Save Morgan Salon (and Morgan Fisher) from Eviction!
Donation protected
モーガンサロンとモーガン・フィッシャー氏を立ち退きから守ろう!
Morgan Fisher is a veteran British rock keyboardist who rose to fame in the 60s and 70s, playing in some classic rock bands such as Love Affair, Mott the Hoople and Queen. He has never ceased to create original music, and for the past 39 years has lived in Tokyo, where he has collaborated with some of Japan's finest musicians, and composed music for numerous films and TV commercials.
Morgan Salon is his home, studio, and live performance space, where he has lived for 15 years. Here's a short video of Morgan taking us round the Salon:
モーガンがサロンを案内してくれた短いビデオはこちら:
(ここでお読みいただいている英語のテキストの全文日本語訳が含まれています)
Sadly, the Salon, and Morgan, are now facing imminent closure and eviction. This is not a nice prospect for a gent in his mid-70s.
Please consider lending your support so that Morgan Fisher can continue to live in peace, create music, and share this unique space with the many people who love to gather there!
モーガン・フィッシャー氏が 15 年間住み、活動の拠点としている自宅兼用のライブパフォーマンススペース 「モーガンサロン」が、閉鎖・立ち退きの差し迫った危機に直面しています! これからもモーガン・フィッシャー氏が安心して住み続け、音楽を創造し、そこに集う人々とまたとない時空間を 共有できますよう、皆様のお力を貸してください！
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Would you kindly take a few minutes to read this
personal message from Morgan:
"Morgan Salon is my home base, my creative studio, and above all a live music space (for up to 30 listeners) where I constantly meet and befriend music/culture lovers, both performers and audience. In the last 11 years I've organised hundreds of concerts and events in this house, which was purpose-built 40 years ago to be a piano school - thus it vibrates with the energy of music. It's by far the best place I've ever lived, in a quiet area of a big metropolis, with easy access to all it offers, very much like 45 years ago when I lived in Notting Hill Gate.
Many people attending the events here have commented how they enjoy this rare, intimate way to experience performances up close, with zero distractions, and be able to chat with the performers and each other while enjoying free wine and snacks supplied by yours truly. This place brings people together, friendships are formed, great conversations and collaborations happen, music blossoms - like this moment when I welcomed the New Year (and my birthday) with a favourite song last year:
Extraordinary artists such as Terry Riley, Jane Siberry, and The 5678s (yes, I'm completely genre-free!) have wowed this modest little place with their musical brilliance.
I love playing both my solo ambient keyboard gigs and my rock concerts-cum-talk shows here. I once performed the entire
"The Hoople" album - the only time it's ever been done!
Click here for a taste of that Hooplesque night
Visiting legends such as Richard Strange, Lisa Ronson, Woody Woodmansey and Hosono Haruomi of YMO
have hung out here and enjoyed the musical ambience (check out Lisa's T-shirt!) ...
So it is painful - and worrying - for me to consider that this may soon all have to come to an end. Why?
Well, the Covid pandemic had a devastating effect on musicians around the world. For two years here in Tokyo, no concerts were possible. In addition, a drastic economic recession in Japan (the yen is now at its lowest value in 34 years) has led to a sudden drop-off in the kinds of work that have always sustained me and Morgan Salon: writing music for films, videos and TV commercials. AI-generated music is not helping either. I've had to sell many of my rare keyboards in order to survive. My modest life savings have been swallowed up, and I've no company pension to support me in my golden years (I'll be 75 next January 1st).
Compared to the sudden recession, the recovery is slow and fitful. Even after increasing the number of concerts in the Salon, the income is still barely sufficient, and I'm being threatened with imminent eviction. My current rent contract - reasonably priced for a house of this size near central Tokyo - will renew in March 2025. If this rent and some practical costs can be covered up until that date, I'll breathe easier, and hopefully also be able to upgrade the studio with better PA and recording gear, and improved lighting and live-streaming equipment, so I can share these wonderful ongoing concerts worldwide.
Humbly, I'm reaching out to ask my friends, colleagues, fans and music lovers everywhere to help me over this current hurdle, so that from a stable home base, marvellous music and art of all kinds may continue to be created and shared, close-up and personal. All who contribute will be gratefully honoured by, among other things, inclusion in a Salon Supporters' list, to be displayed online and in the Salon entrance.
By the way, offers of work such as composing, touring, and remote sessions can be made directly to me via Facebook, X, or Instagram.
Thank you from my heart, for your kind consideration. After a lifetime making music, I have found this to be a perfect haven - an oasis where I can be vulnerable and improvise music straight from the heart. I cannot imagine a more ideal place for making and sharing music than Morgan Salon.
With love - Morgan."
モーガン・フィッシャー プロフィール：
A bit of a bio:
Morgan has constantly offered musical pleasure and originality worldwide since 1968. Born in London on 1950/1/1, his eclectic 56-year career as a keyboardist includes work with:
Love Affair, Third Ear Band, Mott the Hoople, British Lions, Medicine Head, Hanoi Rocks, Wayne County, Roger Daltrey, Mike Harrison, Queen, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Neil Innes, Dave Sinclair, Yoko Ono, Peter Buck, Robyn Hitchcock - and many others.
As well as being an A-list rock musician, Morgan's passion for almost every kind of music resulted in his curating the groundbreaking "Miniatures" album in 1980 (51 one-minute tracks by an extraordinary range of known and unknown music pioneers). In 1985 he moved to Japan and has lived in Tokyo ever since, honing a more personal, contemplative form of music while retaining links with his more rocking peers. In 2019 he performed brilliantly on the Mott the Hoople reunion tours in the US and UK, receiving the best reviews of their career.
In June 2013 Morgan started a series of solo concerts in the intimacy of his home studio, titled "Morgan's Organ At Home." This was a continuation of an incredible run of 100 monthly "Morgan's Organ" concerts he had generously given for free at Tokyo's legendary cutting-edge venue Superdeluxe. He started to receive requests from musicians who had attended his shows, that they too be able to perform in Morgan's place. So in April 2014 Morgan Salon was born:
Inspired by the salons of Paris in the 1920s (where on any given night, Debussy might come and play his new composition, Picasso could drop by bringing his latest painting, and Gertrude Stein would read an excerpt from her book-in-progress) Morgan Salon is a place where the creative and the curious are able to inspire and interact with like-minded individuals in a cosy, artistic environment. Morgan Salon has hosted hundreds of musical shows, talk events, photography seminars, film screenings, poetry readings, and even sake tastings!
There are precious few opportunities elsewhere in Tokyo for the kind of multi-genre, barrier-hopping, soul-enhancing experiences this convivial venue can provide, under Morgan's experienced guidance and care.
Morgan Salon - and Morgan - need and deserve, not eviction - but protection. Thank you!
Organizer
Morgan Fisher
Organizer