Chie Mukai

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Chie Mukai (向井 千恵, Mukai Chie, 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 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 mixed media arts festival in Tokyo. She has been frequently collaborating with , Masayoshi Urabe, Seiichi Yamamoto since 2010.

Discography[]

Solo[]

  • 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)
  • & Chie Mukai, Kaze o aruku LP (Fukyosha, 1983)
  • Marginal Consort, Collective Improvisation CD (PSF, 1998)
  • Chie Mukai, Jutok Kaneko, Christophe Charles, Ikuro Takahashi, , 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 & , 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)
  • , Cars & Variations / High Desert Songs CD (Percaso, 1994)
  • (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 (/RRRecords, 1996)
  • Kengo Iuchi/, Icht CD (alien8, 1998)
  • Maher Shalal Hash Baz, From a Summer to Another Summer (An Egypt to Another Egypt)　CD (Geographic)

References[]

  • Interview with Chie Mukai. G-Modern, issue 14, Winter 96-97. pp. 11–23 (Japanese)
  • Stofer, F. (2000). Japanese Independent Music, France: Sonore. ISBN 2-9515644-0-6

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