Music
A thin, reedy voice escapes from an enormous dog that is pumping the bellows of an old harmonium. This is Jon, a great scruffy dog that sings stories about his dog’s life, the cats in the district and supper time. The minimalist lyrics are sung with surprising conviction. It is a performance for the less absurd that plunges us into an environment that is strange, amusing and nostalgic at the same time.
Born in 1972, Shoko Uehara started to sing at a very early age by imitating the sounds coming from the television. His parents pushed her into studying classical piano, which she did from her fingertips. For her first performances, she appeared in pyjamas covered with cow prints, then, from 1997, took the next logical step and introduced a repertory whose main theme was a dog, dressing up in an enormous long-haired wolf costume and becoming Jon (The Dog). She has made 4 albums, with the latest, Hekkomu Disk, appearing on the Enban label.
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