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Takaaki Masuko

An unconventional and versatile drummer, Takaaki 'Taki' Masuko remains best known as the source of the "astonishing centrifugal force” and “breathtakingly complex rhythms” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer) that made Ithaca, NY’s alt-rock-mountain-music unit The Horse Flies an internationally beloved cult band. Yet what initially brought Masuko to the US from Japan in 1979 was his desire to explore improvisation using orchestral and world percussion via Gunther Schuller's Third Stream program at the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC).

Senzai Ichigu

By Takaaki Masuko

Label: NativeWit Productions
Released: 2022
Track listing: Who Is Here?; How'd We Get There?; What Is This?; Why?; Where Are We Going?; Why Not?; When Is Now

The Last Laugh

By Sabana Blanca

Label: NativeWit Productions
Released: 2024
Track listing: Great Noise of the City (For Ruttmann’s Berlin, Symphony of a Great City); A Prince Has Arrived (For Reiniger’s Cinderella); Seeking the Foot (For Reiniger’s Cinderella); Circling (For Deren’s A Study in Choreography for Camera)

6th Sense Living Room

By Sabana Blanca

Label: NativeWit Productions
Released: 2023
Track listing: Touch the Symmetry; Taste of Nail; Hearing Mystery; Smell of Air; Ambiguous Vision

Sabana Blanca

Taki Masuko

An unconventional and versatile drummer, Takaaki 'Taki' Masuko remains best known as the source of the "astonishing centrifugal force” and “breathtakingly complex rhythms” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer) that made Ithaca, NY’s alt-rock-mountain-music unit The Horse Flies an internationally beloved cult band. Yet what initially brought Masuko to the US from Japan in 1979 was his desire to explore improvisation using orchestral and world percussion via Gunther Schuller's Third Stream program at the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC).

In Between

By Claire Ritter

Label: Zoning Records
Released: 1988