Shiko Ito (piano) + Takashi Seo (Double Bass)

A two-part live performance in which the musicians improvise to create a suite of music. The two have been performing together for more than 10 years.

The dialogue with Shiko in sound seems to be tested to the limit, and sometimes I suddenly go into a world I have never entered before. The beauty that cannot be expressed in words. It is frightening to even play a single note, but as I groping and weaving my way through the sounds, I will make great discoveries. I want to create a tingling, current sound. Please come and join us.

(Takashi Seo)

伊藤志宏 (piano) 瀬尾高志 (double bass)

Shihiro Ito (piano) Takashi Seo (double bass)

Itou Shikou

Born on August 28, 1977
Born in Tokyo, Virgo, type A, by the way.

Studied classical piano under his grandfather Motohiko Kishikawa from the age of five.
Performed Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra at the age of 14
Received favorable reviews

After entering the Faculty of Economics at Keio University, heard Thelonious Monk's solo piano CD
He began to study music theory by himself at the same time.
At the age of 23, he began performing live and started his professional career.

He is especially well known for his performances without drums or bass guitar.
Currently, he is seeking his own activities in a variety of compositions such as solo piano, trio syncretia, 3 cello variation, audace, and so on.
He is currently exploring his own activities in various formations.

He is also trusted by many singers as an accompanist and arranger.

伊藤志宏
１９７７年８月２８日生まれ
東京出身 ちなみに乙女座A型

五歳の頃より祖父の岸川基彦にクラッシックピアノを師事する
１４歳のとき東京交響楽団とベートーベンピアノコンチェルト三番を共演
好評を博す

慶応義塾経済学部入学後セロニアスモンクのソロピアノのCDを聞いて
「ジャズもいいかも」 と思い独学で始め音楽理論も同時に一人で学ぶ
２３歳くらいからいつの間にかライブを始めるようになりプロ活動を開始

特にドラム、ベースのいない変則形態における演奏には定評がある
今現在、ソロピアノ、トリオシンクレティア、3 cello variation、audace、など
多様な編成での独自の活動を模索中

また沢山の歌手から伴奏者、アレンジャーとして信頼を寄せられ演奏以外に映画音楽の作曲なども手がけている

Takashi Seo (Double Bass Player, Composer)

Born in Sapporo in 1979. He started playing double bass in his junior high school brass band. Studied contrabass under Mitsuo Fujisawa. Belongs to Hokkaido University's Jazz Lab. Started performing live on the streets of Susukino and at live houses in Hokkaido.

In 2001, he traveled throughout Cuba and the U.S., giving a series of session gigs. 2006, he performed in the Yokohama Jazz Promenade Competition with “Mikio Ishida Trio” and won the Grand Prix and the Yokohama Citizen's Prize.

Using gut strings made from sheep and cow intestines, which have been used for centuries, his bass playing is thick and rich in nuance, and his arco technique, which makes full use of harmonics (overtones), has established a world of its own.

He has played with the trio 『FIT!』with Fumio Itabashi (pf) and Ittetsu Takemura (ds), the Fumio Itabashi Orchestra, the DUO with Berlin pianist Achim Kaufmann, the quartet with Cologne pianist Simon Nabatov (Akira Sakata/as, Darren Moore/ds), and the group “House of Wasps” with Tristan Honzinger (cello), and 『BIG FOOT』 (Akira Sakata/as, Yong Yandsen/ts, Darren Moore/ds). He has also participated in numerous groups including Tokutaro Hosoi's [ 『Octopus Foot Earphones』, 『Gold in Muddy Sand』 (Tokutaro Hosoi/ vo,g,Osora Kimishima/vo,g), Naoshi Kondo/Bs, Daisuke Takaoka/tuba, Shiko Ito/pf, Takao Watanabe/tp, Akira Ishii/pf, Mikio Ishida/pf,Yasuhiro Yoshigaki/ds... etc. He has performed with singers such as Shun Sakai, Carmen Maki, Taku“Shoomy” Akemi, Teradamachi, Nanao Tabito, and Demon Kogure, as well as in Noh and Japanese music projects with Yukihiro Isso, a Noh flute player, and with contrabass soloists and dancers such as Taketeru Kudo, Jean Laurent Sasportes, and Reona(Tap Dance). He also leads the contrabass group “Otokotachi no Teigen”. He formed “The Bass Collective” with Masao Tajima and Kazuhiro Tanabe (released their first album “Twinkling Forest” in 2024).

His unique sensibility and inquisitiveness have led him to work all over the world without genre boundaries.