Akemi ”Shoomy” Taku (vo), Keisuke Ota (violin), Takashi Seo (Double Bass)

Taku "Shoomy” Akami (piano.vocal)

She was born in Tokyo, Japan. As a child, she was raised by her grandmother, a Noh master of the Kanze school in Fukuoka.
When she was in junior high school, she started playing the piano and organ under the musical laissez-faire of her mother, a poet and jazz pianist, and her foster father, a composer, pianist, and former piano and solfège professor at the National University of Fine Arts and Music.
As a high school student, he began performing professionally at hotel restaurants, playing the electone and piano.
Later, he started playing piano for background music at hotel bars, jazz bars, jazz clubs, piano lounges, etc.
In 1987, he stayed musically in New York for 6 months and started LIVE activities after returning to Japan.

Although his life's work has been avant-garde and free, he also performs improvisation, originals, jazz originals, standards, Brazilian music, soul, rock, and any other non-genre music he likes, in a free style. He pursues space, resonance, and a natural sense of rhythm.

Keisuke Ota (violin)

Started playing violin at the age of 5. Majored in chemistry at Kagoshima University.
In 1983, he moved to Tokyo and started his career as a composer and arranger. He has composed music for commercials, movies, plays, fashion shows, planetariums, and more.
As a violinist, he specializes in folk music (Turkish, Arabic, Indian, Eastern European, and Irish), jazz, and improvisation. Of course, he is a valuable presence in the studio and live performances, performing all genres of music, and has participated in the works of various artists and talents.

He is also well known for his uniquely Japanese voice, which has been used in TV, movies, video games, and commercials.
His unique appearance has also led him to appear on stage as a performance artist, and he has performed overseas many times.

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.