Debut London show for monster 9-piece Japanese big band combining Afro-grooves with traditional Japanese festival music.

Ajate use a unique combination of hand-made instruments to create their far-out, hybrid sounds including, “the Jahte – a bamboo-made xylophone or balafon with a piezo pick-up mic attached to each key” and the “Piechiku – a bamboo-made string instrument inspired by the west-African Ngoni or Moroccan Guembri instruments with strings of the Japanese Shamisen.

"Fela Kuti-esque funk with a Nippon twist . . . a kaleidoscopic, joyful ride that merges afrofunk with traditional Ohayashi music”  The Vinyl Factory

Ticket : £15 + £1.50 booking fee