Tumo with Ami Yamazaki

Tumo (Yuma Takeshita + Yuji Ishihara)

Yuma Takeshita (selfmade electro-bass)

Yuji Ishihara (drums, percussion)

Tumo is an experimental music unit by Yuma Takeshita and Yuji Ishihara, based in Tokyo.
Electronic noise by the extremely modified electric bass guitar “electro-bass” and acoustic blow sounds from drums and percussion create a special ensemble.

Guest: Ami Yamazaki

Ami YAMASAKI is a vocalist and cross-media artist from Tokyo.
Yamasaki creates installations, performance pieces and directs films.
With primal vocals and movement, she explores the possibilities of a deeper
understanding towards the mechanism of the world.
In 2017 She is invited to New York by Asian Cultural Council as a grantee.
Her main solo show includes “Signs of voices” (2016, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto), and grope shows include “Tokyo Experimental Festival vol.09 ” (2014, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo) “Exchange-planting a seed” (2013, Aomori Contemporary Art center, Aomori) and “Sonic City 2013 Liquid Architecture” (2013, RMIT, Melbourne). Her work is diverse and prolific; ranging from the collaborations with Keiji Haino, Yasunori Ikunishi, Akira Sakata, and Dairo Suga, workshops at The National Museum of Art Osaka, Arts Maebashi, and Sapporo City Kojo elementary school, as well as television appearances as a narrator and vocalist for drama.