Chie Mukai
Born February 17, 1953 is a female Japanese composer and musician, best known for her underground improv-folk group Ché-SHIZU. She has been involved in improvised performance since 1975, when she participated in the East Bionic Symphonia group, a graduation project for students of Takehisa Kosugi at the Bigakko art school in Tokyo. Her primary instrument is the bowed Chinese er-hu, although she is also a vocalist, and plays piano and percussion. Every year she organizes the Perspective Emotion mixed media arts festival in Tokyo.
Chie Mukai
- Born
- 1953 · Shinbashi.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Solo
She has been frequently collaborating with Kenya Kawaguchi, Masayoshi Urabe, Seiichi Yamamoto since 2010.
• Kokyu Improvisation (胡弓インプロヴィゼイション) CD (PSF, 1990) CD • Three pieces, solo improvisations LP (Siwa, 2000; CD, 2007) • Crossing CDR (there, 2004) • V.A., Somethings #1 CD (Last Visible Dog, 2007)
Ché-SHIZU
• Yakusoku wa dekinai (約束はできない) LP (zero records, 1984; CD reissue on Alchemy Records, 2001) • V.A., Aura Music LP (zero records, 1984) • V.A., Welcome to Dreamland LP/CD (celluloid, 1985) • Nazareth (ナザレ) CD (PSF, 1993) • A Journey CD (PSF, 1994) • Live 1996 Suisho CD (PSF, 1997) • Glimmering Star (瞬きの星) LP (Aleutian Retto, 1999; CD reissue on Alchemy Records, 2001)
Collaborations
• East Bionic Symphonia, s/t LP/cassette (Kojima, 1976) • Takashi Kazamaki & Chie Mukai, Kaze o aruku LP (Fukyosha, 1983) • Marginal Consort, Collective Improvisation CD (PSF, 1998) • Chie Mukai, Jutok Kaneko, Christophe Charles, Ikuro Takahashi, Yoko Muronoi, The Planet I video/DVD (there, 2000) • Chie Mukai & Masayoshi Urabe, Dual Anarchism LP/video (Siwa, 2002) • Chie Mukai & Seiichi Yamamoto & Lamones Young, s/t CD (Last Visible Dog / Hospital Productions, 2003) • Chie Mukai & Rinji Fukuoka, L'energie d'existence CD (Turtle's Dream, 2003) • Enkidu, Hasselt CD (Turtle's Dream, 2004) • Chie Mukai & Gary Smith, Eight+ CD (Paratactile, 2004)
Guest appearances
• Morio Agata (あがた森魚), Norimono zukan (乗物図鑑) LP (Vanity, 1981; CD reissue, Bridge, 2007) • Hallelujahs, Niku o kuraite chikai o tateyo (肉を喰らひて誓ひをたてよ) LP (Org Records, 1986; CD reissue, PSF) • Christoph Gallio, Cars & Variations / High Desert Songs CD (Percaso, 1994) • Kengo Iuchi (井内賢吾), Inugami to kachiku (犬神と家畜) LP (Kubitsuri, 1995) • Kengo Iuchi, Hanagurui no yoru cassette (Shikoku Manto, 1995) • Kengo Iuchi, Kuon no kane no ne cassette (Vanilla, 1995) • Nagisa ni te, On the love beach LP/CD (Org Records, 1995) • V.A., Los Angeles Free Music Society 1973-1995：The lowest form of music CD boxset (Cortical Foundation/RRRecords, 1996) • Kengo Iuchi/MSBR, Icht CD (alien8, 1998) • Maher Shalal Hash Baz, From a Summer to Another Summer (An Egypt to Another Egypt) CD (Geographic)
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