Artist Profile
Akinori YamasakiAkinori is guitarist and composer based in Tango Peninsula, Kyoto Prefecture. He has worked with Akio Suzuki as assistant from 2001 to 2003. In 2005, he released his first album "RED FIELD" with support from British music magazine Wire, which received good reviews including the one from David Toop, critic and musician representing experimental music scene in UK. Akinori plays his music in solo lives and Karasuma Stroke Rock, a theatrical company in Kyoto, for music composition and playing. Besides, he joins other collaboration projects with contemporary dance, actively challenging in different art fields. In 2014, Akinori released his second album "Etude of Sea" after 8 years of absence since the last one.