EDO WAVE史上最年長であり、最もユニークな音楽を魅せるカナダの「Kathleen Yearwood」が新宿LOFT・EDO WAVE 2026に来日🇨🇦 絶対に見逃すな！

Kathleen Yearwood (Canada)

｢私はプロのミュージシャンとして50年間も活動してきました。｣

《 I have been a professional musician for 50 years.》

フォーク音楽からキャリアをスタートし、徐々にエレキギターへと転向しました。

2020年からは、エレキギター、声楽、コントラバスのための長尺楽曲を作曲しています。そして、私は高度な声楽技法を駆使し、ギターは弓奏を多用します。

私の楽曲は社会的な思想を反映しており、数年間、刑務所廃止運動の支援者として活動した経験があります。また、1980年代からカナダにおける植民地主義や「盗まれた音楽」という概念について発言してきました。

私の音楽はすべてケルト音楽に根ざしていますが、その影響は緻密な即興演奏とノイズの爆発的な響きの中に深く埋もれています。北欧やスカンジナビア半島を広くツアーし、ノルウェーのベルゲンでは短期間ながら「カナダからの声」として知られていました。

1980年代からレコーディング作品をリリースしており、これまでにフルアルバムCDを約18枚、そしてイギリスのFuture Graveレーベルからアナログ盤も数枚リリースしています。幅広いアーティストとコラボレーションしており、今年も他のミュージシャンとの共同制作作品を複数リリースする予定です。

I began in the folk tradition and slowly began to be an electric guitarist.

I have since 2020 been composing long - form pieces for electric guitar, voices and contrabass. I am comfortable with extended vocal techniques and I play guitar with a bow much of the time.

My compositions and songs speak to some social ideas, I worked as a prison abolitionist support person for a few years, and I have spoken about colonialism in Canada since the 80's, as well as the concept of “stolen music.”

Everything I do is rooted in Celtic music, but that influence is deeply buried under structured improvisation and outbursts of noise.

I have toured extensively in Northern Europe and Scandinavia, for a short time in Bergen, Norway, I was known as “The Voice From Canada.”

I have been releasing recordings since the 80's as well, in total about 18 full- length cds and some vinyl that came out of The UK on Future Grave label.

I collaborate widely and am looking forward to several releases this year with other musicians.

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I spent my deformative years in a land with an active genocide. I lit out to get back to Europe but poverty pulled me back. I look hopeful on that passport photo.

Nobody wanted me to go into the arts.

My working-class background told me not to, but I did. Everything else was like leaving a helpless child unattended. I tend to it now.’ 

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You’ve had a long-spanning career, but for those meeting you for the first time, Can you briefly introduce yourself?

I’m basically from a class that doesn’t produce artists. I’m from a class that doesn’t support the arts and doesn’t believe that the arts is a job, a real job. So I just did it on social assistance, mostly. I was never funded or subsidized in the arts. 

I did well under the poverty line, often in cold and starvation, food insecurity and housing, but I still made art because that was the sacrifice. I wanted to do that, and I didn’t have any support, so I just did it. And this place, here in the forest, is my first real home, and we built this ourselves (with my partner), and I’ve had more freedom here to actually just work – to not have to spend as much time surviving. That took a while, but happened.

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KATHLEEN YEARWOOD

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EDO WAVE 2026

NOVEMBER 29 SUN

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