Ryusei Hattori

Ryusei Hattori

Ryusei Hattori plays the 6 string bass as if it is a classical guitar. He writes all of his own music, crossing many genres to create his unique New World style. His music transcends age, nationality, gender, and tastes. He is known for his beautiful melodies and his music transports the audience around the world. Ryusei Hattori has performed for almost 20 years as a solo 6 string bass player and has had concerts at many places including Chion-in and Honen-in, at very old and historical temples in Kyoto. He also played in Boston, USA in 2004, and was invited to The International Live Looping Festival in Santa Cruz, California as a headliner in 2005, and as a special guest in 2006/2008/2010 and toured California. In 2011, he started to play with cajon support players to produce his leader CD albums. He visited France, England, Spain with a cajon player to have CD release concerts in 2013. Since 2015 he started to play with a super percussionist, Ayuko Ikeda as a unit "Arstilé" and they performed about 30 concerts. In 2016, after a world famous drummer, Shuichi "PONTA" Murakami joined them and they played Trio as Arstilé meets PONTA. After that, Ryusei and PONTA started to play as a duo unit (named Duo Bleu) on July in 2016. Duo Bleu went around Japan from Hokkaido to Kyushu, and held about 200 concerts. September in 2018, he held a commemorative concert of Duo Bleu in Koyasan, the sacred site in Japan, the center of Japanese Buddism Shinbone sect. April in 2019, he released his new solo CD[Ryusei Hattori]with Takashi Mori/drums and Masaru Koga from USA/soprano saxophone. Taking advantage of his past valuable experience, Ryusei Hattori has put effort into his solo activities and performances including his CD release concerts with Takashi Mori and Masaru Koga.