Takao

Takao is a composer whose debut album Stealth, thirteen short pieces drawing on ambient and new age music, was self-released on Bandcamp in 2018 with a cover he designed himself. EM Records later issued it on CD and LP. His writing draws on private study with the keyboardist Ichiko Hashimoto of Colored Music. Takao's second album, The End of the Brim (EM Records, 2025), moves from ambient drift toward songs with clearer melodies and rhythms, and the label links this to his admiration for the composers Ken Muramatsu and Toshifumi Hinata.