Toshihiro Makihara LIVE!牧原利弘 LIVE!

Toshihiro Makihara ( percussion ) , Kelly Churko ( guitar ), Takaoka ( tuba ) , Keiichi Matsumoto ( sax)

Last date of Makihara Toshihiro's Japan Tour!

Toshi Makihara is one of the major voices in Philadelphia's New Music and Experimental Free Improvisation scene today. He studied percussion with Sabu Toyozumi, a prominent percussionist and improviser in Tokyo, and has worked with various new music ensembles as well as with numerous dance and theater companies in the United States, Japan and Europe including Arden Theater Company, Diversions Dance Company (Wales), Pennsylvania Ballet, ZeroMoving Dance Company and Leah Stein Dance Company. In the realm of experimental free improvised music, he has worked with musicians including Steve Beresford, Peter Brotzmann, John Butcher, Nels Cline, Eugene Chadbourne, Tom Cora, Amy Denio, Thurston Moore, William Parker, Jon Rose, Wally Shoup, LaDonna Smith, Andrew Voigt, Davey Williams and John Zorn. He has also collaborated with poets, visual artists, filmmakers and performance artists widely.

Makihara's original improvisational style combines his masterful percussion technique with vaudeville humor, and a zen-influenced use of silence as well as gesture. He has also used a dazzling range of discovered sound media ranging from bicycle wheels to coiled slinkies in unexpectedly unique ways. Since the fall of 2000, Makihara has been using a very small percussion set consisting of just one drum and one small cymbal as his regular performance kit. This minimum setting allows him to capture the essence of free improvisation more clearly and dynamically.

Makihara's recordings include Grammy nominated "Another Shining Path" (1998 Drimala Records) in trio with Gary Hassay (alto saxophone) and William Parker (bass), and "Hurricane Floyd" (Spring 2000, Sublingual Records) in trio with Thurston Moore (guitar) and Wally Shoup (alto sax).
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