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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz, Avant-Garde, Free Jazz
Makigami Koichi: Voice, Producer
Allan Tucker Mastering
James Biggs Assistant Engineer
John Harris Engineer
John Zorn Executive Producer
Makigami Koichi is the leader of one of Japan's longest running underground bands, Hikashu, which has evolved from an electronic pop band to embrace world music, improvisation, noise and other styles. Makigami has recorded two previous albums on his own, including the star-studded, Zorn-produced Koroshi No Blues, a much sought-after import on Toshiba-EMI Japan. He has performed with Derek Bailey and Yamatsuka Eye, and is also the organizer of the monthly Tokyo performance of John Zorn's improvisational game piece, Cobra.
An accomplished film and stage actor, Makigami is an incredible vocalist and performer, employing creative and versatile techniques blending Tuuvan throat-singing (which he studied in Mongolia) and Japanese traditions with rock and avant garde. Kuchinoha, his first album for solo voice, contains nine improvisations of vocal acrobatics. No effects, no overdubs, no edits - it's creative, humorous and utterly delightful.
On Kuchinoha, Hikashu vocalist Koichi blends Tuvan throat-singing (picked up during a stint in Mongolia) and Japanese traditions with avant-garde and rock leanings. The result is a record composed purely of improvised solo vocals--no overdubs, no effects, and no edits. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Makigami Koichi
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Avntg, Jazz
Styles: Alternative/Indie Rock, Free Improvisation, Noise-Rock
Listeners who have heard this Japanese avant garde vocalist in action would not be surprised to find out his background was in theatre, beginning in 1973 with the Tokyo Kid Brothers group. In the next few years his stage activity included a tour of the musical entitled The City in both New York and London as well as work in the latter city with the local theatre group Lumiere and Son, with whom he appeared in the play Tip Top Condition, a script that required actors to be in just that. By the middle of this decade he had formed his own theatre group, bravely naming it Ulysses and embarking on a voyage through the rigors of various stage productions, some of which he directed and some of which he performed in. Some of the company's works involving both theatre and drama were also basically the germs of what would evolve into his membership in the extremely innovative music group Hikashu, which would release its debut album 20 Seiki No Owari Ni in 1979. Four more albums by the group followed on the Japanese Toshiba label, and the first solo albums by Makigami showed up in 1982.
While this period heralded a greater emphasis on music in his activities, the vocalist also continued working in the theatre. In 1987 there was an important collaboration with the Spanish playwright F.Arrabal. Makigami acted in a production of Daitenrei or Le Grand Ceremonial, directed by Arrabel himself. In the same year he also performed in Kafka, a so-called "chamber opera" by composer Takahashi Yuji. The interest in both music and theatre could naturally lead to ballet, and in the case of Makigami this was also the year of his joining forces with former Royal Ballet director Nicholas Dickson to create the ballet group with the almost mocking name of Tutuland Academy. By the end of the 80's a new series of activity with musicians from the international avant garde scene had begun, including an appearance with live computer artist Carl Stone in Los Angeles. Hikashu was of course continuing its activities, which included a decision that would make the group the curse of proofreaders internationally, including five years in a row of citations on the infamous proofreading "hit list." Hikashu changed its name to Hikasu, and the only people in the music business that were thrilled about it were the notoriously lazy bar employees who change the lettering on marquees. Makigami charged ahead with high powered vocal experimentation, performing with David Moss in New York City, then surprising his audience by joining Umezu Kazutoki's klezmer band Betzuni Nanmo Klezmer as lead singer, making him about the closest thing to a Japanese cantor that has ever existed.
In the ‘90s he performed with Derek Bailey, Ikue Mori, Samm Bennett, Fred Frith, Otomo Yoshihide, Senba Kiyohiko and Yokota Yoshimi. He produced a debut album for the Mongolian female vocalist Solongo in 1994 and continued special tours with Hikasu. There was a significant avant garde theatre collaboration with New York's brilliant Richard Foreman, resulting in Makigami directing Foreman's Tokyo production of The Mind King. In 1997, theatre activity included performances in two Yuji Takahashi plays, Kisyokyo and Nemonogatari and in the following year he wrote and directed the Japanese production Xomyc. Musical collaborations as the ‘90s drew to a close included tours with the fine cellist Erik Friedlander, accordionist Ted Reichman and trumpeter Frank London. In 2000 he began another project with Foreman and presented a series of concerts in New Zealand.
---Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide |
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