Kato Hideki

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Kato Hideki ( Japanese 加藤 英 樹 , Katō Hideki ; * 1962 in Nagoya , Japan), in proper spelling with Japanese name order from family name first, is a Japanese musician (bass, electronics) and composer. He has emerged in experimental music between free jazz , noise , art rock and ambient .

Live and act

In the late 1980s he worked with Yoshihide Otomo , Tatsuya Yoshida, Koichi Makigami, and Eye Yamatsuka, and directed the bands Player Piano and Bass Army . In 1990 he helped found the Japanese avant-garde band Ground Zero with Otomo and Masahiro Uemura. In 1992 he moved to New York City . There he worked with musicians such as John Zorn , Marc Ribot , Christian Marclay , James Pugliese, Gary Lucas and Anthony Coleman .

With Otomo and Tony Buck he founded the band Perril , which further developed Zorn's music. With violinist Eyvind Kang and Calvin Weston he played in the trio Dying Ground , which took up the aesthetics of the Mahavishnu Orchestra . In 1995 he founded the trio Death Ambient with Ikue Mori and Fred Frith , which released several albums on Zorn's Tzadik label. On his first album under his own name Hope & Despair , he implemented the principles of Nō theater.

He also worked with Billy Martins Socket , Phase III, Italian DOC Remix and the Crescent Moon Trio . He maintains an electronic duo with James Fei . He brought his Ground Zero colleagues Otomo Yoshihide and Uemura Masahiro into his trio Green Zone , which he founded in 2004 . He also plays in a quartet with Calvin Weston, Charles Burnham and Briggan Krauss . With Doug Wieselman he belongs to the Karen Mantler trio .

Discographic notes

  • Sieves (Improvised Music from Japan, with James Fei; 1993)
  • Death Ambient ( Tzadik , with Ikue Mori and Fred Frith; 1995)
  • Hope & Despair (Extreme Records, with John Zorn, Zeena Parkins, and Dougie Browne; 1996)
  • Turbulent Zone (Music for Expanded Ears, solo; 1998)
  • Synaesthesia ( Tzadik , with Ikue Mori and Fred Frith; 1999)
  • Green Zone (doubtmusic, 2005)
  • Drunken Forest ( Tzadik , with Ikue Mori and Fred Frith; 2007)

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SURNAME Kato, Hideki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 加藤 英 樹 (Japanese); Kato, Hideki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagoya