Motohiko Hamase

Motohiko Hamase is a Japanese bassist and composer, born in 1952. He played in Japanese jazz groups from the 1970s and works on fretless bass. From 1985 he made a series of solo albums, among them Intaglio (1986) and Notes of Forestry (1988). Motohiko Hamase left Keio University and from 1976 played in jazz groups led by Hidefumi Toki, Isao Suzuki, Kazumasa Akiyama, Yasuaki Shimizu and George Ohtsuka. He formed the experimental unit Lager, active from 1982 to 1985.