Chie Mukai
Chie Mukai 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 Bigakko 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 Perspective Emotion mixed media arts festival in Tokyo. She has been frequently collaborating with Kenya Kawaguchi, Masayoshi Urabe, Seiichi Yamamoto since 2010.Discography
Solo
- Kokyu Improvisation CD CD
- Three pieces, solo improvisations LP
- Crossing CDR
- V.A., Somethings #1 CD
Ché-SHIZU
- Yakusoku wa dekinai LP
- V.A., Aura Music LP
- V.A., Welcome to Dreamland LP/CD
- Nazareth CD
- A Journey CD
- Live 1996 Suisho CD
- Glimmering Star LP
Collaborations
- East Bionic Symphonia, s/t LP/cassette
- Takashi Kazamaki & Chie Mukai, Kaze o aruku LP
- Marginal Consort, Collective Improvisation CD
- Chie Mukai, Jutok Kaneko, Christophe Charles, Ikuro Takahashi, Yoko Muronoi, The Planet I video/DVD
- Chie Mukai & Masayoshi Urabe, Dual Anarchism LP/video
- Chie Mukai & Seiichi Yamamoto & Lamones Young, s/t CD
- Chie Mukai & Rinji Fukuoka, L'energie d'existence CD
- Enkidu, Hasselt CD
- Chie Mukai & Gary Smith, Eight+ CD
Guest appearances
- Morio Agata, Norimono zukan LP
- Hallelujahs, Niku o kuraite chikai o tateyo LP
- Christoph Gallio, Cars & Variations / High Desert Songs CD
- Kengo Iuchi, Inugami to kachiku LP
- Kengo Iuchi, Hanagurui no yoru cassette
- Kengo Iuchi, Kuon no kane no ne cassette
- Nagisa ni te, On the love beach LP/CD
- V.A., Los Angeles Free Music Society 1973-1995：The lowest form of music CD boxset
- Kengo Iuchi/MSBR, Icht CD
- Maher Shalal Hash Baz, From a Summer to Another Summer CD
