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 East Bionic Symphonia were a group of improvisers and artists who studied together under Takehisa Kosugi at the Bigakko artschool in Tokyo in the mid-1970s. As a graduation project they recorded an album of free improvisation that was edited by K ...

group, a graduation project for students of Takehisa Kosugi at the Bigakko art school in Tokyo. Her primary instrument is the bowed Chinese

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, although she is also a vocalist, and plays piano and percussion. Every year she organizes the Perspective Emotion mixed media arts festival in Tokyo. She has been frequently collaborating with Kenya Kawaguchi,

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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

, s/t LP/cassette (Kojima, 1976) * Takashi Kazamaki & Chie Mukai, ''Kaze o aruku'' LP (Fukyosha, 1983) *

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, ''Collective Improvisation'' CD (PSF, 1998) *Chie Mukai,

Jutok Kaneko Jutok Kaneko (金子寿徳) (1958 – 24 January 2007) was a Japanese guitarist and vocalist, and is best known for his work with Tokyo underground psychedelic rock group Kousokuya (光束夜), who specialised in rock-based soundscapes characteris ...

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, Ikuro Takahashi, Yoko Muronoi, ''The Planet I'' video/DVD (there, 2000) *Chie Mukai &

, ''Dual Anarchism'' LP/video (Siwa, 2002) *Chie Mukai & Seiichi Yamamoto & Lamones Young, s/t CD (Last Visible Dog / Hospital Productions, 2003) *Chie Mukai & Rinji Fukuoka, ''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 Agata Morio ( ja, あがた森魚, born 12 September 1948) is a Japanese folk rock singer-songwriter and actor. He also directed three films. Biography Agata was born in Rumoi, Hokkaido. His 1972 debut single ''Sekishoku Erejī'' (literary tra ...

(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) * Christoph Gallio, ''Cars & Variations / High Desert Songs'' CD (Percaso, 1994) * Kengo Iuchi (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) *

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, ''On the love beach'' LP/CD (Org Records, 1995) *V.A., ''

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1973-1995：The lowest form of music'' CD boxset ( Cortical Foundation/

RRRecords RRRecords is a record label and used and new record shop based in Lowell, Massachusetts. RRRecords was the first American record label to publish underground "noise music" in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Maso ...

, 1996) *Kengo Iuchi/ MSBR, ''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.

External links

Chie Mukai website
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