Akira Sakata / Takeo Moriyama

Takeo Moriyama is a graduated Japanese jazz drummer and composer. He joined Yosuke Yamashita's trio in 1967 until 1975, with whom he made several international tours. In 1977 he moved to Nagoya and began leading his own groups. In addition to Yamashita, he played or recorded with Aki Takase, Akira Miyazawa, Fumio Itabashi, Masahiko Satoh, Peter Brötzmann, Nobuyoshi Ino, Takehiro Honda, Manfred Schoof and in the duo with Akira Sakata.

Since the late 1960s, Akira Sakata has been a constant figure in jazz and creative music scenes as an ever evolving and adventurous multi-instrumentalist and member of classic groups such as Yamashita Yosuke Trio from 1972 till 1979, Wha-ha-ha plus many of his own, like the Akira Sakata Mii or the Akira Sakata Trio and Orchestra, and Saibo-bunretsu (Cell fission). Apart from collaborating with numerous Japanese musicians, he regularly works with European and American musicians such as Paal Nilssen-Love, Johan Berthling, Jim O'Rourke, DJ Krush, Bill Laswell who has also produced Sakata's albums Mooko, Silent Plankton and Fisherman's.com, the last of which also featured Pete Cosey on guitar and which was reissued on Trost records in 2018.

Their duo album Mitochondria was recorded at Kashiwa Church Chiba (Japan) in 1986, and due to be released on Trost records in 2022.

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