Shin Terai

Shin Terai is a Japanese musician and producer associated with Bill Laswell . On his albums he combines ambient and electronic music with dub and avant-garde jazz .

Career

The actual percussionist and keyboardist first became famous in 1994 as the singer of the Chaos Face project initiated by Bill Laswell and Robert Musso . Another singer on the only album Doom Ride was Mick Harris , formerly the drummer for Napalm Death . Shin Terai only presented an album of his own called Unison in 1999. In addition to Laswell on bass, keyboardist Bernie Worrell and guitarists Nicky Skopelitis and Buckethead were also involved . In 2004 Bill Laswell created the remix album Heaven & Hell from the material from the recording sessions . In the meantime, Shin Terai was the producer of Soup , a trio from Laswell, guitarist Otomo Yoshihide and drummer and trumpeter Yasuhiro Yoshigaki .

On the 2007 published Lightyears Laswell, Worrell and Buckethead were represented again. Other guest contributions came from Nils Petter Molvær (trumpet), Lili Hayden (violin), Karl Berger (arrangements of the string instruments), DXT (turntables) and Laswell's wife Gigi . You can also hear the babbling of little Aman Laswell (son of Gigi and Bill), to whom the album is also dedicated.

Discography (selection)

1994: Chaos Face - Doom Ride (as singer)
1999: Shin Terai - Unison
2003: Soup - Soup (as producer)
2004: Soup - Soup Live (as producer)
2004: Shine - Heaven & Hell
2007: Shin.e - Lightyears

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personal data
SURNAME	Shin Terai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese musician
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century