Kanpai Records

TEST SHOT STARFISH
RECORD RELEASE PARTY!

Date: Friday, June 10, 2005
Time: 7pm – midnight

Location: The Transplant Gallery - 525 W.29th Street, New York, NY 10001

Sponsored by:

www.atomicamagazine.com

It’s true…
Test Shot Starfish is leaving the LA sunshine (and dark studio)
for a very special visit to NY!

To celebrate their upcoming release on Kanpai Records (due this summer),
Test Shot Starfish will be doing a special performance at the Transplant Gallery.
This night of art and music will feature a multimedia installation and live musical
performance by Test Shot Starfish, as well as video works by world renowned
video artist Takagi Masakatsu (Apple, Herman Miller, Agnes b., Cornelius).
Additional visual art by the legendary Keiichi Tanaami will also be on display.

Video Art By: Test Shot Starfish & Takagi Masakatsu

Guest DJs: BDK (Art Vote, Pratt Institute) and Tony Schloss (Prototokyo, Dust Brothers)

FREE CD giveaways to all guests, all night long!

RSVP to: info@kanpairecords.com

www.transplantny.com

www.testshotstarfish.com
www.takagimasakatsu.com
www.transplantny.com/bio/tanaami.keiichi.html
www.prototokyo.com
www.atomicamagazine.com

Takagi Masakatsu

Currently living in Kyoto, Takagi Masakatsu's works are an extraordinary fusion of profound, universal, colorful pop video works and originally produced music. His art effortlessly crosses over borders such as the music, clubbing, fashion, and art scenes. Takagi began working solo in 2001, attracting a large following with his high level fusion of sound and visuals. His activities transcend over various fields such as music, club culture, fashion and art scene -he's done several video installations at high profile art spaces and has had numerous live performances. Takagi has also released CDs and DVDs both in Japan and overseas. He has been involved in several projects in Europe, the Far East and the United States, the most recent of which with David Slyvian's 18 city tour of Europe, for which Takagi was in charge of visuals for the stage.

Keiichi Tanaami

Keiichi Tanaami’s creative style brimming with psychedelic power has made him extremely popular with today’s youth. He was a pioneer of magazine design in the 1960s and is a veteran of avant-garde and underground cultures. Each work, be it poster, experimental animation, or 3D image, exudes his unique, super graphic worldview represented by an outrageous use of psychedelic colors, infinitely expanding screen dots, and menacingly whirling curves. Worthy of note is the fact he enjoys support from today’s youth, who are often said to lack historical awareness. Their support goes beyond mere “worshipping the antediluvian patriarch”, as they sense a kind of “newness” in his work. The psychedelic revolution experienced by Tanaami, who moved to America in the mid 60’s, was crucial as it showed that ”other realities” are possible through the expansion of consciousness. Bonding that experience to his unique, psychotherapeutic approach in which he dug up and drew on his own deep memories and dreams on a daily basis the succeeded in exteriorizing an unconscious power through the conscious method of graphics. The iconographic power of Tanaami’s work comprises the superhuman volume emanating from this unconscious power and the amazing fruition of his method of control.

Tanaami’s activity is a conduit for the unconscious desire of young people for a power that can be directly and physically sensed in our present age of diluted historical consciousness. It is the trance-like graphic power of an age that went beyond conscious ”design”.