All Dressed Up
September 16, 2009 – 9:41 amBy Shawn Despres
Being brought to South Korea for a trio of gigs by ambitious promotion/ booking organization Super Color Super, this weekend marks the first time Tokyo’s Henna Dress will perform outside of her native Japan. The self-dubbed “outsider artist” has been making electronic music with Nintendo Game Boys for more than a decade. She currently uses a Nintendo DS as well along with several other goodies to hash out her minimalist, eclectic soundscapes.
Henna Dress has released a few discs and appeared on a handful of compilations. Her “Rocochan Plays Gameboy Camera” album can be downloaded for free from record label LALALA4E’s official site or MySpace page. When not working on her own material, she also plays as part of Celeryman and collaborates with American experimental musician Agoostus under the moniker Henna & Agoostus.
An avid doodler, Henna Dress combines two of her main passions in this music video for for “Ring (excerpt).”
Here are Henna Dress’ Korean tour dates:
Thursday, September 17 Seoul @ Mudaeryuk
Friday, September 18 Daegu @ Club MP
Saturday, September 19 Seoul @ Obeg (as part of Round Robin)
For more information, visit our Coming Events calendar.
