Sunao Anami, the well renowned Japanese electronic musician was captured on video at his Sept. 11th gig wearing the new Autodafeh “Hunt For Glory” T-shirt! Ok, Ok… so ADF did not make it to Kobe but the shirt did…
Sunao is no stranger to Sigsaly Transmissions, he is a good friend. Sunao recently composed an exclusive track for the Machines Against Hunger compilation.
Sunao started working with synthesizers when he was 13 years old. He has a huge knowledge of analog and digital synthesis and is a key figure in the field of wavetable synthesis. After playing in the post-new wave band CONTROLLED VOLTAGE in the early ’90s, he built his own Internet servers and started creating improvised electronic music. In 1998, his 1st album was released by the Belgian label, SubRosa.
In 2000, he participated in the Y.M.O. (Yellow Magic Orchestra) remix project “TECHNOPOLIS 2000-00″. Sunao has toured extensively in the past year, performing in Europe, the U.S. and Taiwan with other musicians and dancers, and around Japan.
He also performs twice monthly in a live studio webcast series entitled “Live from Far East” and has done over 70 such webcast gigs since 2002.
He runs CAVE Studio, his own label “electr-ohm” and the electronica/noise label and shop “C.U.E. Records” in Kobe.
And he appears with the legendary Japanese band AUTO-MOD at Kobe Underground Festival.
He is organizing series event at Apple Store in Osaka & Nagoya,it called “mindscapes”.
Be sure to check out his music and his shop for some great finds!
Official site, CAVE Studio
