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Toshinori Kondo 1948-2020 Was A Japanese Electric Trumpeter Who Is Highly Acclaimed Not Only In Japan But Also In Europe And The United States And In Africa. He Has Been Playing All Over The World With Musicians Of All Have Strong Personalities. He Has Been Involved In A Great Number Of Concerts And Recordings With Bill Laswell Bass John Zorn Saxophone Derek Bailey Guitar Herbie Hancock Keyboard Peter Brötzmann Saxophone DJ-KRUSH Hotei Taizo Guitar And Eishiba A Kouta Singer A Japanese Ballad Singer Accompanied On The Samisen To Name But A Few. Born In 1948 In Imabari City In Ehime Prefecture In Japan Kondo Moved To New York In 1978. Until 1983 He Has Been Playing All Over The World With Many Western Musicians. In 1984 He Formed A Band Called IMA International Music Activities In Japan And Went On A World Tour. The Band's Revolutionary Sound − Which Was Fusing All Sorts Of Musical Elements Of The 20th Century Such As Rock 'n Roll Jazz And DJing Etc − Gained Great Attention. IMA’s Music Was Used For Several Spot Commercials Of Well-Known Companies Like Shiseido And Asahi Breweries Ltd. In Japan And Kondo Acted In Commercials Himself. He Also Wrote Serial Articles For Magazines. He Disbanded IMA In 1993 And Moved To Amsterdam. He Has Been Pursuing And Sharpening His Own Musical Style Since And Started A Project Called "Blow The Earth". The First Place He Played The Electric Trumpet In An Outdoor Natural Environment Was In Negev Desert Israel In 1993. Then Kondo Played On The Andes Peru In 1994 Kudaka Island In Okinawa Japan In 1996 Ladakh Himalaya In 1997 Mt. McKinley Alaska In 2001 And Kumano Japan In 2002. He Acknowledges Three Elements Nature Spirit And Technology And Aims To Confront Nature. Some Of These Performances Were Shot And Shown On NHK As A TV Programme. Kondo Was Requested By The 14th Dalai Lama's Tibetan House New Delri India To Produce One Part Of The International Peace Festival Called "The World Festival Of Sacred Music " Held In 2001 At The Itsukushima Shirine On Miyajima In Hiroshima Japan. He Released An Album Called "The Yoshiwara" By Eishiba And Toshinori Kondo / Victor Entertainment In 2003 And Was Awarded Kikaku-Sho Best Project At The 45th Japan Record Award. In 2005 He Started A New Project Called “PIKADON Project” With Seitaro Kuroda Nobuyoshi Araki Tadao Ando Addressing The 60th Anniversary Of The Dropping Of The Atomic Bombs On Hiroshima And Nagasaki. He Released His Solo Album "Fukyo" 2005 From The Tzadik Label Run By John Zorn. In 2006 He Was Based In Two Cities Amsterdam And Tokyo And For The First Time In Twelve Years He Was Doing A Lot Of Shows In Japan. He Was Enthusiastic About Collaborating With Many Different Artists Regardless Of Artistic Genres. There Is No Doubt That In Listening To The Work Of Toshinori Kondo Who Continuously Searches For New Sounds One Can Sense New Possibilities For The Music Scene In The 21st Century. In April 2006 Toshinori Kondo Held Artistic Live Sessions With Tom Reyes From Los Angels USA An Abstract Painter. Their Heartfelt Communication Gave Birth To Sound And Painting Which Invited People Into A New World. read less