Kato Hideki

Kato Hideki (Japanese加藤 英 树, Katō Hideki, born in 1962 in Nagoya, Japan), in net notation with Japanese naming order of family name first, is a Japanese musician (bass, Elektronics ) and composer. It has emerged in the experimental music between free jazz, noise, art rock and ambient.

Life and work

In the late 1980s he worked with Otomo Yoshihide, Tatsuya Yoshida, Koichi Makigami and Eye Yamatsuka and directed the bands player piano and bass Army. In 1990 he was involved in the founding of the Japanese avant-garde band Ground Zero with Otomo and Uemura Masahiro. In 1992 he moved to New York City. He worked with musicians such as John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Christian Marclay, James Pugliese, Gary Lucas and Anthony Coleman.

With Otomo and Tony Buck, he founded the band Perril, the advanced wrath music. With violinist Eyvind Kang and Calvin Weston, he played in a trio Dying Ground, took up the aesthetics of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. In 1995 he founded with Ikue Mori and Fred Frith, the trio Death Ambient, which released several albums on anger Tzadik label. On his first album under his own name Hope & Despair, he converted principles of Noh theater.

Next, he worked with Billy Martin socket, phase III, Italian DOC Remix and the Crescent Moon Trio. With James Fei he maintains an electronic duo. His Ground Zero Otomo Yoshihide colleagues and Uemura Masahiro he brought in his trio founded in 2004 Green Zone. He also plays in a quartet with Calvin Weston, Charles Burnham and Briggan Krauss.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Sieves ( Improvised Music from Japan, with James Fei, 1993)
  • Death Ambient ( Tzadik, Ikue Mori and Fred Frith with; 1995)
  • Hope & Despair (Extreme Records, with John Zorn, Zeena Parkins and Dougie Browne, 1996)
  • Turbulent Zone ( Music for Expanded Ears, solo, 1998)
  • Synaesthesia ( Tzadik, Ikue Mori and Fred Frith with; 1999)
  • Green Zone ( doubt music, 2005)
  • Drunken Forest ( Tzadik, Ikue Mori and Fred Frith with; 2007)

Lexigraphic entries

  • Wolf Kampmann: Reclam Jazz Encyclopedia. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5
Ambient music Ground Zero (Band) Tony Buck (musician) Tzadik Records Billy Martin (percussionist)
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