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HIKASHU [Avant-Prog]
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  Style    : RIO/Avant-Prog
  Format   : MP3 / flac
  Type     : TRACKS
  Bitrate  : 320 kbps / lossless
  Country  : japan
 
  

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     HIKASHU [Avant-Prog]
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A theatrical artist Koichi MAKIGAMI met Makoto INOUE in the art club of their junior high school in 1970 ... this could be the start of HIKASHU.

Koichi and Makoto joined a Japanese dramatic troupe Tokyo Kid Brothers and gave public performances in New York or London, but sadly broke up soon after the performance in London. 
Lumiere and Son, born as a London avantgarde theatrical company in those days and supported by Roger Waters or Henry Cow, appreciated their artistic talent and invited them as guests. 
Koichi and Makoto say they could get much impact in avantgarde stages of Lumiere and Son. In mid 1970s Koichi as a theatrical producer, and Makoto as a synthesizer musician, gained much 
experience ... especially upon a performance 'Collecting Net', on that stage Koichi, Makoto, and Yasushi YAMASH?TA appeared.

HIKASHU were formed by Makoto, Yasushi, and Tadahiro WAKABAYASHI - a sitarist and the owner of Raoya, a live house in Kichijoji (Tokyo) - in 1978, featuring tabla or sitar, much influenced 
by music of India. On the other hand, Koichi sessioned with Masamichi MITAMA and Satoshi TOBE and formed a three-piece unit RU-INCHI (even currently sometimes appeared on stage as Koichi's another 
project). These two outfits met upon a performance named 'Yochu No Kiki' produced by Koichi, and at this moment HIKASHU were formally reborn as a five-piece band - Koichi MAKIGAMI (voices, bass, 
cornet, theremin etc.), Masamichi MITAMA (now Freeman MITA; guitars, sitar), Makoto INOUE (synthesizer, mellotron, keyboards), Satoshi TOBE (saxophone, guitar), and Yasushi YAMASHITA (rhythmbox, 
synthesizer, timpani).

Albums
[1980.07 · EWS-81345] Natsu
[1984.10 · Boys-1] Watashi No Tanoshimi — VBR ~130
[1984.12 · AX-7416-E] Mizu Ni Nagashite
[1988.11 · RWP-6] Ningen No Kao
[1989.10 · CT25-5571] Hikashu + 2
[1989.10 · CT25-5572] Natsu + 2
[1989.11 · 32PD-001] Live — CBR 128
[1990.10 · VPCC-80429] Teicho Na Omotenashi
[1991.08 · VPCC-80430] Humming Soon — CBR 128
[1992.06 · TOCT-6601] Uwasa No Jinrui
[1993.10 · TKCA-70165] London Eye & Paris Eye
[2003.09 · TOCT-25174] Uwasa No Jinrui [Remaster] — VBR V0
[2006.10 · MKR-0002] Ten Ten
[2008.04 · MKR-0004] Ikiru Koto — VBR V2
[2009.12 · MKR-0006] Ten Ten Ten — VBR V2
[2012.04 · MKR-0008] Uragoe
[2012.12 · EGDS-61] London Eye & Paris Eye [Remastered]
[2013.12 · MKR-0009] Bankan

Miscellaneous
[1988.10 · 28CA-2728] Nihon No Egao
[1996.08 · TOCT-9558] Retroactive Remix
[1996.12 · TOCT-9775] Changing Like Myxomycetes — VBR V0
[1999.12 · ak002] 4 trck bootlg — CBR 160
[2001.10 · TZ 7235] Hikashu History
[2007.05 · MKR-0003] Nyunen [Maxi-single] — VBR V1
[2013.12 · EGDS-62] Chakra Biraki

flac

[1988.10 · 28CA-2728] Nihon No Egao [Reissue]
[1989.10 · CT25-5571] Hikashu + 2
[1989.10 · CT25-5572] Natsu + 2
[1990.10 · VPCC-80429] Teicho Na Omotenashi
[1992.06 · TOCT-6601] Uwasa No Jinrui
[1993.10 · TKCA-70165] London Eye & Paris Eye
[1996.08 · TOCT-9558] Retroactive Remix
[2001.10 · Tz 7235] Hikashu History
[2012.12 · EGDS-61] London Eye & Paris Eye [Remastered]
[2013.12 · EGDS-62] Chakra Biraki