(photo by Andy Newcombe)

Taku Sugimoto is a Japanese guitarist. The are the dominant Ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent of these approximately 127 million are residents of Japan The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles

He initially gained attention in the late 1990s for his restrained, melodic playing, unusual in the world of free improvisation. Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician(s involved in many cases the musicians make Critic Bruce Russell describes this era of Sugimoto's music by writing: "Sugimoto is perhaps the pre-eminent stylist on the guitar . . . He brings a golden glow to every session he partakes in, having abandoned amped up noise in favour of a much more introspective and calligraphic style of play. "[1]

Around 2002 his music became increasingly abstract, all but eliminating melody and featuring extended periods of silence.

He has collaborated with other Japanese musicians involved in the Onkyo movement, such as Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura and Otomo Yoshihide. A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a Onkyo or is a form of Free improvisation, emerging from Japan in the late 1990s Sachiko Matsubara, who usually records as Sachiko M, is a Japanese Musician, but she considers herself to be a "non-musician" Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician active in Free improvisation and Japanese onkyo. is a Japanese Composer and Multi-instrumentalist. He first came to international prominence in the 1980s as the leader of the Noise rock group He has also collaborated with musicians from European free improvisation scenes, notably trombonist Radu Malfatti and guitarist Keith Rowe. Keith Rowe (born March 16, 1940 in Plymouth, England) is an English Free improvisation Guitarist and painter.

External links

• Taku Sugimoto's Home Page