Taketeru Kudo (Butoh) Akaihirume (voice) Fumi Endo (piano) Takashi Seo (contrabass)

Memories of a tour of Hokkaido with Butoh dancer Taketeru Kudo. There was a couple who had been coming to listen to me since they were students. The wife had been ill for a long time and came to the concert despite her difficult condition. She watched as if she was dancing for her lives with Taketeru Kudo's dance. I remember that figure. The life-breathing dance of Taketeru Kudo may be what I need now.

When I performed with piano player Fumi Endo, I felt the power of a very strong will, the expansion of the music and the sparkle in her delicate expression.

Singer Akaihirume, whose performance at Tristan Honzinger's memorial concert in January was a revelation. Her wild spontaneity and sensitivity, her unbelievable vocal technique, her voice volume and range were all amazing.

Taketeru Kudo, Fumi Endo, Akaihirume and Takashi Seo. I don't know what's going to happen, but I'm very interested. Please come and witness it!

Takashi Seo

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Taketeru Kudo (Butoh)

He was born in Tokyo in 1967 . Graduated from Keio University with a degree in French literature.Studied theatre, dance and Japanese dance while still a student, but his encounter with butoh in 1989 determined his future career path. After performing in works by Tamano Koichi and Wakuri Yukio, she began her solo career in 1992, participated in Sankai Juku from 1995 to 1998, and in 1997 founded her own collective, Tokyo Gionkan. In 1997 she founded her own group, Tokyo Gionkan, which has been involved with artists and companies in various fields, and has performed solo and continuously in various parts of the world.

Akaihirume (voice)

Singer.In addition to performing her own compositions, she also improvises with various vocal expressions and uses her voice itself as a material for solo performances, and collaborates and performs with artists from a variety of fields.Collaboration with composer Carl Stone began in 2015 and has since accompanied him on tours in Asia and the USA; in 2019, he will release the eponymous title track “Himalaya” on his album; in 2023, he will participate in the world premiere of his multi-channel audio and video work “Re:gendo”; in 2023, he will perform the world premiere of “Himalaya” on the album of the same name.

Fumi Endo (piano)

born in February 1993. As of November 2024, her ongoing units include Kasokeki koku, Kagami no Koe, Uquwa, Thieves, Phipt, Okuenmiya, Tata, хадгалагдах, Akihiro Yoshimoto Quartet, clouds dog and others (limited to those with names and scheduled gigs in the near future). A sort of boundary between nature and property, and at the same time, what might indeed be there.In February 2023, she released a solo CD, “In the cold light, warm blue”, on the Futtari label Hitorri. Most recently, ‘Kasokeki koku’ released in October 2024.

Takashi Seo (double bass)

Double bass player. His thick, nuanced bass playing using gut strings made from sheep and cow intestines, which have been used for centuries, and his arco technique, which makes full use of harmonics (overtones), have established a unique world of their own.
He has performed with many jazz and improvisation musicians, including Fumio Itabashi, Achim Kaufmann, Akira Sakata and Akira Ishii. He has performed with many singers, Noh players and dancers, including Terada Machi, Nanao Tabito, Shun Sakai and Akemi Shoomy Taku. He presides over the contrabass group ‘Otokotachi no Teigen’, and also formed The Bass Collective with Masao Tajima and Kazuhiro Tanabe, releasing ‘Mabataku mori’ in 2024.