If you relocate to the Kansai region and are interested in live music, you\u2019ll be pleased to hear that there is a vibrant music scene spanning many genres. Japan has a good reputation internationally for producing artists from pop to avant garde, and Kansai is a hub where you can find a number of thriving scenes that have produced many successful artists.<\/p>\n
Kansai\u2019s rock music scene is alive and well, with many venues across its cities attracting national and international as well as local talent. Osaka has several stores around the Umeda area and venues across the city such as\u00a0Live House BRONZE<\/a>,\u00a0Umeda Zeela<\/a>, and\u00a0Teradacho Fireloop<\/a>\u00a0that advertise gigs throughout the week. In Kobe, you can check out more underground indie and punk sounds at\u00a0Helluva Lounge<\/a>\u00a0while many acts also play at\u00a0Nagomibar<\/a>. Kyoto, meanwhile, has the trendy\u00a0Metro<\/a>\u00a0that is popular with the younger generation.<\/p>\n Japan has gained a reputation over the past few decades for doing noisy experimental music very well. Growing out of the punk scene in the late 1970s, noise rock grew in the 80s and 90s. Kansai developed a thriving underground scene and the \u201cKansai Noise Scene\u201d rivalled the Tokyo indie scene with artists such as the Boredoms and Haijokaidan pushing the boundaries. The movement, known globally as \u201cJapanoise\u201d, is still going strong today with Osaka-based artists\u00a0Incapacitants<\/a>,\u00a0Masonna<\/a>, and\u00a0Solmania<\/a>\u00a0at the forefront, and venues such as Namba BEARS<\/a> regularly putting on acts. Meanwhile, Kyoto\u2019s\u00a0Urban Guild<\/a>\u00a0art space is worth keeping an eye on for interesting gigs.<\/p>\n Another movement that is infused with the experimental spirit, Kansai\u2019s electronic music scene has grown rapidly in recent years thanks to social media and venues such as Osaka\u2019s\u00a0Live Space CONPASS<\/a> and\u00a0Compufunk Records<\/a>, and Kyoto\u2019s\u00a0West Harlem<\/a>. If you\u2019re looking for cutting-edge sounds from Kansai, give a listen to the likes of\u00a0Yulippe<\/a>,\u00a0Metome<\/a>, and\u00a0Le Makeup<\/a>.<\/p>\n Believe it or not, those distinct soul sounds that got northern England dancing at the Wigan Casino in the 1960s and 70s are currently going down a storm in Kobe and Osaka. Nude Restaurant is a hugely popular monthly night at Kobe\u2019s\u00a0JamJam<\/a>\u00a0club. Meanwhile, Osaka has the\u00a0Milk Bar<\/a>\u00a0that plays a variety of 1960s and 70s soul from across the sub-genres.<\/p>\n If chilling out in relaxed or dimly lit jazz joints is your bag, there are a few places across Kansai worth checking out. In Kobe, the aforementioned JamJam club has live musicians and DJs playing everything from classic to Brazilian club jazz. Elsewhere, you can enjoy great cocktails with your live jazz at Sone<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile,\u00a0Music Club Janus<\/a>\u00a0in Shinsaibashi, Osaka offers up a range of musical acts including purveyors of fine jazz and funk.\u00a0Lush Life<\/a>, next to Kyoto\u2019s Demachiyanagi Station, is a tiny jazz caf\u00e9 supplying coffee, alcohol, vinyl, and exclusive live performances from local jazz talent.\u00a0Zac Baran<\/a>, also in Kyoto, books gigs from jazz artists as well as blues and soul talent.<\/p>\n Japan, like much of the Western world, had its hippie counter-cultural revolution in the 1960s that gave birth to psychedelic, progressive and folk-rock artists such as Itsusu No Akai Fusen and Ryo Kagawa. Kansai has played an important role<\/a>\u00a0in that development, and today the influence of the scene lives on in places such as Osaka\u2019s\u00a0Folk Rock Bar Phoebe<\/a>\u00a0that is crammed full of vinyl and nick-nacks from eras gone by. You can also catch the odd live act here. It\u2019s not just Japanese folk music that has made waves. In downtown Kyoto, you can head to\u00a0Field<\/a>\u00a0and hear traditional Irish folk music while sipping on a fine pint of Guinness.<\/p>\n Kansai Music Conference<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 annual event held in Osaka to promote the Kansai music scene<\/p>\n Asacyan [CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>], from Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you relocate to the Kansai region and are interested in live music, you\u2019ll be pleased to hear that there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,165,118,85,86],"tags":[72,74,119,120,168,169],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-kobe","category-kyoto","category-miscellaneous","category-osaka","tag-hyogo-prefecture","tag-kobe-city","tag-kyoto-city","tag-kyoto-prefecture","tag-osaka-city","tag-osaka-prefecture"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51669,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/51669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Noise\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
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