Susan Howe.
His playing builds a large landscape out of a single minimal phrase shifting little by little, with a gentle voice and dreamlike words slipping in unexpectedly. In 2025 he released 'Whistle from Above,' his first entirely instrumental solo album; tonight is a chance to hear his guitar up close after that record.
He is now a professor of music at Brooklyn College in New York. Sharing the stage are Michihiko Yokokawa on violin, electronics, and voice, and Hiroshi Funato on double bass.
- Advance tickets ¥3,500
- Booking
- Advance ¥3,500, door ¥4,000, plus one drink. Shows with advance prices can be booked via the venue reservation page.
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