Tim Hodgkinson & Atsuko Kamura w/ Eddie Prévost, Zheng Hao + Zhuyang Liu

Atsuko Kamura / vocals, kb, electronics Tim Hodgkinson / reeds, lap steel guitar, kb, electronics

"In early 2024 we started work on the project that became the Haiku in the Wide World CD - 37 settings of mostly traditional haiku poems translated by Harry Gilonis, spoken in English by Tim Hodgkinson and sung in Japanese by Kamura. In September 2024 we toured a live version in Japan, then played LEM Festival in Barcelona and the 100 Years Gallery in London. We developed a new programme of settings of Suga Kanno’s poems in December 2025, premiered at Cafe Oto. Then a 15-date tour of Japan in summer 2026 with Japanese release of Songs of Resistance Kanno Suga CD. Joined by Otomo Yoshihide, Sabu Toyozumi, Haco, Yagi Michiyo, Kawabata Makoto, and many others. For our EU tour in November 2026 we will present our live Haiku project with improvisations and additional songs from the Suga Kanno poems."

"Haiku in the Wide World “a dancing, shifting terrain of life moving through the seasons and the comings and goings of the moon and sun. This project is a unique world, distinctly different from what either Hodgkinson and Kamura have previously accomplished." – Hidzir Junaini, Bandwagon Asia, April 2025

“Given the economy of the haiku form, the album is remarkably expressive in both its emotional and intellectual range. Through Hodgkinson’s sparing arrangements of his own clarinet and electronic sonics, plus occasional viola, violin and cello, each track launches or mirrors the reflective, descriptive or dialectical play of the chosen haiku’s words, as fully realised by Kamura.” – Biba Kopf in The Wire.