VIDEOTAPEMUSIC “NOISE FACE LANDSCAPE” RELEASE TOUR 2026

Before you go

He collects discarded VHS tapes and turns the footage into music.

VIDEOTAPEMUSIC is a musician and video artist. He gathers VHS tapes, a fading medium, from place to place and builds music and video works out of them; live, he performs with VHS footage and a melodica, and he also directs music videos and VJ sets for other musicians. In recent years he has made work through fieldwork around Japan, and performs as Kotei, a project using only private home videos sleeping in people's houses.

This tour follows his sixth full album, NOISE FACE LANDSCAPE, released in May 2026, eight tracks written mainly between 2020 and 2026. It opens with “1000 Years Ago”, built from a stranger's 1990s home video of a trip to China — the local music and scenery on the tape, and the cameraman talking to himself. The Kyoto show is a full-band solo set, with support players Emerson Kitamura on keyboards, Yuichi Ushioda on guitar and Izumi Matsui on percussion, the album's core recording members; the record also features Korean Gyeonggi folk singer Lee Heemoon singing the peninsula folk song “Heung Taryeong”.

Booking

Advance ¥5,000 plus one drink charge. Official advance applications ran 28 September 18:00 to 5 October 23:59 via eplus; general sale from 17 October 10:00 via eplus, Lawson Ticket and Ticket Pia.