Taku Unami
Taku Unami is a Japanese improviser and composer, born in Tokyo in 1976. Unami is best known on laptop and guitar, also plays mandolin, contraguitar, piano and bass guitar, and performs with cardboard boxes and household appliances such as vacuum cleaners. He works as a producer and sound engineer, has written music for films and runs the label hibari music. Unami led the band HOSE and has played in Hiromichi Hosoma's Kaerumoku and the Kanji Nakao Trio. He also co-founded the black metal group Totas Causas de Malignitat.
Keith Rowe - Taku Unami
ErstLive 006 is from the duo of Keith Rowe and Taku Unami, and took place on the first night of the Amplify 2008: light festival in Tokyo in September 2008. This was the first set they'd ever played together. Keith Rowe: guitar, electronics. Taku Unami: computer with objects, contraguitar, mandolin.
Tengu et Kitsune
2006 release ** "Sparse mandolin music (very slow & deliberate plucking reminiscent of Derek Bailey), with a couple spurts of electronic noise throughout the duration."
