Künstler Informationen: Tipographica

In 1986 Tsuneo Imahori, guitarist and leader of the band, and Naruyoshi Kikuchi, the saxophonist,met at a music school and formed TIPOGRAPHICA with Akira Minakami. These three members still remain in the band, and at that time they played together with other members, a drummer and a bassist. Originally, the band interpreted the musicality of Fred Frith's MASSACRE and GOLDEN PALOMINOS as the antithesis of free jazz at that time, defining as their key theme "collapse," which emphasizes the prosess of degradation. [mehr anzeigen...]