Toshiaki 'Toshi' Ishzuka is a Japanese drummer. He played on Kazuki Tomokawa's albums and is part of the band Vajra (with Kan Mikami and Keiji Haino). His last album, released in 2006 on P.S.F. Records, is entitled Drum Drama.
New solo work from the Japanese underground’s drummer of choice. Six years on from 1999`s masterful Red Night (PSFD-107), Toshiaki “Toshi” Ishizuka is back with a new set of deep, shimmering nightscapes for percussion. Toshi has been a pivotal figure in the Japanese underground since the late sixties, when he founded Japan’s first radical, politically-engaged punk group Zuno Keisatsu. Since then he has been the sticksman of choice for howling folk-poets Kazuki Tomokawa, Yasuki Fukushima and Kan …