Toshiaki Ishizuka
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Toshiaki 'Toshi' Ishizuka (Born February 2, 1950) is a Japan
ese drum
mer.
He played on Kazuki Tomokawa
's albums and is part of the band Vajra (with Kan Mikami
and Keiji Haino
).
His last album, released in 2006 on P.S.F. Records
, is entitled Drum Drama.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese drum
Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
mer.
He played on Kazuki Tomokawa
Kazuki Tomokawa
Tenji Nozoki , best known by the stage name Kazuki Tomokawa , is a prolific Japanese musician, active in the Japanese music scene since the early seventies. He is often described as a "screaming philosopher" due to his idiosyncratic singing style...
's albums and is part of the band Vajra (with Kan Mikami
Kan Mikami
is a Japanese folk singer-songwriter. His music, heavily influenced by American blues, was popular in Japan in the 1970s. He re-wrote the lyric of the song "Yume wa Yoru Hiraku" for his cover version in 1972...
and Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino born May 3, 1952 in Chiba, Japan, and currently residing in Tokyo, is a Japanese musician whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise, singer-songwriter, solo percussion, psychedelic, minimalism and drone styles...
).
His last album, released in 2006 on P.S.F. Records
P.S.F. Records
P.S.F. Records is a Japanese record label specialising in underground psychedelic and folk music, and free improvisation. P.S.F. are named after the 1985 High Rise record Psychedelic Speed Freaks and were established in Tokyo by Hideo Ikeezumi with the philosophy "I only release to what I like,...
, is entitled Drum Drama.