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Akibin Orchestra

This orchestra, led by Masafumi Ezaki, uses akibin (empty bottles) as wind instruments. Formed in November of 2004, the group carried out a Tokyo-Nagoya tour in early spring of '05. In June of '06 they took part in a concert at BRIDGE, Osaka: " -/: (Mattin, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Bertrand Denzler and Taku Unami) with Akibin Orchestra, Kazushige Kinoshita, and Tetsuya Umeda." In June of '07, also at BRIDGE, they organized a project nicknamed "Akibin Orchestra 100," featuring 100 people playing wind instruments.

The participating members in this festival are Masafumi Ezaki, Futoshi Moriyama, Bunsho Nishikawa, Masaru Suzuki, Atsushi Tsubouchi, Yuta Mori, Mika Takahashi, Satoshi Inoue, and Toshiyuki Tanaka.


Last updated: March 26, 2008

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