Kaoru Inoue
Latest Release
Artist Profile
Kaoru InoueKaoru Inoue is a DJ and a music producer who runs a label called [Seeds And Ground]. Since high school to early 20s, throughout the experience of being a guitarist in punk rock bands, in 1989 he first came across with acid jazz and that led him to dive into a DJ culture.
Under the names of Kaoru Inoue and Chari Chari, he has created many musical works and remixes, and has performed at various indoor clubs and outdoor festivals to pursue possibilities of dance music through DJing.
On the other hand, he has also formed a minimal acoustic guitar duo called [Aurora Acoustic] with Daisuke Kojima aka DSK in order to expand the range of his musicality.
In 2014, he revived his alias [Chari Chari] as a live band, and in 2016, he released Chari Charis new EP [Fading Away / Luna de Lobos] on vinyl. It was the first time for them to release in 14 years after the last release of [Aurora EP], it gave rise to a huge buzz.
In 2018, he released an LP [Em Paz] from a label Groovement in Portugal. The LP is a celestial ambient album from the beginning to the end and it contributes a transforma-tive and harmonious listening meditation to the audience.
After many years of working as a DJ and producer in the Japanese dance music scene, Kaoru Inoue finally has released a new album under [Chari Chari] after 18 years, enti-tled [We hear the last decades dreaming], a collection of organic-electronic compositions filled with an exotic designs welling up in the middle of nowhere.
in recent years, his DJ style is not limited to dance music, as he connects various types of music such as Jazz, Ambient, Balearic, and Experimental with his unique aesthetic sense, and his compositions that are environmental and fourth world-esque, and return to the basics of electronic music, are gaining new acclaim.Even after his 30-year career, his sound is still radical, yet universal that bright up the scene.