Kako Takashi | tl

Kako, whose real name was Francisco Bastar, was born in Puerto Rico in 1936. He worked as a dancer on the island before Turning instead to the timbales and other percussive instruments. Kako was a versatile and respected percussionist who played and recorded with artists such as Tito Puente, Azuquita, Menique and Jerry Williams. He died in July 1994 whilst serving a sentence in a Texas prison. .

Aikakone (means time machine in Finnish) is a dance/pop project with 4 members : Sani, Vera, Alex and Maki. Sani (real name : Saija Aartela) , the main female vocalist, was born June 8th, 1971. She has brown hair and green eyes. Vera (background vocalist, lyrics writer), was born in October 1971. She attended the University of Jyväskylä. She is blonde-haired. Alex (musician, background vocalist, English lyrics writer). Alex is the male singer. His role as a singer diminished over time as he got more involved into the instrumental music aspect of the band. He was born in San Jose,...

Violinist Takako Nishizaki was the first student to complete the Suzuki Method course at age nine. Before she was ten, Takako Nishizaki had already played for artists like Isaac Stern and Georges Duhamel. When she was in the U.S. in 1962, Takako Nishizaki was awarded the Fritz Kreisler Scholarship. In 1969, she won first prize in Juilliard Concerto Competition while performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Nobuko Imai. Takako Nishizaki performed and recorded with pianists such as Andras Schiff, Jenö Jandó and Michael Ponti. She also performed in chamber music ensembles alongside Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zuckerman. She is married to...

Takashi started DJing as a student in Fukuoka (the home of Tonkotsu Ramen), and claimed his deejaying moniker (he DJ’s as DJ Warp) thanks to the Warp label t-shirt he was wearing the first time he spun records. In the intervening years he’s developed a taste for superb hard house and deep – minimalistic techno, and – after a stint in Okayama, where he ran small underground techno events “Pulse”, he moved back to Kyushu, where he now spins, makes music and runs Missile parties in Kagoshima. .

A collaboration between traditional Okinawan folk musician Takashi Hirayasu and Steel Guitar virtuoso Bob Brozman. .