WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA put on a performance at Reborn-Art Festival 2017 on August 31st which was streamed live. The festival is currently being held at Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture.

The Reborn-Art Festival has been ongoing since July 22nd and is taking place in the Oshika Peninsula in the Ishinomaki city center. An arts, food and music festival, this year the event will run until September 10th and is a program based around hearing music being played somewhere each day across 51 days. As part of this program, WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA live streamed a show at Oginohama in the heart of the Oshika Peninsula.

The performance opened in a dark and mystical forest located at a local port in Oginohama where we see colourful oyster shells being used as buoys

KOM_I appeared from the smoke wearing red and orange balloons, beginning the artsy performance with the song “Gogh.” Basked in rays of light, her orange coloured hair and mollusc-like movements went hand-in-hand, making her look like some kind of fairy emerging from the forest. The fairy came from the woods and singing her song looked as if she was waiting to see how the land lies.

The peculiar outfit designed from life-like balloons was created by Toshio Takeda who has worked with balloon unit Daisy Balloon which is made up of balloon artist Rie Hosokai and graphic designer and art director Takashi Kawada, whose work is also on display at Reborn-Art Festival 2017.

The next song performed was a remix of WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA’s most well-known song “Momotaro,” a version which has been featured on their set-list at recent festivals.

KOM_I comes into contact with the buoys, rides a small boat that has washed ashore, frolics around a white deer, a piece of art titled “White Deer(Oshika)” by Kōhei Nawa, all while moving towards the centre of the beach.

During the final song, “Marco Polo,” KOM_I walks steadily towards the pitch black coast of the waters, parallel with the intro, while crossing with the shining light in the background as she plays with the waves. She is left at the shoreline at the end of the video and looks across the water towards us, presenting to us a slightly melancholic scene

Despite the announcement of this show being on the same day as it was performed, it brought in around 30,000 viewers across KOM_I’s Instagram, WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA’s official Twitter account, and on Reborn-Art Fes’s official Instagram page.。

The whole stream is available to watch on WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA’s official YouTube channel, so be sure to check it out below.

【WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA LIVE RECORD (170831 Ishinomaki, Oginohama)】

Continuing their streak from August, WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA are set to perform at festivals around Japan in September. Starting from October, they will also be performing at two cities in Taiwan before heading to Los Angeles to perform at Tyler, the Creator’s music festival “CAMP FLOG GNAW CARNIVAL 2017.”

As WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA continue to experiment with captivating music and visuals, let us all keep on our toes in anticipation of what kind of performances we can expect from them in the coming months.