Kawol SamarQandi, Miki Naoe, Kiyomitsu Odai

microcosmic folklore

Kawol SamarQandi, guitar & voice

Miki Naoe, radio

Kiyomitsu Odai, computer & synthesizer

August 4 (Tue.) 2026 open 18:45 | start 19:30

Boiler Room

2-2-14 Nishiogi Kita Suginami-ku, Tokyo

Kishi Corpo B1F

Tickets:

advance ¥3,000 | at the door ¥3,500

+ 1 drink order

For reservation, please email: boilerroom.nishiogikubo@gmail.com

Perfomers' Biographies

Kawol SamarQandi:

He was born in the port town on October 7.
as a child, the first music he listened to was the noise of
shortwave radio and hymns.
He began writing poetry at the age of 6.
He began to playing guitar and singing at the age of 12.
He began composing at the age of 14.
He joined the fringe of the Tokyo new wave music scene at the age of 17. then he has performed as a odd singer-songwriter in a variety of venues.
Mid-20s, he wandered about North Africa (Tunisia) and the Mediterranean region and studied Arabic traditional music under Mr. Ali Sriti.
After performing theater solo concert, festivals, TV appearances, etc. there, returned to Japan, he did a lot of commercial work (e.g. “City pop”) as a guitarist, arranger, composer, lyric writer and vocalist in recording studios, on the airwaves, and on tour.
In 1997, he launched his private label PLAKA for EARDRUM.
In the new century, he began his lifework of creating non-nationality “poor” music by improvising with only his faltering guitar and trembling voice.
And he collaborates with musicians across borders (sometimes face to face, sometimes on the Internet) to make works and to perform in various places.
In 2007, he formed REFUGEES with Mary Meacha Goldfish.
In August 2021, Ramble Records (Australia) released vinyl record album “silence, notes and structures 1”.
In April 2024, he was invited by the Sharjah Art Foundation to perform solo and REFUGEES concerts and workshops in UAE.
Same month, Ramble Records released CD album “Noli me tangere”.
In 2025 October, he will release a brand new vinyl record album called “energeia” recorded in a historical place in Sharjah, UAE.
And also, he and Meacha are scheduled to perform in Athens, Greece.
the will to keep listening attentively to the world through
the austerely and beautiful silences, notes and structures of improvisation.

Miki Naoe:

Born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture in 1967, Miki Naoe currently lives in Yokohama.

Acclaimed as one and only performer of shortwave radio, he has played his Sony CF-5950 in real time and with no beforehand preparation for a wide variety of audiences inside and outside Japan since 2000.

He has improvised solo as well as collaborated with the artists of various categories that range from music to physical performing arts: to name a few, Keiichi Suzuki and Morio Agata.

Since 2012, he has also participated in numerous units and bands such as MIKIKAWOL (duo unit with Kawol SamarQandi), Shingetsu, jelly rope, NÖM, rakkyo-nite, YOGAN trio.

In 2021, he released the long-awaited complete solo album, "solos," which contains the grand noise suite that he created only with his radio.

Kiyomitsu Odai:

Kiyomitsu Odai is a composer/improviser born and brought up in Tokyo, Japan. After receiving a B.A. in law from Waseda University (Tokyo), he moved to the U.S. and started his artistic career.

As an improviser (piano and computer), he has performed at numerous venues including Hotti Biscotti, WNUR (Chicago), Muddy Waters (Santa Barbara), and Dům kultury Vítkovice (Ostrava, Czech Republic). Journalist Josef Woodard mentions him as a “striking musically neo-expressionist keyboardist” in Santa Barbara News-Press.

As a composer, he has adopted multidisciplinary (mathematical, psychoacoustic, linguistic, algorithmic, etc.) approaches to his own music, pursuing the “transcendental structures” that spiritually overcome the systems within themselves. He has participated in a number of music festivals and international conferences including Ostrava Days and ICMC, and worked with both professional and non-professional orchestras; Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, for example, featured his Passacaglia di Fibonacci in 2011. The recording of another orchestral piece of his, Menetekel：「あー、いぬ。アーメン。」, as well as his own paper on it, was published in the 22nd volume of Leonardo Music Journal in 2012.

He has studied with Don Malone, Hilda Paredes, Roscoe Mitchell, Curtis Roads, and Clarence Barlow. He holds a Ph.D. in music composition from University of California, Santa Barbara.