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Musician of Electronic and Jazz
A.k.a. 杉本拓
Guitar and cello player Born in Tokyo, December 20, 1965. Taku Sugimoto started playing guitar when he was a high school student. At first he played rock and blues, and then he also became interested in free jazz, European free improvised music, and avant-garde classical music. In 1985, Sugimoto co-founded the improvisational psychedelic rock band Piero Manzoni, whose main influences were The Velvet Underground and MC5. The group, including Masaki Bato on bass and Sugimoto on guitar, disbanded in '88. For the next few years, Sugimoto was involved in solo performance and session work. It was during this period that he released his first solo LP, Mienai Tenshi ('88), which had a big, heavy sound. In '91, Sugimoto started playing cello, and for the next two years abandoned the guitar in order to focus completely on this instrument. He formed Henkyo Gakudan (which was active in '91-'92) with alto sax player Hiroshi Itsui and guitarist Michio Kurihara. The group's music sounded like somewhat high-volume improvised chamber music. Sugimoto was also briefly a member, in '93, of the psychedelic rock band Ghost, and in '94, of Tetuzi Akiyama's avant-garde classical music band Hikyo String Quintet. After releasing his cello solo CD Slub in '94, Sugimoto gave up the cello. Sugimoto and Tetuzi Akiyama launched their guitar duo Akiyama-Sugimoto in '94. Since that time, Sugimoto has gradually shifted from a loud, heavy sound to the extremely quiet sound, full of silences, which he has established through solo and other projects as his own unique style. He has played frequently with Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura (guitar, mixing board), Yuta Kawasaki (analog synthesizer), Otomo Yoshihide (turntables, guitar, electronics) and others. Since 1998, together with Akiyama and Nakamura, he has been organizing an inspiring monthly concert, The Improvisation Meeting at Bar Aoyama (renamed The Experimental Meeting at Bar Aoyama in '99, and Meeting at Off Site in 2000), which he continued to organize until his retirement from the series in February 2001. Currently Sugimoto's interest focuses on composition and its performance, rather than improvisation. With Taku Unami and Masahiko Okura, Sugimoto organizes the almost-monthly Chamber Music Concert at Loop-Line and the irregular Taku Sugimoto Composition Series at Kid Ailack Art Hall, both in Tokyo. He runs the label Slub Music, which in addition to Sugimoto's own recordings releases CDs by Taku Unami, Kazushige Kinoshita, Radu Malfatti, Antoine Beuger, and others
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Chamber And Field Works (2015-2017) | Bruno Duplant - Taku Sugimoto / Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble | 2018 | Album |
Taku Sugimoto / Stefan Thut | Taku Sugimoto, Stefan Thut | 2018 | Album |
H | Cristián Alvear Montecino & Taku Sugimoto | 2018 | Album |
Songs | Taku Sugimoto & Minami Saeki | 2018 | Album |
Sextet | Minami Saeki, Wakana Ikeda, Yoko Ikeda, Taku Sugimoto, Stefan Thut, Manfred Werder | 2018 | Album |
Quintets: Berlin, San Diego | Taku Sugimoto | 2017 | Album |
Songs | Taku Sugimoto - Minami Saeki | 2017 | Album |
Offing | Angharad Davies & Taku Sugimoto | 2016 | Single |
Arst (La Passe à Quatre, Live In Nantes, 1999) | Noël Akchoté, Keith Rowe, Taku Sugimoto, Anthony Taillard | 2016 | Album |
Mada | Taku Sugimoto - Ryoko Akama, Cristián Alvear Montecino, Cyril Bondi, D'incise | 2016 | Album |
Septet | Taku Sugimoto | 2015 | Album |
Taku Sugimoto/Manfred Werder | Taku Sugimoto, Manfred Werder | 2015 | Album |
Quartet / Octet | Taku Sugimoto | 2014 | Album |
Live In Saritote | Taku Sugimoto, Moe Kamura | 2013 | Album |
D Minor / Bb Major | Michael Pisaro / Taku Sugimoto | 2012 | Album |
Untitled 1-4 | Otomo Yoshihide & Taku Sugimoto | 2011 | Album |
Musical Composition Series 1 | Taku Sugimoto | 2010 | Album |
10, 11, 12 | Taku Sugimoto | 2010 | Album |
2 Seconds / B Minor / Wave | Michael Pisaro / Taku Sugimoto | 2010 | Album |
さりとて2 (Saritote II) | Taku Sugimoto And Moe Kamura | 2010 | Album |
Musical Composition Series 2 | Taku Sugimoto | 2010 | Album |
Wedding Ceremony | Lucio Capece, Julia Eckhardt, Christian Kesten, Radu Malfatti, Toshimaru Nakamura, Taku Sugimoto | 2009 | Album |
Tengu Et Kitsune II | Taku Sugimoto / Taku Unami | 2009 | Album |
26 (2009): Electronic Version | Taku Sugimoto | 2009 | Album |
13 & 14 For Guitars | Taku Sugimoto | 2009 | Album |
Chamber Music Concerts Vol. 1 | Masahiko Okura / Taku Sugimoto / Taku Unami | 2008 | Album |
Santa | Mitsuhiro Yoshimura / Taku Sugimoto / Toshiya Tsunoda | 2008 | Album |
Shiisanputou | Taku Sugimoto | 2008 | Album |
Three Speakers | Taku Sugimoto | 2008 | Album |
さりとて [Saritote] | Taku Sugimoto & Moe Kamura | 2007 | Album |
Doremilogy | Taku Sugimoto | 2007 | Album |
Not BGM And So On | Mitsuhiro Yoshimura / Taku Sugimoto | 2007 | Album |
Live In Kansai | Taku Sugimoto | 2006 | Album |
Tengu Et Kitsune | Taku Sugimoto / Taku Unami | 2006 | Album |
Live In Australia | Taku Sugimoto | 2005 | Album |
Music For Cymbal | Taku Sugimoto | 2005 | Album |
Principia Sugimatica | Taku Sugimoto | 2005 | Album |
Quartet | Nikos Veliotis, Taku Sugimoto, Kazushige Kinoshita, Taku Unami | 2004 | Album |
Training Thoughts | Taku Sugimoto / Yasuo Totsuka / Mattin | 2004 | Album |
Compositions For Guitars | Brett Larner / Taku Sugimoto / Burkhard Stangl | 2003 | Album |
Chamber Music | Taku Sugimoto | 2003 | Album |
Ajar | Otomo Yoshihide • Keith Rowe • Taku Sugimoto | 2002 | Album |
Trio At Offsite | Taku Sugimoto, Masafumi Ezaki, Taku Unami | 2002 | Album |
Les Hautes Solitudes--A Philippe Garrel Film: Imaginary Soundtrack | Otomo Yoshihide / Taku Sugimoto / Sachiko M | 2002 | Album |
In Tokyo (First Concert - Second Take) | Taku Sugimoto / Burkhard Stangl / Christof Kurzmann | 2002 | Album |
An Old Fashioned Duet | Burkhard Stangl and Taku Sugimoto | 2002 | Album |
Deluxe Nakamura | Brett Larner, Taku Sugimoto | 2002 | Album |
Eine Gitarre Ist Eine Gitarre Ist Keine Gitarre Ist Eine Gitarre... | Taku Sugimoto & Annette Krebs | 2002 | Album |
Tori | Taku Sugimoto | 2001 | Album |
Periodic Drift | Tetuzi Akiyama / Taku Sugimoto / Bo Wiget | 2001 | Album |
Italia | Taku Sugimoto | 2001 | Album |
Den | Taku Sugimoto - Kevin Drumm | 2000 | Album |
I Am Happy If You Are Happy | Günter Müller, Taku Sugimoto | 2000 | Album |
The World Turned Upside Down | Keith Rowe / Günter Müller / Taku Sugimoto | 2000 | Album |
A Duo In Berlin | Annette Krebs / Taku Sugimoto | 2000 | Album |
Metal Tastes Like Orange. Secret Recording 1 | Masahiko Okura - Günter Müller - Taku Sugimoto - Otomo Yoshihide | 1999 | Album |
Opposite | Taku Sugimoto | 1998 | Album |
Folie Á Deux | Kevin Drumm • Taku Sugimoto | 1998 | Album |
Duo | Kevin Drumm & Taku Sugimoto | 1998 | Album |
Fragments Of Paradise | Taku Sugimoto | 1997 | Album |
Myshkin Musicu (For Electric Guitar) | Taku Sugimoto | 1996 | Album |
Alto | Taku Sugimoto | 1995 | Album |
Slub: Unaccompanied Violoncello Solo | Taku Sugimoto | 1994 | Album |
Taku Sugimoto Guitar Quartet JP Electronic |