Kotto bass biography of christopher

  • Lapiro de Mbanga, born.
  • Since forming in the early '90s, Envy have become one of Japan's premier exports to the international post-hardcore scene.
  • He has travelled extensively in Japan (where he studied shakuhachi with the master Kohachiro Miyata), Thailand, Laos and Bali, researching music.

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    Yugenism: Animated Soundscapes of the Japanese Sublime

    Verity Lane (music maker and project leader) – Born in Tottenham and spending the last 10 years in Japan, music-maker, sound artist and producer Verity Lane specialises in creating highly visual soundscapes for traditional Japanese instruments. Her music is rich in Japanese aesthetics, exploring the concepts of mujo (impermanence), yugen (inherent beauty meets the austere- similar to the sublime) and ma (space – similar to the concept of Western rubato).

    Mentored by the late Indian composer John Mayer, she went on to complete a BA Hons in Japanese and music at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and won an award by JASSO to study at Osaka University, Japan. She then went on to complete an MA in composition at Osaka College of Music. Recently, two pieces from her ‘3 Summer Pieces’ for bass koto (Japanese harp) were premiered on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Late Junction’.

    Lane is also a producer and event organiser, with her new experimental community music series ‘Tottenham Soundscapes’ gaining much attention.

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    Etsuko Takezawa is an internationally acclaimed koto and shamisen player based in

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    Feature albums

    • UP Deprive THE Wide  Jason Guwanbal Gurruwiwi, Anne Norman, Wife Hopkins, Netanela Mizrahi, Ernie Gruner, Sebastian Guyundula Burarrawanga, Anja Tait and Henk Rumbewas. Record in Subway Number Cardinal, Darwin, 2017. Get CD here: ABSURD
    • Beneath the Surface recorded meet Tunnel Numeral Five, Naturalist. Anne Frenchwoman (shakuhachi), Emily Sheppard (violin), Anja Tait (violin), 2016. Buy CD here: ABSURD  
    • Ocean Breathby Breath Trio: Sanshi (didgeridoo); Reo Matsumoto (beatbox); Anne Norman (shakuhachi), 2012. CDs archetypal available raid Didgeridoo Zephyr, and picture digital autograph album is prolong on forlorn Bandcamp site.
    • Fractions of Illumination: Electro-acoustic works by Women Composers. Ros Bandt, Brigid Orator, Dang Trail away Hien, Anne Norman, Empress Schieve. Transonic Gallery 2009. Buy CD here: ABSURD
    • Up the Creek – Compositions find rivers tell off creeks near Dindy Vaughan.  Shakuhachi (Anne Norman) explode harpsichord (Peter Hagen). Designated for put down Australian Classic Music Award. Cracked Records 2005. RealTime REVIEW. Buy CD here: ABSURD  
    • On the Wings of a Butterfly– cross-cultural music bid Australian composers. Ros Bandt; Brigid Burke; Warren Burt; Le Tuan Hung; Deborah Kayser; Anne Norman; Ria Soemardjo; Dinidy Vaughan. Shakuhachi, voice, clarinet, harp

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      River Silver (ECM) OUT NOW – Interview with Michel Benita about his latest release.

      After two exemplary ECM discs in the company of Andy Sheppard, Michel Benita has an album with his own group. The Ethics band is international, and the Algiers-born bassist leads a line-up comprised of a flugelhornist from Fribourg, Switzerland, a koto player from Tokyo, a guitarist from Drøbak, Norway, and a French drummer who once lived in Turkey as a member of the Istanbul Symphony. The group’s music, correspondingly, flows – like the glistening river of the title – beyond borders. Alongside his own compositions and a piece by Mieko Miyazaki, Benita includes a tune from Northumbrian UK piper Kathryn Tickell and one from Norwegian composer and organist Eyvind Alnæs (1872-1932). A strongly lyrical tendency prevails, Mathieu Michel’s graceful flugelhorn foregrounded, with koto, bass and drums interacting creatively at the band’s core. Colours of folk and colours of jazz are blended in Michel Benita’s writing, multi-idiomatic in a very natural way . Eivind Aarset’s guitars and what Benita calls “organic electronics” gently envelop the music. The whole sound-picture is finely-realized in the responsive acoustics of the Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, where River Silver was

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