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Akira Horikoshi (Drums&Percussion)
Akira Horikashi was born April 24th, 1965 in Tokyo.
At age thirteen he begun playing drums. He studied under Kazuhilo Ebisawa and Syuichi "PONTA" Murakami. (They are Jazz musicians) He loves Japanese traditional music deeply from the influence of his father who is the master of "Japanese dancing".
Though the method of the jazz drum is his basic form, he is developing the original play style which exceeded all genres by mixing many elements such as Japanese music and folk music, also contemporary and classic freely.
He has been already going through various Units now, he interprets the play action as some necessary body performance, and he starts the project which has a theme to the search of the space production and the expression of the sound as an Asian. "TOHO-IBUN(東方異聞)" by the organization with the Japanese traditional instruments such as Satsuma biwa(a kind of lute), Japanese bamboo flute, and so on. The drum solo performance "SOLO-ist" which is the general space production that Masato's kinetic objects surrounded percussion instruments. He carries out original activities like these. He has two classes of drum school in Tokyo now.
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Akira Horikashi was born April 24th, 1965 in Tokyo.
At age thirteen he begun playing drums. He studied under Kazuhilo Ebisawa and Syuichi "PONTA" Murakami. (They are Jazz musicians) He loves Japanese traditional music deeply from the influence of his father who is the master of "Japanese dancing".
Though the method of the jazz drum is his basic form, he is developing the original play style which exceeded all genres by mixing many elements such as Japanese music and folk music, also contemporary and classic freely.
He has been already going through various Units now, he interprets the play action as some necessary body performance, and he starts the project which has a theme to the search of the space production and the expression of the sound as an Asian. "TOHO-IBUN(東方異聞)" by the organization with the Japanese traditional instruments such as Satsuma biwa(a kind of lute), Japanese bamboo flute, and so on. The drum solo performance "SOLO-ist" which is the general space production that Masato's kinetic objects surrounded percussion instruments. He carries out original activities like these. He has two classes of drum school in Tokyo now.
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