杉本拓

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杉本拓's albums, singles and EPs, and live albums discography with cataloged releases, editions, and credits

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Japanese guitarist, cellist and composer. Born in Tokyo on December 20, 1965. Taku Sugimoto started playing guitar when he was a high school student. At first he played rock and blues, and then he also became interested in free jazz, European free improvised music, and avant-garde classical music. In 1985, Sugimoto co-founded the improvisational psychedelic rock band Piero Manzoni, whose main influences were The Velvet Underground and MC5. The group, including Masaki Bato on bass and Sugimoto on guitar, disbanded in '88. For the next few years, Sugimoto was involved in solo performance and session work. It was during this period that he released his first solo LP, Mienai Tenshi ('88), which had a big, heavy sound. In '91, Sugimoto started playing cello, and for the next two years abandoned the guitar in order to focus completely on this instrument. He formed Henkyo Gakudan (which was active in '91-'92) with alto sax player Hiroshi Itsui and guitarist Michio Kurihara. The group's music sounded like somewhat high-volume improvised chamber music. Sugimoto was also briefly a member, in '93, of the psychedelic rock band Ghost, and in '94, of Tetuzi Akiyama's avant-garde classical music band Hikyo String Quintet. After releasing his cello solo CD Slub in '94, Sugimoto gave up the cello. Sugimoto and Tetuzi Akiyama launched their guitar duo Akiyama-Sugimoto in '94. Since that time, Sugimoto has gradually shifted from a loud, heavy sound to the extremely quiet sound, full of silences, which he has established through solo and other projects as his own unique style. He has played frequently with Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura (guitar, mixing board), Yuta Kawasaki (analog synthesizer), Otomo Yoshihide (turntables, guitar, electronics) and others. Since 1998, together with Akiyama and Nakamura, he has been organizing an inspiring monthly concert, The Improvisation Meeting at Bar Aoyama (renamed The Experimental Meeting at Bar Aoyama in '99, and Meeting at Off Site in 2000), which he continued to organize until his retirement from the series in February 2001. Currently Sugimoto's interest focuses on composition and its performance, rather than improvisation. With Taku Unami and Masahiko Okura, Sugimoto organizes the almost-monthly Chamber Music Concert at Loop-Line and the irregular Taku Sugimoto Composition Series at Kid Ailack Art Hall, both in Tokyo. He runs the label Slub Music, which in addition to Sugimoto's own recordings releases CDs by Taku Unami, Kazushige Kinoshita, Radu Malfatti, Antoine Beuger, and others

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Slub: Unaccompanied Violoncello Solo

1994

Studio Album

Alto

1995

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Myshkin Musicu (For Electric Guitar)

1996

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Flagments of Paradise

1997

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Duo

1998

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Opposite

1998

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Folie á deux

1998

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Metal Tastes Like Orange. Secret Recording 1

1999

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I Am Happy If You Are Happy

2000

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A Duo in Berlin

2000

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Les Hautes Solitudes: A Philippe Garrel Film

2002

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Eine Gitarre Ist Eine Gitarre Ist Keine Gitarre Ist Eine Gitarre...

2002

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An Old Fashioned Duet

2002

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Trio At Offsite

2002

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Ajar

2002

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Meeting at Off Site Vol. 2

2003

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Chamber Music

2003

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Quartet

2004

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Training Thoughts

2004

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Music for Cymbal

2005

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Principia Sugimatica

2005

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Tengu Et Kitsune

2006

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Doremilogy

2007

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Shiisanputou

2008

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Three Speakers

2008

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Santa

2008

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Tengu Et Kitsune II

2009

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26 (2009): Electronic Version

2009

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Musical Composition Series 1

2010

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Musical Composition Series 2

2010

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2 Seconds / B Minor / Wave

2010

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D Minor / B♭ Major

2012

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Quartet / Octet

2014

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Taku Sugimoto/Manfred Werder

2015

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Septet

2015

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Songs

2017

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Quintets: Berlin, San Diego

2017

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h

2018

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Sextet

2018

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Taku Sugimoto, Stefan Thut

2018

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Guitars

2019

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2 Clarinets + Guitar

2019

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Trio

2020

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Live At OTOOTO & Permian

2020

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Atama 頭

2020

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Octet

2021

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Snare Drum +

2021

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Ftarri 16 07 2023

2024

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