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Satoshi Takeishi (Laptop
audio processing & Percs)
Shoko Nagai (Piano, Toy piano & Concertina)
vSoon (Satoshi Takeishi & Shoko Nagai) explores the possibility of
sound sculpting through 20th century music, free improvisation and
real-time audio processing. By extracting, magnifying and
modifying
the past musical event, they make "passing of time" a visual
experience.
SATOSHI TAKEISHI
Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native
of
Mito Japan. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in
Boston,
Massachusetts. While at Berklee he developed an interest in the
music
of South America and went to live in Colombia following the
invitation
of a friend. He spent four years there and forged many musical and
personal relationships. One of the projects he worked on while in
Colombia was 'Macumbia' with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque
in which traditional, jazz and classical music were combined. With
this group he performed with the Bogota symphony orchestra to do a
series of concerts honoring the music of the most popular composer
in Colombia, Lucho Bermudes. In 1986 he returned to the U.S. in
Miami where he began work as an arranger. In 1987 he produced
'Morning Ride' for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on Polygram Records.
His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the middle
east where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud
master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991 he has
performed and recorded with many musicians such as Ray Barretto,
Carlos 'Patato' Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez,
Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Murphy,
HerbieMann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Toshiko
Akiyoshi Big Band and Pablo Ziegler to name a few. He continues to
explore multi-cultural,electronics and improvisational music with
local musicians and composers in New York.
SHOKO NAGAI
Born in Nagoya, Japan, composer and pianist Shoko Nagai has been
evolving as a professional musician for twelve years. After
graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1999 she moved to New
York City and quickly established herself in the downtown jazz
scene performing with such renowned artists as John Zorn, Rasheid
Ali, Butch Morris, Tom Rainy, Louie Beloginis, Ikue Mori, Satoshi
Takeishi, Cuog Vu, Roy Champbell, Sam Newsome, Greg Tardy, Lukas
Ligeti, Daniel Carter, Ohad Talmor to name a few. The Shoko Nagai
Quintet which features some of New York's best musicians has
performed extensively at the BlueNote, Knitting factory, Tonic,
Stone, Roulette as well as at other top New York clubs. Nagai
released her first CD "Two levels Crossing" in 2000, 2nd CD
"VORTEX" in 2002, 3rd. CD "Vsoon" in 2003 which sky productions
records. Nagai has performed in Norway (Natt Jazz Festival 1998),
Switzerland and Israel. Her most recent project is "Vortex" which
is a free improvisation duet with electronics. In 2005, she
received a grant from Philadelphia Music Project 2005 Grant for
JazzJaunts, a project in which seven jazz artists will compose and
premiere compositions that incorporate musical traditions from
their cultural roots, spanning South Africa, Cuba, Brazil, South
India, Iraq, Japan, and the Jewish Diaspora. Her most recent
project is "vSoon"
which is a free improvisation duo with electronics. |
