Tenjo No Ao, translated from Japanese, means ‘Azure of the Heavens’. This is the title of a bold new project featuring three unique musicians: Kaoru Watanabe, shinobue, ryuteki & Japanese percussion, Sarah Pagé, harp, koto & bass koto, and Patrick Graham, percussion.

Tenjo No Ao is a manifestation of sounds alternately celestial and terrestrial, invoking gagaku and other traditional music of Japan, transformed through prisms of original composition, textural improvisation, acoustic spatialization and electronic manipulation.

For their premiere concert collaboration at the 2022 Festival of the Centre des Musiciens du Monde, Kaoru Watanabe, Sarah Pagé and Patrick Graham will use the entire space of Église Saint-Enfant-Jésus as their instrument, creating an immersive sound experience that will resound both the ground beneath the audience and the sky above them…