Kenji Ikegami started playing shakuhachi since 2004, with playing Komujakuhachi(Honkyoku), as his lifework. While he focuses on the komujakuhachi, his music performance incorporating primitive music techniques,improvisation, and drone music. He also provides these sound sources to track makers.
For seeking more original sounds, he started making shakuhachi.After eight years of craftsmanship training, he started his original shakuhachi brand “Ikegami Meiji Jinashi'' in 2018.Each Ikegami Jinashi is handcrafted, focusing on producing the bamboo's natural sounds. Ikegami Jinashi creates an organic sound full of brilliant richness and depth when you play the instrument and has gained recognition by Shakuhachi Honkyoku players. Currently, he has started a project to make bamboo forest from scratch and expanding the possibility of creating sounds from nature.
ZEN RYDAZ :
NITRO MICROPHONE UNDERGROUNDのMACKA-CHIN、
PART2STYLEのMaL、JUZU a.k.a. MOOCHY ことJ.A.K.A.M.
2019年 それぞれのフィールドで20年以上活動してきた同年代の個性派3人が、
満を持してジャンルを越え”ZEN RYDAZ”として2019年遂に動き出す。
WORLD MUSICをテーマに、メンバーが旅して得た世界観、
常にアップデートされていく其々の感性、追及から生まれるスキルを結集し、
21世紀的ハイブリッドサウンドver3.0としてここTOKYOでクラクションを響き渡らす。
MADE IN JAPANの島リズムが生み出すZEN SOUNDは
バウンシーでドープそして自由な発想と飽くなき音楽魂を
”禅FLAVA” に乗せ、大空高くASIA発のニューライダーズサウンドとして
言葉を越え世界にアップデートされたWORLD MUSIC を送信中。
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