Sayaka Botanic and HUH (Japan)

Japanese noise rock improv duo HUH return to Australia, touring alongside experimental pioneer Sayaka Botanic. Local support comes from Jacques Emery performing Giant Shimmer, and a rare duo set by Hinano Fujisaki and Mitch Elliott.

Sayaka Botanic brings together instruments, electronics, magnetic tape, and fragments of voice, setting sonic and visual experiments in dialogue. Identifying the origin of a sound is deliberately elusive, as textures mutate and voices partially emerge without fully revealing themselves. Her latest release, Nonexistent Landscape, presents an imaginary terrain that invites detachment from reality and movement toward an outside that may not seem welcoming, but is nonetheless inhabitable.

HUH are a freeform-freakout / noise improvisation duo formed in Tokyo by Kyosuke Terada (guitar/voice) and Takuma Mori (drums/voice). They explore melting points of groove and noise through free-form improvisation, drawing from junk rock, no wave, punk, and free jazz. Their gigs unfold over dozens of minutes and are described as fierce and ephemeral.

Jacques Emery presents Giant Shimmer, a polyrhythmic percussion suite for drum kit, singing bowls, and a detuned 12-string electric guitar played with drumsticks. Through this instrumentation, Emery explores the ethereal and the ecstatic, as microtonal harmonies give rise to rapid sticking workouts on drums and metallic percussion—a hypnotic barrage of “acoustic glitch.”

Hinano Fujisaki and Mitch Elliott will open the night in duo formation. Fujisaki is an Eora/Sydney-based composer, improviser, and saxophonist active across jazz, improvised, ambient, experimental, and noise music. Elliott is a musician who uses synthesiser and laptop to create immersive live performances, moving between extremes of beauty and brutality, minimalism and maximalism. For this special performance, Fujisaki and Elliott explore current works in progress, possibly never to be heard the same way again.

Instagram @sayaka_botanic @terrordada (HUH) @jacques.pze @mtchlltt @hinafuji

This is an 18+ Show.

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Getting to The PBC! Access to the club and main stage is via 12 stairs at the front of the venue. We are not wheelchair accessible currently but we are working on it! There is free, untimed parking on the avenue and Brighton Street and drop off / pick up is available via our driveway.

Access to the green room / downstairs stage is via 15 stairs down onto the ground level. If you have special access needs please email or call us ahead of time and we will do our best to plan with you and help you into the club.

The Petersham Bowling Club acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which this show takes place and pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and emerging and extend those respects to the First Nations peoples of NSW and beyond.