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| From left to right: Zen Takamura (Ba.), Rui Anarai (ex-Dr.), Kazuha Oda (Vo.) & Hideki Matsuhide (Gt.) |
On Saturday,
25 August, I went to see the band Kazha (pronounced Kazuha) at the
convention Abunai in the Netherlands. I hadn't heard about them
before, but they've only toured Japan & America so far. This was
their first performance in Europe.
The day
before the concert I had a chance to see the band members, with the
exception of the bassist. They were selling their merchandise and
would sign the CD if asked. All of the
members were sweet people and made some small talk. I was surprised
by the fact that all of them spoke English quite well, but after I
got home I learned that most of them either grew up in America or
live there now.
The evening
of the concert there were more people than I expected since Kazha is
not a well known band. When we got to enter the performance room we
had to wait yet an other half hour, and when the band finally got on
stage there were problems with the microphone. The rest of the band
kept playing while vocalist Kazuha tried to make the best out of it
until the equipment worked.
Kazuha had
no problem to get the crowd going. The biggest part of the crowd
participated and kept cheering. That was until a tear-jerking song
started. “UNMEI ~運命~”
was a song written for the band's Japanese friends who had lost their
lives during the Tohoku disaster on 11 March 2011.
A little
later Rod, the drummer for this tour, got a solo. He got the crowd
going and every one was even more excited when the rest came back on
stage. Kazuha talked to the crowd and said that they had been
searching for a popular Dutch song to cover but that they couldn't
find one. So they chose to cover “Don't
stop believing” by Journey, to the crowd's great pleasure I might
add. They pulled 7 people on stage to dance with them. It was fun to
watch the energy coming from both the band and the audience.
Before the
other members got their solo, Kazuha talked to us about the
pronunciation of the band name. “It's not Kazha or Kazja, but
Kazuha! It was taken from my name. Let's say it all together! KA ZU
HA, KA ZU HA!” The bands name was screamed a couple of times before
they moved on and bassist Zen got his solo.
Right before
the encore Kazuha said that they wanted to come back to Europe to do
a tour. If they come back, I would really recommend to go. Kazha is a
great band with an amazing energy, and they love to interact with
their fans.
I took also some pictures at the concert:
And someone uploaded a small part of the performance on YouTube:
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