2018. Ché-SHIZU is one of the most original and mystifying groups to ever emerge from Japan's musical underground. Founded by master improviser Chie Mukai in 1981 the group has been guided by her singular vis..

2012. For more than 15 years, Tokyo, Japan's Tenniscoats have been keyboardist/vocalist Saya and guitarist Takashi Ueno. The duo have brought equal parts meditative intensity and whimsical humour to a series of acc..

2017. Satomi Saeki Bio Born in Miyazaki, Japan, Satomi Saeki was introduced to Japanese traditional music by her father, a shakuhachi-player and -maker. She studied koto (horizontal harp), sangen/shamisen (3-s..

2019. Few label founders loom as large in the history of underground music as P.S.F. Record's Hideo Ikeezumi. Over three decades and more than 200 titles, Ikeezumi's intensely critical ear guided and assembled a bod..

2022. The master improviser Chie Mukai, who has long fascinated the world as one of the representives of the Japanese psychedelic/improvisation scene, and the young guitarist Yonju Miyaoka, who has produced as Shuko..