Tetuzi Akiyama
Tetuzi Akiyama (born 1964) is a Japanese guitarist, violinist and instrument maker from Tokyo who works in free improvisation, noise and related experimental music. In 1998 he began organising a monthly improvisation concert series with Taku Sugimoto and Toshimaru Nakamura, first known as The Improvisation Meeting. Akiyama formed the improvising group Madhar in 1987 and the Hikyo String Quintet in 1994, with Sugimoto on cello. He also played in a guitar duo with Sugimoto that performed in New York, Chicago and Detroit. Later groups include the duo Sutekina Tea Time with Takashi Matsuoka and the trio Mongoose with Sugimoto and Utah Kawasaki. His solo records include The Ancient Balance to Control Death (Western Vinyl, 2008). He has recorded with Jozef van Wissem, Günter Müller, Oren Ambarchi and Hervé Boghossian, and he played guitar on David Sylvian's Manafon (2009).
Tetuzi Akiyama (born 1964) is a Japanese guitarist, violinist and instrument maker from Tokyo who works in free improvisation, noise and related experimental music. In 1998 he began organising a monthly improvisation concert series with Taku Sugimoto and Toshimaru Nakamura, first known as The Improvisation Meeting. Akiyama formed the improvising group Madhar in 1987 and the Hikyo String Quintet in 1994, with Sugimoto on cello. He also played in a guitar duo with Sugimoto that performed in New York, Chicago and Detroit. Later groups include the duo Sutekina Tea Time with Takashi Matsuoka and the trio Mongoose with Sugimoto and Utah Kawasaki. His solo records include The Ancient Balance to Control Death (Western Vinyl, 2008). He has recorded with Jozef van Wissem, Günter Müller, Oren Ambarchi and Hervé Boghossian, and he played guitar on David Sylvian's Manafon (2009).
