Kato Hideki
Excavation
*In process of stocking. Limited edition of 300 copies.* This release from Astral Editions, the rock offshoot of Astral Spirits, promises a lot of gems and this collaboration from Chris Cochrane (No Safety, Weird Little Boy) and John Thayer (Drunken Sufis, YAI) sits high atop the pile. Cochrane’s guitars crumple and crush, they squelch against Thayer’s rhythms with a gleeful sickness. “Zinc” chews through layers of tin and turbulence until Stan Zenkov’s sax enters the scene, throwing notes like …
Green zone
Green zone: Kato Hideki: bass, violin (on track 11). Otomo Yoshihide: electric guitar. Uemura Masahiro: drums. Recorded live by James Fei at Shinjuku Pit Inn. Tokyo, on september 30, 2004. All compositions and arrangements by Kato Hideki.