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 (胡弓インプロヴィゼイション) CD (PSF, 1990) CD *Three pieces, solo improvisations LP (Siwa, 2000; CD, 2007) *Crossing CDR (there, 2004) *V.A., Somethings #1 CD (Last Visible Dog, 2007) Ché-SHIZU *Yakusoku wa dekinai (約束はできない) LP (zero records, 1984; CD reissue on Alchemy Records, 2001) *V.A., Aura Music LP (zero records, 1984) *V.A., Welcome to Dreamland LP/CD (celluloid, 1985) *Nazareth (ナザレ) CD (PSF, 1993) *A Journey CD (PSF, 1994) *Live 1996 Suisho CD (PSF, 1997) *Glimmering Star (瞬きの星) LP (Aleutian Retto, 1999; CD reissue on Alchemy Records, 2001)