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Taku Sugimoto
Taku Sugimoto is credited on 41 releases across 15 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1986–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
41
Pressings credited
15
Albums
5
Decades active
3
In collections
Biography
Taku Sugimoto, born 20 December 1965, in Tokyo, is a Japanese guitarist. He initially gained attention in the late 1990s for his restrained, melodic playing, unusual in the world of free improvisation. Critic Bruce Russell describes this era of Sugimoto's music by writing: "Sugimoto is perhaps the pre-eminent stylist on the guitar ... He brings a golden glow to every session he partakes in, having abandoned amped up noise in favour of a much more introspective and calligraphic style of play." Around 2002 his music became increasingly abstract, all but eliminating melody and featuring extended periods of silence. He has collaborated with other Japanese musicians involved in the Onkyo movement, such as Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura and Otomo Yoshihide. He has also collaborated with musicians from European free improvisation scenes, notably trombonist Radu Malfatti and guitarist Keith Rowe.
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Credited work
41 releases · 15 albums · active 1986–2024
- Performance · 83
- Other credits · 9
- Engineering · 5
- Production · 3
- Mastering · 2
Studios: Seiryu Temple · Waseda Salvation Church · Kid Ailack Art Hall · Loop-Line
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Ghost (2)
- L (2)
- TV Pow
- Stefan Thut
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